Katrina Grey is a Slovakian actress who is best known for the

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movie Hard Target 2 as Kay Sutherland, and the French movie

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. French movie

Early life

Katrina Grey was born as Katarina Greguskova in Ilava, Slovakia. Following her film debut, she created her stage name, Katrina Grey. At a young age she began studying at ZUS drama school where she was involved in various types of dance, taking singing lessons, playing the

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and performing in theatre. She studied grammar school at Gymnazium Ludovita Stura in

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, Slovakia where she received a scholarship through the Rotary club International to study in Mexico at Colegio de Chihuahua, where she continued performing in theatre. It is here she received the prize for Best Performance in the musical “Cats” in Spanish. After her exchange program in Mexico, she continued her studies at

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, where she received a bachelor and masters's degree in International Development Studies. Katrina Grey is fluent in English,

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and

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, advanced in Russian, in addition to her native tongue Slovak and

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. Katrina Grey loves adrenaline sports, writing, music and is also a certified scuba diver.

Career

Grey was first featured as a model in Honolulu Street Pulse's magazine in 2013 after being approached by photographer Tony Grillo in

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( Artistic Mindz Photography). Following this opportunity, she continued shooting TV commercials and movies whilst learning on-screen action fighting and combat. Her first taste of Hollywood was working with Blake Lively (Savages, Age of Adaline) in the psychological drama '' All I See Is You'', starring

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'') and directed by

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''). Grey made her on-screen debut in the short movie "Return of the Golden Lily", directed by Takashi Hirose and Magnus Thors, which was shot in

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. The film received the Experienced Vision Award for "Best Film" at the Thailand International Film Destination Festival 2014. Not long after this, she landed a role in Takashi Hirose's upcoming horror movie "BRUTAL" shot in

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starring alongside Naho Nakashima (''

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''). Grey made her American feature film debut in the movie ''Ghost House'' directed by Rich Ragsdale (

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), alongside

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, Halloween II,

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) and James Landry Hébert (''

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). The movie was produced by KNR Productions and Benetone Films. Having proven herself as a talented actress, Grey was cast in Hard Target 2 (2016), the sequel to

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's ( Universal Soldier,

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), '' Hard Target (1993)'', alongside

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and

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. Hard Target 2 is directed by

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, The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption) released by

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. In 2015, Grey appeared in an episode for a Travel Show for Slovak TV channel

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called Cestou Necestou shot in

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. No long after, Grey got a role in the French comedy

acting alongside Oscar winning actor

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( The Artist, The Wolf of Wall Street) and

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).Brice 3 is French comedy written and directed by

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'',

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) and is the sequel to the successful original film Brice de Nice. In 2017, Grey starred in the movie Locked Up directed by Jared Cohn (12/12/12,

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). Grey also appeared in the movie Troy 2 where she played

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directed by Tekin Girkin (The Incision, Peaceful Oblivion) starring Dylan Vox (Hercules Reborn, Dead 7) produced by Benetone Films . She also played the role of a German mother in the Indie short film called Milk produced by Korean female director Yu Jin Jang. In 2018, Grey played the role of “Green” in the episode Kobe, which is part of the sci-fi series called Future sex produced by H1 films for Blackpills and directed by MacGregor and Bruno Zacarias. Katrina Grey is also a

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. In 2020 Grey has written a psychological drama/thriller called Daytime Nightmare and wrote a horror/thriller movie called Hostel Paradise and starred in Malaysian zombie horror called Infeksi Zombie- Belaban Hidup. She is also a member of

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and

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Filmography

Film

Television

Screenwriter

References

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Grey, Katrina Living people Slovak actresses Mendel University Brno alumni 1991 births People from Ilava