Vanderpump Rules’ Ariana Madix Lands Lifetime Movie Role After Tom Sandoval Split, Cheating Scandal
usmagazine.comMaking her move! Ariana Madix is upping her star power — and expanding her resume — in the wake of her split from Tom Sandoval.The Vanderpumps Rules star, 37, has landed a role in the upcoming Lifetime original movie Buying Back My Daughter, Deadline reported on Wednesday, March 22.The film, which also stars Meagan Good, centers around a mother named Dana (Good) who learns her daughter, Alicia, is being sex trafficked on an escort website and decides to do something about it.
Madix, for her part, will play a police officer named Karen, who helps investigate the case while navigating her personal connection to the story.Rodger Cross and Faith Wright have also been cast in the picture as Dana’s husband, Curtis, and daughter, respectively.
Filming is already underway on the project, per Deadline, but no release date has been announced.Madix — who began her career with 2008’s short film Swing Vote: What Side Are You On? — has acted in a handful of movies over the years, including 2019’s Dead End.
She most recently appeared on one episode of 2021’s Paradise City.The Florida native’s latest casting comes amid controversy in her personal life.
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