Kat Graham

Kat Graham
Name	Katerina Alexandre Hartford Graham
Birthplace	Geneva, Switzerland
Birth date	September 5, 1989 (age 34)
Job	Actress Singer Dancer
Played	Bonnie Bennett Emily Bennett
Status	Starring
Season	1 ▪ 2 ▪ 3 ▪ 4 ▪ 5 ▪ 6 ▪ 7 ▪ 8

“	Thank you to all the amazing fans for all your love.	”
	— Kat Graham on Twitter

Katerina "Kat" Graham (born September 5, 1989) is an American actress, singer, and dancer who portrays Bonnie Bennett on The Vampire Diaries. She has had small roles on several TV series including The O.C., Greek, and C.S.I. Kat had a lead role in the film Honey 2.

Biography

Katerina Alexandre Hartford Graham was born to Joseph and Natasha Graham on September 5, 1989, in Geneva, Switzerland. Katerina is of bi-racial heritage; she is half-Liberian from her father's side and half Russian/Polish from her mother's side. She speaks French, Portuguese, English, Hebrew, and Spanish. Katerina's father was a music executive and her grandfather was a United Nations Ambassador from Liberia. Afterward, her family moved to Los Angeles, California at the age of 4. She began working in commercials at the age of 6 and has appeared in ads for Barbie, K-Mart and Pop Tarts, among others. She has appeared as a background dancer for Missy Elliott, Pharrell Williams, Jamie Foxx, and Lil' Bow Wow. She has also appeared in the remix of Justin Bieber's song "Somebody to Love", featuring Usher. She also writes her own music. Her newest music single is called "Put Your Graffiti On Me" and was released in 2012. Kat Graham was engaged to Cottrell Guidry, but they split up after being engaged for two years.

Filmography

Year	Title	Type	Role
2020-2021	TrollsTopia	TV Series	Rhythm / Blues
2020	Operation Christmas Drop	Movie	Erica
2020	Cut Throat City	Movie	Demyra
2020	Emporor	Movie	Delores
2018-2020	Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	TV Series	April O'Neil/Student #2/April/Cute Yokai (voice)
2020	Fashionably Yours	TV Movie	Lauren
2019	The Knight Before Christmas	Movie	Abby Sutton
2019	Robot Chicken	TV Show	Alex
2019	The Poison Rose	Movie	Rose
2018	The Holiday Calendar	Movie	Abby Sutton
2018	Compassion Can't Wait	Short	Nurse
2018	How It Ends	TV Movie	Samantha Sutherland
2017	Where's the Money	Movie	Alicia
2017	All Eyez on Me	Movie	Jada Pinkett
2009-2017	The Vampire Diaries	TV Series	Bonnie Bennett
2015	Stalker	TV Series	Christine Harper
2015	Muse	Short	Muse
2015	Backstage Diaries	TV Series	Herself
2014	Addicted	Movie	Diamond
2012	Boogie Town	Movie	Ingrid
2011	Dance Fu	Movie	Chaka
2011	Black and Jewish (Black and Yellow Parody)	Short	Herself
2011	Honey 2	Movie	Maria Ramirez
2011	The Roommate	Movie	Kim
2010	When Vampires Don't Suck	Video	Herself
2010	Justin Bieber: Somebody to Love	Video	Herself
2008-2009	Hannah Montana	TV Series	Allison
2009	17 Again	Movie	Jamie
2008	Our First Christmas	TV Movie	Assistant Bernie
2007	Hell on Earth	TV Movie	Felicia
2007	Greek	TV Series	Dancer
2006	Forbidden Fruits	Video	Candy
2006	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	TV Series	Tisha
2006	The O.C.	TV Series	Kim
2004	Grounded for Life	TV Series	Laura
2004	Like Family	TV Series	Girl
2004	Johnson Family Vacation	Movie	Dancer #3
2004	Joan of Arcadia	TV Series	Angela
2003	Malcolm in the Middle	TV Series	Val
2003	Strong Medicine	TV Series	Ashley Collins
2002	Lizzie McGuire	TV Series	Posse Member #2
1998	The Parent Trap	Movie	Jackie

