As the Cold War heats back up around the world, FX’s entirely-too-topical The Americans has its series finale on Wednesday. And farther north in North America there’s some semi-related international intrigue afoot. Two twentysomething sons of real-life Russian spies who inspired the Emmy-nominated series are battling the Canadian government to keep their citizenship eight years after their parents were uncovered as “illegals” and deported.
A little background: Tim and Alex Vavilov were born in Toronto and moved as kids to Boston, where they went through school and eventually to college. Everything seemed to be hunky dory until their folks, “Donald Heathfield” and “Tracy Foley” — born Andrei Bezrukov and Elena Vavilova — were outed as being deeply embedded Russian spies. Their covert lives were the inspiration for The Americans, in which Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys star as a perfect-English-speaking Russian couple raising their two children under cover as one big happy U.
A little background: Tim and Alex Vavilov were born in Toronto and moved as kids to Boston, where they went through school and eventually to college. Everything seemed to be hunky dory until their folks, “Donald Heathfield” and “Tracy Foley” — born Andrei Bezrukov and Elena Vavilova — were outed as being deeply embedded Russian spies. Their covert lives were the inspiration for The Americans, in which Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys star as a perfect-English-speaking Russian couple raising their two children under cover as one big happy U.
- 5/28/2018
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
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