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 Birth | 5th September 1989 |
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Age | 35 Years |
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Zodiac Sign | Virgo |
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Country | United States of America |
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Current City | Geneva |
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Birth Place | Geneva |
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Religion | Judaism |
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Nationality | United States of America |
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Citizenship | United States of America |
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Language | English |
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Reference | IMDB |
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Aliases | Toro Gato, Kat Graham |
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Education |
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Musicians Institute |
Instruments | voice |
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Occupation | television actor, film actor, singer-songwriter, dancer, record producer, voice actor, executive producer, philanthropist |
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