Kim Richards

About Kim Richards

Kimberly "Kim" Richards (born September 19, 1964) is an American actress.

Richards was born in Mineola, New York, the daughter of Kenneth E. (Ken) Richards (October 9, 1917 - April 1998) and Kathleen (Kathy) Dugan (Omaha, Nebraska, April 17, 1938 — died due to breast cancer in Palm Desert, California, March 2, 2002). The couple separated in 1972 and she later remarried. Her 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.

Her career began as a child in the early 1970s.. From 1970-1971, Richards starred as Prudence Everett in the television series Nanny and the Professor, with costars Richard Long, Juliet Mills, and David Doremus. She also starred in several Disney films, including Escape to Witch Mountain (1975), No Deposit, No Return (1976), and Return from Witch Mountain (1978). In the John Carpenter film Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), 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.