[2] Graf attended Ray High School and the University of Texas at Austin where she majored in theater arts.

[1] Graf relocated from Austin to Los Angeles and began auditioning for TV and film parts.

[4] In 2018, Graf was cast in the Netflix biopic The Dirt, as 80s TV star Heather Locklear, then-wife of Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee.

[6] Graf's subsequent roles have included a lead in the film Capsized: Blood in the Water, a survival film based on the true story of a yacht crew stranded in shark-infested waters;[7] and a guest role on the Netflix comedy series The Kominsky Method.

[8] She had been cast in a recurring role as Tara Locke, the mother of Kyle Abbott's (Michael Mealor) son on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, but had to be replaced due to a resulting scheduling conflict with Walker's shooting.