Katrin Gray

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Katrin Gray (born May 9, 1985 in Hanover as Katrin Schwarz , previously known as Katrin Felton ) is a German reality TV actress, photo model, underwater model and professional mermaid . She was first known as the beauty queen .

Life

In 2010, Gray married her then boyfriend Spencer Felton. Together they emigrated to Australia at the end of 2010 and lived on Ko Phuket in Thailand from September 2011 to April 2014 , where Gray worked as a diving instructor, model and mermaid. Their emigration to Australia was accompanied by the production company "99 Pro Media" and later broadcast in the format Goodbye Germany on the television station VOX .

From May to September 2014 Gray lived in Sharm El Sheikh and El Gouna in Egypt , where she worked as a teacher for diving, freediving and mermaiding .

The marriage to Spencer Felton fell apart. Gray moved to Perth, Western Australia in March 2015 . Here she teaches mermaid swimming and runs a shop where mermaid fins can be purchased.

In 2017, Gray was again accompanied by a camera team and on March 12, 2018 another episode of her was broadcast on Goodbye Germany .

Gray is a second married to Ian and lives with his son in Australia.

Career

Gray's career began in 2006 with her election as "Miss Lower Saxony" and " Miss Germany International ". In other beauty competitions she won the titles "German wedding model 2006" and " Queen of the world Germany 2007". In 2008 she took part in the Sea Star Discovery modeling competition and was named "Sea Star Girl 2008". After gaining her first modeling experience in Germany as Miss Germany International, the trained insurance saleswoman also appeared as a model in China, Thailand, Turkey, France, England and Australia from 2008. She was photographed as a photo model in the German FHM magazine and for an advertising campaign for the German football club Hannover 96 .

In 2012, Gray began working as an underwater model and professional mermaid under the stage name "Mermaid Kat". In August 2012, Gray opened her mermaid school in Thailand. Her first mermaid course was broadcast as part of the program Auf und Davon accompanied on the TV channel VOX. Gray and her trained mermaid trainers regularly teach mermaid courses in Germany. and Australia.

Gray works as an underwater model and mermaid for international clients. She acted in the German crime series SOKO Wismar in the episode The Little Mermaid (2015). In 2014 she played in the music video Mädchen vom Meer by the German rock and pop band The Knechtsand. As an underwater model, she posed next to wild dolphins, sharks and saltwater crocodiles.

In spring 2018, Gray wrote her first German-language book Mermaiding - Finally Mermaid , which has been distributed by Heel Verlag since February 2019 .

Underwater photographer Konstantin Killer won the Underwater Photo Grand Prix in the UW Fashion category in 2018 with a photo of Katrin Gray, which was taken at the TODI diving center in Belgium.

social commitment

Gray supports several social projects. In 2006 she was the choreographic director for “Beauties in motion”, a model contest for people in wheelchairs. Josephine Opitz, a participant, even quoted Gray a few years later in her book "I'm weightless on the catwalk". Gray was also a founding member of the shark protection association "Sharkchance", which has since been dissolved again. In Hanover she worked with mentally and physically impaired children and adolescents. Together with Mirko Slomka , ex-trainer from Hannover 96, she supported a typing campaign in 2009 to find stem cell donors for leukemia patients.

As a mermaid, Gray supports international campaigns for animal and environmental protection. For the international shark protection campaign “Facing Grace”, Katrin Gray was the first person to swim in a mermaid's fin with hammerhead and tiger sharks. In January 2019 and 2020, Gray appeared at the boot water sports trade fair in Düsseldorf in cooperation with the German Marine Foundation in order to make viewers aware of the pollution and overfishing of our seas. She has also worked with organizations such as Project Aware, Green Batch and Sea Shepherd.

For shark protection campaigns, Gray swam in mermaid fins in the shark tanks of the aquariums Underwater World Pattaya in Thailand, Aquaria KLCC in Malaysia and AQWA in Western Australia.

Trivia

In the summer of 2015, Gray was a contestant on the game show Hard to believe! and won 1000 euros after the prominent guessing team couldn't guess her profession as a professional mermaid.

In January 2016, Gray and former NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao were named the official mascots of Dream Cruises . Since then, Gray has appeared regularly as a mermaid on their cruise ships, teaching mermaid courses on board and giving presentations on marine conservation.

