Lydia Hearst has a particular affinity towards the roles she plays in her acting career.

With many past projects, she starred in various horror and thriller films from a horror film like Cabin Fever 3: Patient Zero to supernatural films with Between Worlds and The Haunting of Sharon Tate.

In Lifetime Channel’s Psycho Sister-In-Law, Hearst expands her acting chops into a vengeful deranged woman in this thriller. Not to mention, it is a leading role for the actress rather than a supporting role.

Here’s the synopsis of the film:

Haley and Nick Downes are a happy, successful young couple pregnant with their first baby, but when Nick’s father dies unexpectedly, his estranged sister Zara suddenly shows up to town with a diabolical plan in store to make the baby and their father’s fortune her own.

The film also stars Brandon Eaton, Andrea Bowen, and Diora Baird.

ALSO READ: Ben Hickernell on Directing a Murder Mystery in What We Found [Exclusive Interview]

LRM Online exclusively spoke at the up-and-coming actress Lydia Hearst. We discussed the attraction towards genre roles and why she took this film for the Lifetime Channel. Also, we talked about some of her past roles and future expectations.

Hearst had a successful supermodel fashion career when she was discovered by fashion photographer Steven Meisel and graced the cover of Vogue Italia in 2004. At the 2008 Michael Awards, she was recognized as “Supermodel of the Year,” and as “Best International Supermodel” at the Glamour Awards later that year. For the past few years, she has transitioned into acting, in which she was honored in 2015 as “Best Actress” for her role as Chanel in Stealing Chanel at the International Film Festival Manhattan. Also, she received the “Rising Star Tribute” at the Napa Valley Film Festival later that year.

She has numerous supporting roles in Gossip Girl, Two Jacks, Mistresses, Cabin Fever 3: Patient Zero, and #Horror. On television, she had a reoccurring guest role as Pandora in SyFy’s Z Nation. She starred alongside Nicholas Cage in Between Worlds, and with Hilary Duff in The Haunting of Sharon Tate.

Psycho Sister-In-Law premieres on Lifetime Channel this Sunday, August 16 at 8/7c.

Watch the exclusive interview below.

Source: LRM Online Exclusive, Lifetime Channel