Lori Loughlin’s First Movie Role Since Prison Revealed: She’s A ‘Genre-Defining Star’

Lori Loughlin volition beryllium backmost connected your TV screens successful the adjacent future. The 58-year-old actress volition prima successful the Great American Family TV movie Fall Into Winter, a romanticist drama that volition premiere successful aboriginal January 2023. This marks Lori’s archetypal TV movie relation since 2018.

“Lori is simply a genre-defining prima that I person had the grant to telephone a adjacent person and collaborator for much than 15 years,” Bill Abbott, President and CEO of Great American Media, said successful a statement. “We person a shared imaginativeness for creating meaningful and memorable movies that resonate with our passionate fans, and I look guardant to welcoming her backmost to Great American Family to anchor our 2023 wintertime programming slate.”

Lori Loughlin is returning to TV again with ‘Fall Into Winter.’ (Photographer: Garrett Lobaugh)

Fall Into Winter is acceptable to statesman accumulation connected October 23. In the TV movie, Lori volition play Keely, who is left aghast erstwhile her member sells his fractional of their family-owned, upscale candy store to his champion person from precocious schoolhouse (and her nemesis, Brooks) forcing a abrupt urgency to find transportation and communal ground. Keely has been wounded before; alteration is her caller nemesis. Brooks’ past is simply a reflector of Keely’s. He, too, has a fortress astir his heart. Fate brings the brace together. Might it besides connection caller beginnings?

This isn’t Lori’s archetypal clip appearing connected tv since the college admissions scandal. She notably reprised the relation of Abigail Stanton successful an occurrence of When Hope Calls: A Country Christmas, the When Calls The Heart spinoff. Lori primitively starred successful When Calls The Heart for 6 seasons earlier Hallmark Channel chopped ties with her pursuing the scandal.

Lori Loughlin successful ‘When Calls The Heart.’ (Everett Collection)

Lori and husband Mossimo Giannulli were arrested successful 2019 aft being accused of paying bribes to get their daughters, Bella Giannulli and Olivia Jade Giannulli, into USC arsenic portion of the unit team. Lori yet pleaded blameworthy and served a two-month stint successful prison. Lori and Mossimo besides paid $400,000 successful fines.

HollywoodLife learned EXCLUSIVELY successful 2021 that Lori wanted to commencement acting again “when the clip is right. “She’s acceptable to bash it due to the fact that she misses it and it’s her passion, but she besides feels similar much clip needs to spell by inactive for everyone to determination on. But that is her wide extremity successful owed time.”