Date of Birth: January 9, 1989
She may play an eternal damsel in distress torn between two vampire lovers on the TV series The Vampire Diaries but Nina Dobrev is taking a bite out of Hollywood and making people take notice. Born Nina Constantinova Dobreva in Sofia, Bulgaria, Dobrev moved to Toronto, Canada when she was two. As a teenager, she was heavily involved in gymnastics, competing in international competitions. From a young age, Dobrev was clearly a star in the making, showing a keen interest for the performing arts. She attended Wexford Collegiate School for the Arts in Scarborough before moving on to the Dean Armstrong Acting School, where she was discovered by Toronto-based acting agents. Dobrev started out in commercial modeling, which lead her to audition for film and television roles. In 2006, she landed her first film role in the Sarah Polley-directed drama Away From Her, about a man coping with the institutionalization of his wife, who suffers from Alzheimer's. That same year, she got her breakout role on the Canadian teen-soap Degrassi: The Next Generation as Mia Jones, an unwed teenage mother struggling to raise her daughter on her own. She was initially introduced as a minor recurring character but earned attention during a storyline involving the death of her first love interest, fan favorite, J.T. Yorke (Ryan Cooley). People liked what they saw and she ended up staying on the series for three seasons until 2009. Dobrev made her stateside debut in the MTV television musical The American Mall, capitalizing on the High School Musical craze before appearing in bit parts in major movies such as Chloe, directed by Canadian Atom Egoyan and the 2011 psychological thriller The Roommate. She catapulted into superstardom in 2009 when she won a lead role in the CW's bloodsucking drama, The Vampire Diaries, playing Elena Gilbert, an orphan caught in a love triangle between two vampire brothers. The role also required her to also take on the part of vindictive undead-baddie Katherine Pierce, and lead to her real-life relationship with co-star Ian Somerhalder.
Dobrev also stars in the coming-of-age drama, The Perks of Being a Wallflower alongside Emma Watson and Logan Lerman.
Movie Title / Year / Character
Let's Be Cops InfoLet's Be Cops (2015)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) stars as Candace
The Roommate (2011) stars as Maria
Arena (2011) aka "Deathgames" stars as Lori
Chloe (2009) stars as Anna
The Vampire Diaries (2009) - TV stars as Elena Gilbert / Katherine Pierce
You Got That Light (2009) stars as Girl
Degrassi Goes Hollywood (2009) - TM stars as Mia Jones
The Border (2008) - TV stars as Maia
The American Mall (2008) - TM stars as Ally
Never Cry Werewolf (2008) - TM stars as Loren Hansett
How She Move (2007) aka Bouge de la! (Canada: French title) stars as Tall Girl in Bathroom
The Poet (2007) aka Hearts of War stars as Rachel
Too Young to Marry (2007) - TM stars as Jessica Carpenter
Fugitive Pieces (2007) aka Syntrimmia psyhis (Greece) stars as Bella
My Daughter's Secret (2007) - TM stars as Justine
Degrassi: The Next Generation (2006) - TV aka Degrassi, nouvelle generation (Canada: French title)
stars as Mia Jones
Away from Her (2006) stars as Monica
Playing House (2006) - TM stars as Young Frannie
Repo! The Genetic Opera (2006) stars as Teenage Zytrate Addict
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