Rising Star Award Recipient: Kim Matula

Kim Matula, a Fort Worth native, has been living and acting in LA for 10 years. Her first job was a quick guest star on "How I Met Your Mother" but quickly booked a leading character on CBS’s “The Bold and the Beautiful”. She played Hope Logan on B&B for 5 years and got her first Daytime Emmy nomination. In that time she also filmed an episode of Jim Belushi’s crime comedy “The Defenders” and an indie film, “Dawn Patrol”.  After the tough decision to say goodbye to B&B, she went on to work on the Emmy nominated show “Unreal” as well as “Teachers”, “Rosewood”, and indie film “Maybe Someday" produced by none other than her B&B director, Cindy Popp. Kim has most recently starred in Fox’s sitcom "LA to Vegas”, a comedy about a misfit gang of cheap airline workers and “Fighting With My Family”, a film released in theatres just this February about the WWE produced by Dwayne Johnson and directed by Stephen Merchant.