Appearances

Kat was originally credited as 'Katerina Graham' from Pilot to The House Guest. Season One Pilot The Night of the Comet Friday Night Bites Family Ties You're Undead to Me Lost Girls (credit only) Haunted 162 Candles History Repeating The Turning Point Bloodlines Unpleasantville Children of the Damned Fool Me Once A Few Good Men (credit only) There Goes the Neighborhood Let The Right One In (credit only) Under Control (credit only) Miss Mystic Falls Blood Brothers (credit only) Isobel Founder's Day Season Two The Return Brave New World Bad Moon Rising Memory Lane (credit only) Kill or Be Killed (credit only) Plan B Masquerade Rose Katerina The Sacrifice By the Light of the Moon The Descent (credit only) Daddy Issues Crying Wolf The Dinner Party The House Guest Know Thy Enemy The Last Dance Klaus (credit only) The Last Day (credit only) The Sun Also Rises As I Lay Dying Season Three The Birthday The Hybrid (credit only) The End of the Affair (credit only) Disturbing Behavior The Reckoning Smells Like Teen Spirit Ghost World Ordinary People Homecoming The New Deal Our Town The Ties That Bind Bringing Out The Dead Dangerous Liaisons (credit only) All My Children 1912 (credit only) Break On Through The Murder of One Heart of Darkness (credit only) Do Not Go Gentle Before Sunset The Departed Season Four Growing Pains Memorial The Rager (credit only) The Five The Killer We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes My Brother's Keeper (credit only) We'll Always Have Bourbon Street O Come, All Ye Faithful After School Special Catch Me If You Can A View to a Kill Into the Wild Down the Rabbit Hole Stand By Me Bring It On (credit only) Because the Night American Gothic (credit only) Pictures of You The Originals (credit only) She's Come Undone The Walking Dead Graduation Season Five I Know What You Did Last Summer True Lies Original Sin (credit only) For Whom the Bell Tolls Monster's Ball Handle with Care Death and the Maiden Dead Man on Campus The Cell (credit only) Fifty Shades of Grayson (credit only) 500 Years of Solitude The Devil Inside (credit only) Total Eclipse of the Heart No Exit Gone Girl While You Were Sleeping Rescue Me Resident Evil Man on Fire What Lies Beneath Promised Land Home Season Six I'll Remember Yellow Ledbetter Welcome to Paradise Black Hole Sun The World Has Turned and Left Me Here The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get (voice) Do You Remember the First Time? Fade Into You I Alone Christmas Through Your Eyes Woke Up With a Monster (credit only) Prayer For the Dying (credit only) The Day I Tried To Live Stay (credit only) Let Her Go The Downward Spiral A Bird in a Gilded Cage I Never Could Love Like That (credit only) Because I'd Leave My Happy Home For You I'll Wed You in the Golden Summertime I'm Thinking Of You All The While Season Seven Day One of Twenty-Two Thousand, Give or Take Never Let Me Go Age of Innocence I Carry Your Heart With Me Live Through This Best Served Cold Mommie Dearest Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me (credit only) Cold as Ice Hell Is Other People Things We Lost in the Fire Postcards from the Edge This Woman's Work Moonlight on the Bayou I Would for You Days of Future Past (credit only) I Went to the Woods (credit only) One Way or Another Somebody That I Used to Know Kill 'Em All Requiem for a Dream Gods and Monsters Season Eight Hello, Brother Today Will Be Different You Decided That I Was Worth Saving An Eternity of Misery (credit only) Coming Home Was a Mistake Detoured On Some Random Backwoods Path to Hell The Next Time I Hurt Somebody, It Could Be You We Have History Together (credit only) The Simple Intimacy of the Near Touch Nostalgia's a Bitch You Made a Choice to Be Good What Are You? The Lies Will Catch Up To You It's Been a Hell of a Ride We're Planning a June Wedding I Was Feeling Epic

