Nina Dobrev (born
Nikolina Konstantinova Dobreva,
Bulgarian: January 9, 1989) is a
Bulgarian-Canadian actress and model.
She portrayed
Mia Jones on the drama series
Degrassi: The Next Generation (2006–09), and then played the role of
Elena Gilbert on
The CW's supernatural drama series
The Vampire Diaries (2009–15).
She moved to Canada at the age of two and has lived in Toronto, Ontario
ever since. From a very young age, she showed great enthusiasm and
talent for the arts: Dance, Gymnastics, Theatre, Music, Visual arts, and
Acting! Modeling jobs led to commercials, which then turned into film
auditions. Shortly after, she booked roles in the feature films
Fugitive Pieces (2007),
Away from Her (2006) and the popular television series,
Degrassi: The Next Generation (2001), on CTV.
Since 2009, Dobrev has spent 10 months of every year living in Atlanta, shooting her 22-episode-per-season CW series,
The Vampire Diaries.
Treading in the scripted world of doppelgängers and the undead, Dobrev
deftly took on the highly dramatic coming-of-age story of an
innocent-at-first high school student named Elena Gilbert.
Over the
years, Gilbert fell in love with not one but two members of the
bloodthirsty Salvatore brood (while in real life, Dobrev dated Ian
Somerhalder, who played the older Salvatore brother, Damon). Gilbert
would eventually die, come back to life and become a vampire herself—and
a vampire premed student, no less.
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