Kim Rodriguez

Rodriguez was born Kim Jerami Empasis Rebadulla on August 14, 1994, and was born and raised in Concepcion, Marikina.[1] Her parents separated when she was young. According to Rodriguez, she had the utmost affection for her grandmother, of whom she took care when she suffered a stroke and with whom she shared a passion in acting. Her grandmother died of natural causes in 2009, at the age of 73.[1]

Rodriguez began her career performing as an extra on television shows.[1] She got her first role in the teen oriented show Tween Hearts in GMA Network.[2]

By 2011 she played the role of Lourdes in the television series called Sinner or Saint which she got paired up with Derrick Monasterio which is also a part of Tween Hearts.

By 2012 she appeared in her very first film appearance in the movie called "Mga Mumunting Lihim" which stars Judy Ann Santos and Iza Calzado where she won as New Movie Actress of the Year in the 29th PMPC Star Awards for Movies.[3] After her film debut she got cast in the Philippine Remake of the high rated Korean drama The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince which she played the younger sister of Kris Bernal and the girlfriend of Sef Cadayona.

By 2013 she was given her very first big break via Kakambal ni Eliana where she played the lead role Eliana, a girl with a twin snake. She was paired up with her co-star in Tween Hearts Kristofer Martin.[4]

By 2014 She again reunited with her Kakambal ni Eliana leading man Kristofer Martin in Paraiso Ko'y Ikaw. In the same year she was cast as one of the lead roles in Strawberry Lane a story of four different young girls who form an unlikely bond in a detention center for youth offenders where they build up a strawberry lane as a reminder of their unending friendship. She is paired with Kiko Estrada.[5]

• Kim Rodriguez at GMA Network
• Kim Rodriguez at IMDb