Awards

Year	Award	Category	Nominated	Result
2010	Teen Choice Awards	Choice TV Female Scene Stealer	The Vampire Diaries	Nominated
2011	Teen Choice Awards	Choice TV Female Scene Stealer	The Vampire Diaries	Won
	Youth Rock Awards	Rockin' Actress TV	The Vampire Diaries	Nominated
2012	Teen Choice Awards	Choice TV Actress: Fantasy/Sci-Fi	The Vampire Diaries	Nominated
2013	Teen Choice Awards	Choice TV Actress: Fantasy/Sci-Fi	The Vampire Diaries	Nominated
2014	Teen Choice Awards	Choice TV Actress: Fantasy/Sci-Fi	The Vampire Diaries	Nominated
	Black Women in Film Association	Creative Award	Contributions in the industry	Won
2015	mtvU Fandom Awards	Ship of the Year (with Ian Somerhalder)	The Vampire Diaries	Nominated
	Teen Choice Awards	Choice TV: Scene Stealer	The Vampire Diaries	Nominated
		Choice TV: Chemistry (with Ian Somerhalder)	The Vampire Diaries	Nominated
2016	Teen Choice Awards	Choice TV Actress: Fantasy/Sci-Fi	The Vampire Diaries	Nominated
		Choice TV: Chemistry (with Ian Somerhalder)	The Vampire Diaries	Nominated
2017	Teen Choice Awards	Choice TV Actress: Fantasy/Sci-Fi	The Vampire Diaries	Won

Discography

In addition to her acting career, Graham is also a singer. In February 2012 Graham signed a recording contract with A&M/Octone Records which was marked as her first major label signing.

EP's

• The Remixes — July 26, 2011

• Against the Wall — May 29, 2012

1. "Put Your Graffiti On Me"
2. "Heartkiller"
3. "Wanna Say"
4. "Supa Dope"

• Wanna Say (Remixes) — October 30, 2012

1. "Wanna Say" (Fred Falke Remix)
2. "Wanna Say" (Michael Carrera Remix)
3. "Wanna Say" (Eeleye Remix)
4. "Wanna Say" (Steve Pitron & Max Sanna Remix)

• 1991 (The Remixes) — May 26, 2015

1. "1991" (Michael Carrera Legwarmer Remix)
2. "1991" (Båut Remix)
3. "1991" (Cities at Night Remix)
4. "1991" (JamLimmat Flower Power Remix)
5. "1991" (Old School Thuggin' at the Haçienda)

Albums

• Roxbury Drive — September 25, 2015

1. "1991"
2. "Off"
3. "Now"
4. "One"
5. "Run Away"
6. "Baby"
7. "Secrets" (feat. Babyface)
8. "World Is Mine"
9. "Star F*cker"
10. "Quit Ya"
11. "Low"

• Love Music Funk Magic — June 2, 2017

1. "All Your Love" — October 28, 2016
2. "Sometimes" — March 31, 2017
3. "Fool For Ya"
4. "Time = &"
5. "Compromise (Interlude)"
6. "Magic"
7. "Just Luv Me"
8. "Can't Get Enough"
9. "If Eye Could Get UR Attention"
10. "St Regis (Interlude)"
11. "What the Funk"
12. "A Lot of Werq (Interlude)"
13. "Koolaid Man"
14. "Call Da Police"
15. "Lover"

Throughout The Vampire Diaries Series

• "Only Happy When It Rains" (featured in The Sacrifice)

Singles

Year	Song	Album	Cover
2010	"I Want It All"	Non-album single
	"Sassy"
	"Cold Hearted Snake"
2012	"Put Your Graffiti On Me"	Against the Wall
	"Wanna Say"
2013	"Power"	Non-album single
2015	"1991"	Roxbury Drive
	"Secrets"
2016	"All Your Love"	Love Music Funk Magic
2017	"Sometimes"	Love Music Funk Magic

Trivia

• Her favorite actor is Daniel Day Lewis and her favorite actress is Helena Bonham Carter.
• Kat reveals to be a fan of couple Klaus and Caroline (Klaroline)
• Has been good friends with fellow Vampire Diaries co-star Michael Trevino for many years.

  

• She is best friends with Glee star Naya Rivera and co-star Candice Accola.
• She is a Virgo.
• She speaks English, Spanish, French as well as some Hebrew and Portuguese.
• She is a triple threat: Singer, dancer and actress.
• She has the same name as a Vampire Diaries character, Katerina Petrova, aka Katherine Pierce.
• She is close friends with Mac Miller.
• She and former co-star, Tiya Sircar were both in 17 Again, as Jaime and Samantha respectively.
• Her favorite episode is "The Reckoning".
• Before her initial release of EP's and first album, Kat jointly composed an album with Janis Ian. Though Janis is the only Artist that sings in this album.
  • This album has also been released on ITunes and is frequently confused by fans that it is not her music given the genre of 'Country' nor her voice performing the vocals.

External links

• IMDb
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