Age: 20
TVD Character: Bonnie Bennett
Twitter: KaterinaGraham
Hometown: If you want to take things way back, you could call Geneva, Switzerland, Kat’s hometown. (She was born there on September 5, 1989.) But the quadri-lingual former model who speaks French, English, Spanish, and Portuguese grew up in Los Angeles after her family moved there when she was just 4 years old.
Why Katerina might look familiar: Because she’s been in all the places you don’t expect to see her: a Barbie commercial, the Zac Efron flick 17 Again, the remix of Justin Bieber and Usher’s video “Somebody to Love,” poppin’ tags on CSI: Las Vegas, on tour with the Black Eyed Peas, or asking “Don’t you wanna? Don’t you wanna-wanna?” as the Capri/Strawberry Fanta girl. (Are you gonna, are you gonna-gonna strangle us for putting that jingle back in your head?) You guessed it Katerina is that girl — you know, the one who’s everywhere. Ssnger, dancer, and Hannah Montana actress, this self -crowned “Sassy Girl” (have a listen to her “Sassy Girl” single and more on her MySpace page) is a — warning: cliché coming — classic triple threat.
A little something extra you ought to know about Katerina: Before she made her official move to primetime as Bonnie Bennett, Katerina (a three-time culinary school drop-out) shook what her mama gave her as a backup dancer for hip-hoppers Bow-Wow, Missy Elliot, and Pharell. And, lest you forget where she got that shimmy-shimmy from, she told you so when she sang the hook of Will.i.am’s “Songs About Girls (I Got It From My Mama).” Watch out for this Kat’s meow!
