---
name: "Karim Diané"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/karim-diane"
fi1m_id: "karim-diane"
imdb_id: "nm7871425"
tmdb_id: 1903019
wikidata_id: "Q137793874"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "26 April 2002"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T20:57:29.451901+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Karim Diané

## Identity

Karim Diané

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/karim-diane
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** karim-diane
- **IMDb ID:** nm7871425
- **TMDB ID:** 1903019
- **Wikidata ID:** Q137793874
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karim_Dian%C3%A9, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137793874, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7871425/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1903019

Actor. Born 26 April 2002 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 26 April 2002, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
- **Also known as:** Karim Diane, Team Karim
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karim_Dian%C3%A9, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137793874, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7871425/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1903019

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Star Trek: Starfleet Academy*](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-starfleet-academy.md) (76)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Karim Diané (also credited as Karim Diane) is an American actor and singer born on 26 April 2002 in Washington, District of Columbia. Of West African Mandingo descent, he first gained attention as a contestant on The X Factor USA in 2013. He built an online following under the name 'Team Karim' through weekly YouTube videos of himself singing in the shower.

After the competition, Diané moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting. He appeared in a recurring role as Blue in the series *StartUp* (2017) and as Kris Greene in two seasons of *One of Us Is Lying* (2021–2022). Other credits include *Princess of the Row* (2019).

Diané portrays Jay-Den Kraag, a Klingon cadet, in the Paramount+ series *Star Trek: Starfleet Academy* (2026). He is noted as playing the franchise's first openly gay Klingon character.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, tvinsider.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Star Trek: Starfleet Academy* (2026), Fi1m 76, as Jay-Den Kraag — [page](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-starfleet-academy.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Star Trek: Starfleet Academy* (2026), series, as Jay-Den Kraag — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-starfleet-academy.md)
- *One of Us Is Lying* (2021), series, as Kris Greene
- *Princess of the Row* (2020), as Randy
- *StartUp* (2016), series, as Blue

## Gallery

- ![Karim Diané](https://film.one/media/person/22871/gallery-0ceb94e57824.jpg) Karim Diané — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Karim_Diane_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/1280px-Karim_Diane_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Karim Diané](https://film.one/media/person/22871/gallery-ba86acea2efd.jpg) Karim Diané — Image via TMDB
- ![Karim Diané](https://film.one/media/person/22871/gallery-fbebfec58bfe.jpg) Karim Diané — Image via TMDB

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/karim-diane