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What makes The Vampire
Diaries’ Nina Dobrev It-Girl material
Story Grace Libero
Photo courtesy of Solar TV
There is indeed no better timing for 21-year-old
Nina Dobrev to score her biggest role yet. Why,
it’s a bloodsucker-crazy world right now,
and she’s the lead star of The Vampire Diaries!
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The chosen one
As Elena Gilbert in this CW recreation of L.J.
Smith’s young adult fiction series, Nina
plays the role of a teen orphan who lost her parents
in a car accident and has undead brothers Stefan
(Paul Wesley) and Damon Salvatore (Ian Somerhalder)
fighting over her soul. But before you think the
show is some Twilight rip-off, Nina says,
“We have the vampire guy who falls in love
with a girl. That's just the pilot episode. I
hope people will wait and stick it out because
there's much more to it.” Admittedly a fan
of Twilight and True Blood,
Nina almost didn’t get the part, actually,
with the casting auditions in LA coinciding with
her filming of Chloe in Toronto. But perhaps fate
really whipped it up for her, because although
the leading lady is supposed to be blonde and
blue-eyed as depicted in the books, Nina sealed
the deal with her good acting skills.
The promising actress
Born in Sofia, Bulgaria on January 9, 1989, Nina
and her family moved to Toronto, Canada when she
was two. Growing up, she has displayed promise
in acting, dancing, singing, gymnastics and visual
arts. She attended the Armstrong Acting Studios,
where she met agents and got modeling and commercial
stints. Soon after, Nina’s working her charm
more behind the camera, bagging parts in films
like The Poet, Fugitive Pieces and
Away From Her and lead roles in TV movies
Too Young Too Marry, My Daughter’s Secret,
Never Cry Werewolf and American Mall
(which was also produced by the team behind
Disney’s High School Musical). She
also made a mark as Mia Jones, the single teen
mom, since the sixth season of Degrassi: The
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The active teen “I
think [my] dream was to be an actress, but I never
really thought it was going to happen. Now that
it's happening, it's incredible. But I do a lot
of other things, too. I'm not stuck in this little
world,” Nina quips. She’s petty athletic,
too, as her hobbies include volleyball, soccer,
swimming, wake boarding, snowboarding, rock climbing,
horseback riding and Moksha yoga. And as if she
isn’t busy enough, Nina is also into gymnastics.
She has, in fact, represented Canada in Aesthetic
Group Gymnastics in the 2005 Junior World Championships
in Plzen, Czech Republic and in the 2005 Senior
World Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark.
“I'm pretty independent, and I take
things as they are. I have a lot of aspirations.
I'm very determined, but at the same time, if
it doesn't work out, I'm not going to throw a
fit over it,” she shares. Armed with such
attitude, it looks like nothing’s stopping
Nina from making waves in and even out of Hollywood
in the years to come.
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