Kim Jerami Empasis Rebadulla (born August 14, 1994), known professionally as Kim Rodriguez (), is a Filipino actress and model known for her role in ''

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'' 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.

Early life

Rodriguez was born Kim Jerami Empasis Rebadulla on August 14, 1994, and was born and raised in Concepcion,

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. 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

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and with whom she shared a passion in acting. Her grandmother died of natural causes in 2009, at the age of 73.

Career

Rodriguez began her career performing as an

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on television shows. She got her first role in the teen-oriented show '' Reel Love Presents Tween Hearts'' in

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. In 2011, she played the role of Lourdes in the television series called '' Sinner or Saint'' which she got paired up with

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which is also a part of Tween Hearts. In 2012, she appeared in her very first film appearance in the movie called '' Mga Mumunting Lihim'' produced by Joey Abacan of

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which stars

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and

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where she won as New Movie Actress of the Year in the 29th PMPC Star Awards for Movies. After her film debut she got cast in the Philippine remake of the high-rated Korean drama Coffee Prince, in which she played the younger sister of

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and the girlfriend of

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. In 2013, she was given her very first big break via ''

'', where she played the lead role Eliana, a girl with a twin snake. She was paired up with her co-star in '' Reel Love Presents Tween Hearts'' Kristofer Martin. In 2014, she 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 teenage girls who form an unlikely bond in a detention centre for youth offenders where they build up a strawberry lane as a reminder of their unending friendship. She is paired with

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. As of 2022, Rodriguez is now a freelance actress. Her career is currently being managed by

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talent. Diaz's roster of talents can both appear on

and

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Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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