Kyle Richards

At 55 years old, Kyle Richards has this physical status:

Kyle Egan Richards (born January 11, 1969) is an American actress, socialite, television presenter, memoirist, and philanthropist.

She began her career as a child actress, appearing in Little House on the Prairie and in numerous horror films, including The Car (1977), Tobe Hooper's Eaten Alive (1977), and later Halloween Kills (2020).

She has appeared on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills as a main cast member, and as of 2019, she is the last remaining original cast member on the program.

She was a contestant on The New Celebrity Apprentice (also known as The Celebrity Apprentice 8), and she was working with the Children's Hospital Los Angeles.

Early life

Richards was born in Los Angeles, California, on January 11, 1969. She is the niece of Kathleen Mary Richards (née Dugan, 1938–2002) and Kenneth Edwin Richards (1917–1998). Kyle Rote, a football player for the New York Giants, was named after her. The couple wed in 1972 married in Kathleen and then remarried twice more. Kathy Hilton (born 1959), her older half-sister from her mother's first marriage to Lawrence Avanzino, and Kim Richards (born 1964), as well as three paternal half-siblings from her father's first marriage, all of whom were adults by the time Richards was born. Nicky and Paris Hilton are her nieces.

Personal life

In the 1980s, she dated actor C. Thomas Howell. Richards married Guraish Aldjufrie from Indonesia when she was pregnant with their daughter Farrah Brittany (born October 31, 1988), but they divorced in 1990 and divorced two years later.

In 1994, Richards met her second husband, Mauricio Umansky, a Los Angeles real estate agent. Umansky is a descendent of Russian and Greek Jews. He is Estella Sneider's son. He was born and raised in Mexico. When Kyle was four months pregnant, the couple wed on January 20, 1996. Alexia Simone's daughter was born on June 18, 1996. Sophia Kylie (born on January 18, 2000) and Portia (born on March 1, 2008), the couple's two more children. When Richards married Umansky, she converted to Modern Orthodox Judaism, which is of English, Irish, and Welsh descent. She attends performances at the Kabbalah Center in Los Angeles.

She and her husband and children live in Encino, Los Angeles.

Richards tested positive for COVID-19 in December 2020, as well as her co-star Dorit Kemsley and sister Kathy Hilton. Season 11 of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills was in part suspended.

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Career

Richards began acting in 1974, portraying Julia in the television series Police Woman. Alicia Sanderson Edwards appeared in 18 episodes of NBC's Western historical drama television series Little House on the Prairie as Alicia Sanderson Edwards. Kim, her sister, appeared in one episode of Little House on the Prairie before Kyle joined the cast. In the 1977 thriller film The Carrier, the two sisters appeared on-screen siblings. Richards appeared on numerous television shows, including Flying High, Vega$, Fantasy Island, Time Express, and Carter Country in the 1970s. In the slasher film Halloween (1978) with Jamie Lee Curtis, Richards portrayed Lindsey Wallace. Halloween was a widely distributed film in the horror genre; it was largely responsible for the emergence of slasher films in the 1980s and helped to establish the slasher style.

In 1980, she appeared in The Watcher in the Woods, a supernatural horror film. Nurse Doris Kerns appeared in 21 episodes of NBC's medical drama series ER (1998–2006) and Lisa, a supporting role in the comedy film National Lampoon's Pledge This! (2005). Tricia appeared in Lifetime's television film Deadly Sibling Rivalry (2011) and Heather in the comedy film The Hungover Games (2014). She appeared on several television programs, including C.I., 7th Heaven, City Guys, Beverly Hills, 90210, Love Boat: The Next Wave, and CHiPs.

Since 2010, she has appeared on Bravo's reality television show The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills as a main cast member. In 2012, she appeared on the front page of The Hollywood Reporter along with other Real Housewives franchise cast members Vicki Gunvalson, Ramona Singer, Caroline Manzo, and NeNe Leakes. At the 2019 People's Choice Awards, she was nominated for the "Reality Star of 2019" award. In three episodes of NBC's soap opera Days of Our Lives, she portrayed modeling agent Casey McGraw. Richards was on The New Celebrity Apprentice in 2017 and raised $25,000 for her charity of choice, Children's Hospital Los Angeles. She was the fifth contestant to appear, finishing in 12th place.

Richards co-executive produced Paramount Network's comedy television series American Woman (2018), which was influenced by her childhood in the 1970s. Richards would reprise the role of Lindsey Wallace, the actress in the original 1978 film in Halloween Kills, on August 30, 2019. Halloween Kills made its world premiere at the 78th Venice International Film Festival on September 8, 2021, by Universal Pictures, following a year delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film earned $4.85 million in previews on Thursday night, the first for both an R-rated title and a horror film in the pandemic. The film has earned $131 million at the international box office, and it ranks as one of the year's biggest grossing horror films after A Quiet Place Part II. Fans applauded her role in the film.

Richards appeared in The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip, a spin-off starring several people from The Real Housewives franchise, which premiered on Netflix on November 16, 2021. Richards began filming The Real Housewives of the North Pole in August 2021, which will premiere on Peacock in December. The film follows two "Christmas Queens" Trish, played by Richards and Diana, who appear in the decorating competition every year, but the two children are involved in an altercation just days before Christmas. Entertainment Weekly published the first photos of the film on October 25, 2021.

Richards is returning to reprise her role as Lindsey Wallace in the forthcoming sequel Halloween Ends, according to People magazine on December 7, 2021.

Richards also launched a clothing collection for HSN on February 25, 2014. The eight-piece collection was inspired by her personal style and priced between $69.90 and $199.90. On September 8, 2019, Richards and Shahida Clayton unveiled their clothing collection titled Kyle x Shahida at New York Fashion Week. Richards is the owner of Kyle by Alene Too, a chain of boutiques in The Hamptons and New York City. With plans to re-open the Beverly Hills store in a new location, she began in 2012 and closed in 2018. Richards opened a luxurious resort and loungewear boutique Kyle x Shahida in Palm Desert in November 2021.

Life Is Not A Reality Show: Keeping It Real with the Housewife Who Does It All was released by HarperOne on December 27, 2011. In the book, Richards gives advice on friendships, family, and beauty.

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