MARITAL STATUS
Profession Actress
French nationality
BIOGRAPHY
Granddaughter of the late singer Jacques Higelin , young Kim grew up in a family of artists, her father, Kên , himself working in the industry. Very early on, his taste for the stage led him to improvise shows for those around him. A few years later, after her baccalaureate, a small job as a waitress allowed her to pay for drama lessons.
Kim Higelin honed her game in 2019 on several short films like Snowflakes , Solitude(s) and Scarlett . After a few appearances in SKAM France and Alexandra Ehle , Rodolphe Tissot directed her, during the fall of 2020, in the fiction Clèves , about the awakening to sexuality of an adolescent girl. The public discovers her in May 2021 in the TF1 series Plan B.
Her character, Lou, the uncomfortable daughter of Julie de Bona , ends her life, pushing her mother to call on a mysterious agency to return to the past in order to understand what she missed. We then see her in the detective TV film Of Honey and Blood (2022), led by Nicolas Gob , Léa François and Eva Darlan .
In 2023, Kim appears in an episode of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon . In this spin-off series centered on the character of Daryl and taking place in France, the young actress plays a survivor leader of a community of children. That same year, she found her most important role in the drama Le Consentement .
In this adaptation of the shocking book written by Vanessa Springora , Kim Higelin plays this last teenager when she meets, at the age of 13, Gabriel Matzneff, a renowned fifty-year-old writer. She becomes his lover, suffering more and more violently the destructive influence that this sexual predator exercises over her.
“With Le Consentement, I found myself facing something much stronger and bigger than me. I then decided to abandon my bearings to play Vanessa. I also felt the need to place myself in a bubble and to “focus solely on the text, months before filming” , explains Kim, continuing:
“I only surrounded myself with my partner, my best friend and Vanessa Filho during this preparation time, during which I worked on the script as well as on Vanessa Springora’s text. The answers to the questions I asked myself posed were in these writings. I was nourished by everything, from his childhood to his adulthood.”
Pascal Muscarnera