TV appearances (selection)

Filmography

year title role genre
2013 The Far Cry The Experience - Episode 2 Girl with tattoo on her back TV mini series
2014 Anything for Alice girlfriend French comedy film
2014 Project Moken herself documentation
2014 Girl from the Sea - The Knechtsand Mermaid Music video
2015 SOKO Wismar - Episode: The Little Mermaid Anne Lausick Crime series

Books

  • Mermaiding - Finally a mermaid

Web links

Commons : Katrin Gray  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. Hildesheimer Allgemeine, accessed on March 1, 2019: [2]
  3. a b c “Goodbye Germany” emigrant Katrin Gray: Wedding after 5 weeks - but then came the big disappointment. Retrieved January 24, 2019 .
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  5. Official website of the Mermaid Kat Academy in Australia: [4]
  6. Official website of the Mermaid Kat Sops in Australia: [5]
  7. TV-Now media library. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
  8. welt.de, [6]
  9. Figure 23 (right) , ntv.de, accessed on July 28, 2015.
  10. Models - ALL. Retrieved January 24, 2019 .
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  12. Backstage video photo shoot FHM: [8]
  13. hannover96.de: [9]
  14. Up and away, Thailand's most beautiful mermaids . tvnow.de
  15. Mermaids enchant Ishara from Bielefeld . stefan-gerold.de, April 1, 2014, accessed on July 28, 2015.
  16. Mermaid Kat Academy Australia: [10]
  17. Soko Wismar: The Little Mermaid . fernsehserien.de, accessed on October 19, 2016
  18. Youtube, music video Girls from the Sea : [11]
  19. KinoNews article. Retrieved January 24, 2019 .
  20. Professional mermaid swims with sharks and young mermaids . LR Online, March 2, 2015
  21. Please go down for a photo session with crocodile . Hildesheimer Allgemeine, from October 25, 2018
  22. Posing next to wild crocodiles . Taucher.net, October 23, 2018
  23. Bücher.de: [12]
  24. World Shoutout: [13]
  25. Beauty on Wheels: [14]
  26. RTL Nord report on SharkChance ": [15]
  27. RTLregional: Mirko Slomka and Katrin Schwarz fight cancer
  28. Shark protection campaign in Thailand in 2012 ": [16]
  29. Backstage Video Facing Grace Campaign ": [17]
  30. Boot Düsseldorf stage program Love your Ocean: [18]
  31. projectaware.org, accessed on March 1, 2019 ": [19]
  32. Facebook Event - Sea Shepherd Beach Clean Up ": [20]
  33. Pressreadzer.com, December 1, 2012: [21]
  34. Youtube, recording of the TV show Hard to believe: [22]
  35. ^ Mermaid ready to help you make splash . Phoebe Ng, The Standard. January 23 2017
  36. ^ Mermaid Kat Aboard Genting Dream . Cruise Industry News. January 7th 2017
  37. youtube.com, Miss Lower Saxony in the Missencamp [23]
  38. youtube.com, Miss Lower Saxony becomes Miss Germany International [24]
  39. youtube.com, Germany's toughest model competition [25]
  40. youtube.com, Model Katrin Gray does the bikini test [26]
  41. tvnow.de, Modeling Down Under [27]
  42. rtlnord.de, Job: Mermaid [28]
  43. tvnow.de [29]
  44. rtl.de, Katrin Gray works as a mermaid [30]
  45. kika.de, episode 192 "Unter Wasser" [31]
  46. butenunbinnen.de, My first time - self-experiment reporter [32]
  47. sat1regional.de, Mermaid fins made in Lower Saxony [33]
  48. ntv.de, These are the highlights on the "Boot" in Düsseldorf0 [34]
  49. wdr.de, broadcast on January 22, 2020 [35]
  50. ndr.de, broadcast on January 28, 2020, In underwater use for animal protection: "Mermaid Kat" [36]
  51. prosieben.de, broadcast on March 13, 2020: [37]
  52. fernsehserien.de, broadcast on August 8, 2020: [38]
  53. The FAR CRY Experience: Episode 2 [39]
  54. projectmoken.com [40]
  55. The Knechtsand [41]
  56. ZDF.de, Soko Wismar [42]
  57. heel-verlag.de: [43]