Kat Graham
The Vampire Diaries is the work most prominently associated with Katerina Alexandre Hartford Graham, and her noted involvement with it has drawn sustained attention to her as a television actor. The production represents the highest-profile credit in a career that spans multiple fields and media.
Graham was born on September 5, 1989, in Geneva, and holds United States citizenship. She received her education at the Musicians Institute, a grounding that connects directly to her work as a singer-songwriter, pop artist, and record producer. Her musical output spans the genres of contemporary R&B, soul, electronic dance music, and hip-hop, reflecting a range of influences across those forms. Beyond music, she has worked as a television actor, film actor, voice actor, dancer, model, executive producer, and philanthropist, establishing a professional profile that moves across disciplines.
Among her other noted works are Honey 2 and The Holiday Calendar, both of which appear alongside The Vampire Diaries as markers of her activity across different projects. Operation Christmas Drop is also listed among her noted works, adding to a body of credits that extends across her career in front of and behind the camera. Honey 2 remains one of the concrete works cited in connection with her name, and its place among her noted credits stands as a direct point of reference for her work as an actor.
Quotes by Kat Graham
I have to hear more live instrumentation, more band and more funk, and I don't hear enough of it, so I created it myself.
I'm somebody who listens to a lot of funk, a lot of James Brown, and I want to be somebody who contributes all that energy to the mainstream.
I think with girlfriends, you always want your girlfriends to make the decisions for themselves, not based on a boy, not based on anything other than, 'Is this what you want?' Is this you know what you want to do?' And that's real support to me.
When I moved to Atlanta, I felt like an outsider - away from my friends and family except for the LGBTQ community.
When I first started performing, the only community that truly got what I was trying to do was the LGBTQ community.
I think that with beauty, people jump to the end instead of starting from the beginning with a good lotion or prep.
I think Sephora is great; it's so accessible, and there are so many different palettes that you can get.
'Roxbury Drive' was the street I grew up on as a little kid, and it was the street that I first listened to records on, and where I actually really first fell in love with music.