‘The White Lotus’ Star Haley Lu Richardson Posts Viral Poolside Book Club Update

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After appearing in films such as Split and After Yang, 28-year-old actress Haley Lu Richardson got her first taste of true Hollywood stardom after she starred in the second season of HBO’s hit series The White Lotus. And based on her Instagram account, she seems intent on keeping it.

Over the weekend, Richardson shared what might actually be the greatest bikini photo of all time on Instagram, where it’s currently racked up over 215,000 likes.

The photo — which Richardson simply captured “Book club” — is so much, in fact, that it’s a little too much for our website, so you’ll have to head over to Richardson’s Instagram to see it.

Richardson started in season two of The White Lotus as Portia. Set in Sicily, the second season of the Emmy-winning HBO anthology series also starred Aubrey Plaza (another favorite of ours), F. Murray Abraham, Jennifer Coolidge, Adam DiMarco, Meghann Fahy, Tom Hollander, Michel Imperioli, Will Sharpe, Simona Tabasco, and more.

Next up for Richardson is the film Love at First Sight, which is a romance film based on the 2011 novel The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight. Alongside Richardson, the film also stars Ben Hardy, Dexter Fletcher, Rob Delaney, Sally Phillips, and Jameela Jamil, and will be hitting Netflix on Friday, September 15.

In addition to The White Lotus, Split, and After Yang, Richardson is known for her work in films such as The Edge of Seventeen, Columbus, Operation Finales, The Chaperone, Support the Girls, Five Feet Apart, Unpregnant, and Montana Story, and TV series such as Awkward, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Your Family or Mine, Recovery Road, and Jane the Virgin.

If you want to keep up with all of Richardson’s latest career moves and poolside photos (and book club updates), make sure to follow her on Instagram, where she currently has over 2.1 million followers.