Kyle Richards gets another movie role in the LGBTQ romance The Holiday Exchange

It seems Kyle Richards wants to get into acting more, having shifted much of her focus in the career department to reality TV just before joining the cast of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills in 2010.

Variety reports Richards, 54, scored a role in The Holiday Exchange, an LGBTQ-themed holiday romance that also stars Taylor Frey and Rick Cosnett.

Frey wrote the script about a successful businessman struggling with a breakup, directed by Jake Helgren.

The story follows Wilde (Frey), a man who has just sold his business and is now single for the holidays. .

In their attempts to escape their misery, they all meet respective handsome locals in the form of Julius (Samer Salem) and Henry (Daniel Garcia), who will spice up their visits.

In the process, romance ignites in both sunny LA and the charming, snowy town of Brilfax.

For her role, Richards plays Wilde’s “vibrant and engaged mother, Lola,” according to the publication.

The cast also includes Camila Banus (Days of Our Lives), Nick Adams (Fire Island), Ashley Fink (Glee) and Kyle Dean Massey (Nashville).

Frey is best known to fans for her work on the supernatural horror film It: Chapter Two (2019) and the Italian comedy film Summertime (2016).

In recent years, it seems Richards is making a renewed effort to get back into the acting game, scoring three movie roles: Halloween Kills (2021), The Housewives Of The North Pole (2021) and Halloween Ends (2022). .

Richards began her acting career in 1974, playing Julia on the television series Police Woman and the hit NBC Western Little House On The Prairie (1975-1982).

In the 1970s, the Los Angeles native appeared in several television series, such as Flying High, Vega$, Fantasy Island, Time Express, and Carter Country.

On the film front, Richards portrayed Lindsey Wallace in the slasher film Halloween (1978), alongside Jamie Lee Curtis, which was followed by several made-for-television films.

She continued her acting career into the 1980s with more guest starring roles on TV, including CHiPs (1982), and a starring role in Down To Earth (1984-1987).

Acting state of mind: After seemingly putting her acting career on the back burner since joining the cast of The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills in 2010, Richards now seems to be making an effort to get back into movies in recent years

Movies: In recent years, Richards starred alongside Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween Ends (2022), as well as The Housewives Of The North Pole (2021) and Halloween Kills (2021)

Unique: The Los Angeles native has the distinction of being the only cast member of RHOBH to have appeared in all 12 seasons since its premiere in 2010

It was more of the same in the 1990s and early 2000s, with Richards appearing on Beverly Hills, 90210 (1999) and 7th Heaven (2003), and an extended role on the hit medical drama ER (1998-2006) that ran for 21 episodes over the course of several seasons.

But things would all change when she jumped into the reality TV world when she joined the cast of The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills in 2010.

Fast forward 13 years, and Richards has since earned the distinction of being the only RHOBH cast member to have starred in all 12 seasons of the Bravo show since its inception.

Between 2006 and 2021, with her RHOBH commitments taking up much of her time, Richards only had two film acting credits on her Hollywood resume: the Lifetime television movie Deadly Sibling Rivalry (2011) and the parody film The Hungover Games (2014), and two TV roles on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2012) and the soap opera Days Of Our Lives (2013).