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Graham in 2011, Featureflash / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Katerina Alexandre Hartford Graham
Place of Birth: Geneva, Switzerland
Date of Birth: 5 September, 1989
Ethnicity: * father – Americo-Liberian * mother – Ashkenazi Jewish
Kat Graham, also credited as Katerina Graham and Toro Gato, is an American actress, singer, dancer, model, and activist. She is famous for appearing on will.i.am’s track I Got It From My Mama . Her roles include the shows Hannah Montana , The Vampire Diaries , Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , and Trolls: TrollsTopia ; and the films The Parent Trap , 17 Again , The Roommate (2011), Honey 2 , Dance Fu , Addicted (2014), All Eyez on Me , Where’s the Money , How It Ends (2018), The Holiday Calendar , The Poison Rose , Emperor (2020), Cut Throat City , Operation Christmas Drop , Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie , Love in the Villa , and Tyler Perry’s Duplicity (2025).
She was born in Geneva, Switzerland, and grew up in California, U.S. Her father, Joseph Hartford Graham, is Americo-Liberian. Her mother, Natasha, is Jewish, from a family that emigrated from Poland and Russia. Kat was raised in her mother’s faith, and attended Hebrew School. She can speak Hebrew. Her maternal half-brother was born in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Americo-Liberians have Liberian ethnicity and African-American ancestry. Americo-Liberians trace their ancestry to free-born and formerly enslaved African-Americans, who called themselves Americo-Liberians, who immigrated in the 1800s to become the founders of Liberia.
Kat is married to her business partner Bryant Wood.
Kat’s paternal grandfather was Joseph Graham, a U.N. Ambassador, serving for 40 years in the Netherlands, Sweden, Romania, and Kenya.
Kat’s maternal grandmother was a Holocaust survivor.
Sources: http://clutchmagonline.com https://lamag.com