| Kyle Richards | |
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| Born | Kyle Egan Richards January 11, 1969 Hollywood, CA |
| Occupation | Actress and Television Personality |
| Years active | 1974-present |
| Spouse | Guraish Aldjufrie (1988-1992) Mauricio Umansky (1996 - present) |
| Website | |
| http://www.kylerichards.net/ | |
Kyle Egan Richards[1] (born January 11, 1969) is an American actress and television personality. She is known for returning to television with her sister, Kim Richards, on Bravo's The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
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Richards was born in Hollywood, California, the daughter of Sharon Kathleen (née Dugan; 1933–2002) and Kenneth Edwin Richards (1917–1998).[2] The couple separated in 1972 and Kathleen later remarried two more times. Richards' siblings are Kathy Hilton (her older half sister from her mother's first marriage to Lawrence Avanzino; born 1959) and Kim Richards (born 1964).[3] Nicky and Paris Hilton are her nieces.[4]
Richards began acting in 1975. She appeared in several episodes of the television series Little House on the Prairie as Mr. Edward's adopted daughter, Alicia Sanderson Edwards. Her sister, Kim Richards (of Witch Mountain fame and various other very popular Disney films), also appeared once on the series, playing Laura's friend Olga, a shy child with one leg shorter than the other, who gets fitted with a hand-made wooden shoe by Laura's father, which finally enables her to run and play normally with the other children.
Throughout the 1970s Richards guest starred in several television series and acted in a few horror films: The Car, Eaten Alive, and Halloween, in which she played Lindsey Wallace, one of the two children whom Laurie Strode babysits. In 1980 she appeared opposite Bette Davis and Lynn-Holly Johnson in the Disney children's horror film The Watcher in the Woods, playing a terrorized young girl. Most of her 1980s roles were minor, and included made-for-television, direct-to-video,] or other video work.
Subsequent roles Nurse Dori on the hit television series ER (1998–2006)-(21 episodes) and Lisa, a supporting character in the film National Lampoon's Pledge This!. She has also appeared in episodes of her niece Paris Hilton's reality series The Simple Life and My New BFF.
Richards appears in the Bravo reality series The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, which the first season aired from October 2010 through February 2011. She and her sister, Kim Richards, are both currently appearing in the show's second season still airing on Bravo with the rest of the cast.
She appeared in a new thriller film, Deadly Sibling Rivalry, as Tricia, a woman left inside a freezer in which she dies, by disturbed evil twins Callie/Janna, played by Charisma Carpenter.
Richards has been married twice and has four daughters ranging in age from 3 to 23.
Richards' second husband is Mauricio Umansky, a native of Mexico; the couple have three daughters: Alexia (born 1996), Sophia (born 1999) and Portia (born 2008). Richards has another daughter, Farrah (born 1988), from a previous marriage with Guraish Aldjufrie when she was only 18.[5] Richards, who is of Irish and Welsh descent, converted to Judaism when she married Umansky.[6][7]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1977 | The Car | Debbie | |
| Eaten Alive | Angie | ||
| 1978 | Halloween | Lindsey Wallace | |
| 1980 | The Watcher in the Woods | Ellie Curtis | |
| 1981 | Halloween II | Lindsey Wallace | Archival footage |
| 1989 | Curfew | Stephanie Davenport | |
| 1990 | Escape | Lydia | |
| 2006 | Pledge This! | Lisa | |
| 2011 | Deadly Sibling Rivalry | Tricia |
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