Canadian actress Rachelle Lefevre poses in Toronto on Thursday, June 18, 2009. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

TORONTO - Montreal native Rachelle Lefevre has a devised plan to ensure she never loses touch with her Canuck roots as her star soars on the smash success of the "Twilight" vampire film and its upcoming sequel, "New Moon."

"When I moved to L.A. like, five years ago, I said to myself: 'My goal is to do a project on Canadian soil every year," the Montreal native said Thursday in an interview. "And so far I've managed it."

Boy has she ever.

The affable stunner, who plays the vengeful vampire Victoria in the films that are based on Stephenie Meyer's bestselling books, has been working on various projects in her homeland in recent months.

A year ago, she shot the CBC miniseries "The Summit" in several parts of Ontario (it airs next month); last month, she wrapped up shooting "New Moon" in Vancouver; on Friday she finishes filming "Casino Jack," starring Kevin Spacey, in Toronto; and in August she'll head back to Vancouver to shoot "Eclipse," the third film in the "Twilight" saga.

"It has to be a short turnaround because none of us are supposed to age," Lefevre said with a laugh about the tiny window between shooting "New Moon," set to open in November, and "Eclipse."

"So unless they want all these 20 year olds running around getting Botox, they're going to have to hurry up!"

Speaking of tiny windows, Lefevre's schedule was so packed on Thursday that she had to start her first interview while stylists applied makeup to compliment her ice-blue eyes and curled her trademark long, strawberry-blond locks.

"The more I work, the less sleep I get, the more hair and makeup I need," joked Lefevre, whose other film credits include the 2002 "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind," directed by George Clooney.

Multi-tasking is something Lefevre, a bilingual graduate of education and literature at McGill University, has mastered.

In high school, she says, she was known as the girl who was "always doing a million things at once."

Up next on her overflowing agenda is an appearance at Sunday's MuchMusic Video Awards.

Lefevre, 30, says she's excited about the show because she looked up to the female MuchMusic VJs as a child.

"They were like the hip, older sister," who is dating actor Jamie Thomas King ("The Tudors").

Her new pseudo brothers and sisters, of course, are her "Twilight" castmates, who include Kristen Stewart (Bella Swan) and Robert Pattinson (Edward Cullen).

"We're completely like siblings," said Lefevre. "Like we, you know, keep each other in line, we bicker, we make up, we're good friends, we love each other so much."