Kim was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Dorothy and Wayne Donovan. She started taking dance classes at the age of four and continued studying dance into adulthood. She had her first acting class at the Pittsburgh Playhouse in the 9th grade, but mainly focused on dance over the next few years. After graduating high school she went on to study acting and voice at various schools in Orlando and Daytona Beach, Florida, eventually earning a BA in Theatre at the University of Central Florida. She minored in Creative Writing, and also attended the Southeast Center for Photographic Studies, concentrating mostly on Portraiture photography. She performed in shows at Orlando area dinner theaters, attractions, and theme parks for several years before moving to New York City. In Orlando she performed as a can-can dancer at Rosie O'Grady's in downtown Orlando, performed in award-winning year-round haunted attractions Terror on Church Street and Skull Kingdom, and performed in various shows and was a dance captain at Universal Studios. After graduating college she moved to NYC where she studied dance at Broadway Dance Center, and studied voice and improv acting at H.B. Studios. After doing a little bit of dinner theatre in NYC, she focused her attention on Film and Television, and began working on student films,feature films and TV shows. After 3 1/2 years in NYC Kim moved to Los Angeles where she now routinely performs with a comedy pirate troupe called Pirates for Hire under the direction of film-industry stunt coordinator Ted Shred and continues to pursue work in film and television