Kim Manning

Kimberley Fiona Manning (born May 7, 1960, in California), better known as Kim Manning, is an American TV presenter, actress and dancer who has developed her career in Spain.

Career Presenter She became popular in Spain through the game-show Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez, where she was one of the team of secretaries, a team of girls who co-hosted the show and did dancing and musical Broadway-like performances each episode. Manning became the secretary who did the highest number of episodes among all secretaries in the history of the show, 131 episodes in 4 seasons, starting on May 20, 1983, and ending on January 4, 1988. She became popular in Spain for the complicated choreographies she performed and for her outgoing and talkative personality when she spoke with the main host Mayra Gómez Kemp and the contestants. She eventually got the part of lead accountant secretary from November 9, 1987, being the only foreign accountant secretary in the show's running time. She is still one of the most remembered secretaries that appeared in the show.

In 1992, she co-hosted with Fernando Carrillo the daily magazine El show de la una in TVE-1.

Actress After returning for some years to America to study acting and doing some minor roles on Broadway, she returned to Spain to focus on her career as an actress, appearing in an episode of Farmacia de guardia and being her most renowned role in Manos a la obra, in Antena 3, where she played, from 1997 to 2001, Tanya, a polish worker who assisted Manolo (Ángel de Andrés) and Benito (Carlos Iglesias). That same year, in October, she participated in the Spanish talent show Desafío bajo cero, where she showcased her ice skating background, finishing in third place.

From 1992, Manning managed a restaurant named Cornucopia, located in Madrid.

She returned to America at the end of the 2000s. Nowadays, she resides in Phoenix, Arizona, where she works as an acting teacher for children at the Childsplay Theatre Company.

Filmography Herself: 1983-1988: Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez 1992-1995: El show de la una 2006: Desafío bajo cero

As Actress: 1992-1995: Farmacia de guardia as Alice. 1998-2001: Manos a la obra as Tanya. 2000: Punto de mira as Teacher. 2002-2005: Bellas durmientes as Rebecca. 2003: London Street as Mrs. Robinson 2006: The Cheetah Girls 2 as Lola Durán. 2015: Velvet