Kim Rodriguez
Kim Jerami Empasis Rebadulla (born August 14, 1994), known professionally as Kim Rodriguez (formerly Kim Komatsu), is a Filipino actress and model known for her 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. Early life. Rodriguez was born Kim Jerami Empasis Rebadulla on August 14, 1994, and was born and raised in Concepcion, Marikina. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Currently, Kim plays wide range of villain roles in drama anthologies such as " Wish Ko Lang" and  Tadhana. Filmography. Television Anthologies. Magpakailanman: Magkapatid na nagkapalit ng asawa || April