Katherine Marianne Sarafian (Armenian: Քեթրին Սարաֆյան; born January 27, 1969)[1] is an Armenian-American film producer.

[2] Katherine Sarafian, the middle of three children, was raised in San Leandro, California, by her Armenian mother Alice, Izmirian, who as active in San Leandro civic affairs, and Armenian father Richard Sarafian Jr., a pastor of the Saint Vartan Armenian Church of Oakland who died in 2009.

Sarafian's Armenian heritage and religious upbringing, because her father is a pastor, have been a central influence.

[5] Katherine Marianne Sarafian lives in nearby Oakland with her husband, visual effects specialist Meher Gourjian, whose production credits include work in Harry Potter[3] and whom she married during her six years of producing Brave.

[3][2] In 2013, for her work on Brave, she was nominated for "Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures" at the 24th Producers Guild of America Awards[6] and for "Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature" at the 11th Visual Effects Society Awards, which she won.