Kat Graham

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 speaks French and Spanish, and some Hebrew and Portuguese. 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 actor and model Bryant Wood, with whom she has a son. Bryant is her business partner.

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.

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