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Kim Richards | |
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| Born | Kimberly Ann Richards |
| Years active | 1970-present (acting career) 1980-1992 (news career) |
Kim Richards (born September 19, 1964) is a former American child actress.
Career
[edit]Richards was born in Mineola, New York, the daughter of Kenneth E. Richards (1917-1998) and Kathleen Dugan (1938—2002). The couple separated in 1972 and Kathleen later remarried. Richards' siblings are the actresses Kathy Richards (born 1959) and Kyle Richards (born 1969). Socialites Nicky and Paris Hilton are her nieces: Daughters of her sister, Kathy.[1]. When she was 4 years old, her and her family moved to El Centro, California to pursue her acting career. Richards graduated from Imperial High School in Imperial, California in 1983, then graduated from Imperial Valley College in 1985.
Her career began as a child in the early 1970s.[2] From 1970—1971, Richards starred as Prudence Everett in the television series Nanny and the Professor, with costars Richard Long, Juliet Mills, Trent Lehman and David Doremus. She also starred in several Disney films, including Escape to Witch Mountain, No Deposit, No Return and Return from Witch Mountain. In 1978, she also teamed up once again with Witch Mountain co-star Iake Eissinmann for the made-for-television movie Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell.[3]
In the John Carpenter film Assault on Precinct 13, she played a child who was murdered. She later starred in the short-lived series Hello, Larry and appeared as a guest on numerous episodes of popular American television shows including Diff'rent Strokes, Alice, The Love Boat, Little House on the Prairie, CHiPs, Magnum, P.I., The Dukes of Hazzard and The Rockford Files. During her time in El Centro, California, she worked at KECY-TV as a news anchor in the 1980s. She met her former Meatballs Part II co-star Jason Hervey while he went to the station in 1984 before getting ready for the movie Meatballs Part II.
While in her young adulthood, Richards appeared in the films Meatballs Part II, Tuff Turf and Escape. In addition, she also co-produced Escape along with then-husband G. Monty Brinson.[4] After 1990, Richards went into semi-retirement.
Return to acting
[edit]Richards came out of retirement in 2002 to reprise her role of "Tia" in the short film The Blair Witch Mountain Project, directed by former Witch Mountain co-star Iake Eissinmann.
In Race to Witch Mountain[5], Richards and Eissinmann made cameo appearances, playing a waitress and a sheriff respectively.[5]
Richards also made a brief appearance in the film Black Snake Moan.[2]
Personal life
[edit]Richard has been married twice. Her first marriage was to G. Monty Brinson, with whom she had one daughter, Brooke Ashley, born on February 21, 1986 in El Centro, California. Richards was then married to Gregory Davis, with whom she had two children, Whitney and Chad. Both marriages ended in divorce.
Richards also has a daughter, Kimberly, with former boyfriend John Jackson. She resides in Phoenix, Arizona with her 4 kids.
- ^ Paris Hilton's Bio at the Biography Channel Website
- ^ a b Word95 at IMDb
- ^ "Devil Dog: Hound of Hell (1978) - TV Horror Review"
- ^ Escape imdb.com entry
- ^ a b Hollywood Reporter Two 'Witch Mountain' vets return: Actors who played kids in original are back for the remake 29 April 2008 Retrieved 30 April 2008