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Nina Dobrev
Nina Dobrev (born Nina Konstantinova Dobreva, in Bulgarian Нина Константинова Добрева; January 9, 1989) is a Bulgarian-Canadian actress.
She played the role of Mia Jones, the single teenage mother on Degrassi: The Next Generation, from the show's sixth to ninth season.
She currently stars as Elena Gilbert and Katherine Pierce on The CW television teen drama The Vampire Diaries.
Early life
Dobrev was born in Sofia, Bulgaria and moved to Canada at the age of two, where she was raised in Toronto, Ontario.
She speaks fluent French, English and Bulgarian. Her mother is an artist, and her father is a computer scientist. She has one older brother. She attended J. B. Tyrrell Sr. Public School and Wexford Collegiate School for the Arts in Scarborough, Ontario. From a very young age, she showed great enthusiasm and talent for the arts—dance, gymnastics, theater, music, visual arts, and acting. Dobrev attended the Dean Armstrong Acting school where she was discovered by many different talent agencies in Toronto.
Elena Gilbert
Elena Gilbert is the series' protagonist. Suffering from the recent loss of her parents Elena finds comfort in Stefan Salvatore, a vampire. Jeremy is her brother, but later on it's showed that he is her cousin. Caroline and Bonnie are her friends (Bonnie is Elena's best friend) and Matt is Elena's ex, and in the beginning of the series Matt still cares about Elena.
As she is drawn to him she realizes that she also shares feelings for Stefan's malevolent brother Damon.
Elena soon discovers that she is the descendant and doppelgänger of Katherine Pierce, a evil vampire that shared her love for the brothers century ago.
Nina Dobrev
Nina Dobrev (born Nina Konstantinova Dobreva, in Bulgarian Нина Константинова Добрева; January 9, 1989) is a Bulgarian-Canadian actress.
She played the role of Mia Jones, the single teenage mother on Degrassi: The Next Generation, from the show's sixth to ninth season.
She currently stars as Elena Gilbert and Katherine Pierce on The CW television teen drama The Vampire Diaries.
Early life
Dobrev was born in Sofia, Bulgaria and moved to Canada at the age of two, where she was raised in Toronto, Ontario.
She speaks fluent French, English and Bulgarian. Her mother is an artist, and her father is a computer scientist. She has one older brother. She attended J. B. Tyrrell Sr. Public School and Wexford Collegiate School for the Arts in Scarborough, Ontario. From a very young age, she showed great enthusiasm and talent for the arts—dance, gymnastics, theater, music, visual arts, and acting. Dobrev attended the Dean Armstrong Acting school where she was discovered by many different talent agencies in Toronto.
Elena Gilbert
Elena Gilbert is the series' protagonist. Suffering from the recent loss of her parents Elena finds comfort in Stefan Salvatore, a vampire. Jeremy is her brother, but later on it's showed that he is her cousin. Caroline and Bonnie are her friends (Bonnie is Elena's best friend) and Matt is Elena's ex, and in the beginning of the series Matt still cares about Elena.
As she is drawn to him she realizes that she also shares feelings for Stefan's malevolent brother Damon.
Elena soon discovers that she is the descendant and doppelgänger of Katherine Pierce, a evil vampire that shared her love for the brothers century ago.