Kat Graham

American actress and singer
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Katerina Alexandre Hartford Graham is an American actress, singer, dancer, and activist. She played Bonnie Bennett on The CW supernatural drama series The Vampire Diaries (2009–2017). Her film credits include The Parent Trap (1998), 17 Again (2009), The Roommate (2011), Honey 2 (2011), Addicted (2014), and All Eyez on Me (2017). In music, Graham has released two extended plays and four studio albums.

Graham was born in Geneva, Switzerland, and raised in Los Angeles, California, United States. Her father, Joseph, is of Americo-Liberian descent, and her mother, Natasha, was Jewish (from a family from Poland and Russia). Graham's father was a music executive and the godfather of two of producer Quincy Jones' children. Her paternal grandfather was a UN Ambassador, serving for 40 years in the Netherlands, Sweden, Romania, and Kenya. Graham disclosed in an interview that her father left the music industry to work as a journalist under his father for the UN. Her maternal and paternal grandparents were refugees from the Holocaust and Liberia, and she credits them as an inspiration for her work as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR.

Her parents divorced when she was 5 years old. She has a half-brother, Yakov, born in Tel Aviv, Israel. Graham was raised in her mother's Jewish religion and attended a Hebrew school.

Date of Birth5th September 1989
Age35 Years
Zodiac SignVirgo
CountryUnited States of America
Current CityGeneva
Birth PlaceGeneva
ReligionJudaism
NationalityUnited States of America
CitizenshipUnited States of America
LanguageEnglish
ReferenceIMDB
AliasesToro Gato, Kat Graham
Education
Musicians Institute
Instrumentsvoice
Occupationtelevision actor, film actor, singer-songwriter, dancer, record producer, voice actor, executive producer, philanthropist