The ‘little secrets’ of Filipina actress Kim Rodriguez

Kim Rodrguez was born on August 14, 1994 in Marikina, Philippines. She is known for “Mga Mumunting Lihim” (Little Secrets, 2012) and Untitled Ruel S. Bayani Project.

ACTRESS AND MODEL: Her real name is Kim Jerami Empasis Rebadulla. The Filipina actress and model is known for her 2013 role in “Kakambal ni Eliana”, as a girl with a twin snake, and in “Strawberry Lane” where she played a boyish girl who got sent to a rehabilitation center for youth offenders.

BIRTHPLACE: Kim was born and raised in Concepcion, Marikina. According to her, she had the utmost affection for her grandmother, after her parents separated. Kim took care of her grandma after she suffered a stroke.

PASSION FOR ACtING: Kim said she shared a passion in acting with her grandmother, who died in 2009 at the age of 73.

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

TV SERIES: In 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”.

NEW MOVIE ACTRESS OF THE YEAR: In 2012 Kim 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.

REMAKE: 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 friend of Sef Cadayona.

HARD WORK: Kim works hard on her acting career big breaks, she believes, aren’t handed out to people that easily.

MORE ROLES: 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.

BEAUTY PAGEANT: Kim looks like someone who would do well in beauty pageants. Is she open to that possibility? She beams, “I get that a lot,” but added she’s not sure if it’s for her.

“I’VE ALWAYS WANTED TO ACT”: Kim always wanted to pursue acting. The teen actress, who idolizes Angel Locsin and Marian Rivera, replies, “I’ve always wanted to act — but, pursuing a career in show biz was more my grandmother’s dream than mine. I grew up with her, because my mom is based in Japan and estranged from my biological father.”

Kim Rodriguez

Kim Rodriguez

Kim Rodriguez

Kim Rodriguez

Kim Rodriguez

Kim Rodriguez

Kim Rodriguez

Kim Rodriguez