Followers of The Daring & the Lovely star Ashley Jones will quickly have the ability to see her in an upcoming Lifetime film The Woman Who Survived: The Alina Thompson Story. Premiering September 20, this installment of the “Ripped From the Headlines” sequence facilities on a 15-year-old performed by Brielle Robillard. An aspiring mannequin in Los Angeles in the course of the Eighties who will get entangled in a harmful net of a serial killer.
Alina sneaks off to attend an beginner picture casting name with out her dad and mom Carl (Sam Trammell) and Nancy, performed by Jones. It’s then she meets with up-and-coming photographer William Bradford (Steve Byers). Little did the younger lady know she was being lured in by a serial killer hiding in plain sight. He used his charms to usher in aspiring younger ladies like Alina into secluded picture shoots that finish in unspeakable violence.
As seen within the unique teaser shared first with TV Insider, William will get Alina on the hook with empty guarantees. He tells her that he spoke with an company in New York that was . “Perhaps we must always give them one thing just a little sexier. The empty guarantees continued. William stated, “You may have something you need. We simply received to get some higher pictures.”
Brielle Robillard and Steve Byers (Lifetime)
The predator poured it on by including the teenager could possibly be on the quilt of magazines. Issues look to get just a little dicey from there as he encourages her “to chop ties with the folks which might be holding you again.” Alina begins hiding issues from her mother and pop. Because of the protecting instincts of Carl and a sequence of fateful twists, Alina managed to outlive the harrowing ordeal and didn’t grow to be his subsequent sufferer.
Sadly, others weren’t as fortunate. Bradford was discovered responsible in 1987 of murdering two fashions and sentenced to life. He died whereas on dying row in a jail medical facility in 2008 of pure causes. The true-life Alina thanked the forged in a July Instagram submit for bringing her story to life.
Together with the onscreen position, Jones additionally serves as an government producer. The Daytime Emmy-nominated actress is not any stranger to Lifetime. Her credit embody A Trainer’s Crime, Lifeless At 17, Secrets and techniques from Her Previous, A Sister’s Revenge, The Secret Intercourse Lifetime of a Single Mother and Saving My Daughter. She labored behind the digicam directing The Good In-Legal guidelines. Cleaning soap viewers know Jones over the past 20 years on-and-off as Dr. Bridget Forrester. She additionally had turns as Megan Dennison on The Younger and the Stressed and Parker Forsyth on Normal Hospital.
Lifetime’s string of recent motion pictures kick off with A Husband to Die For: The Lisa Aguilar Story starring Keana Lyn Bastidas, Jon McLaren and veteran star Marilu Henner on September 13 and I Was a Youngster Bride: the Courtney Stodden Story with Holly J. Barrett, Doug Savant, and Maggie Lawson on September 27.
The Woman Who Survived: The Alina Thompson Story premiere, September 20, 8/7c, Lifetime