Nina Dobrev

This is the 123rd post in our Celebrity of the Day series.



Nina Dobrev was born in 1989 in Bulgaria. She moved to Canada at the age of 2 and has lived in Ontario since then. From a young age she had a fascination and a talent for all sorts of arts from dancing to gymnastics to theater and visual arts. She attended the Dean Armstrong Acting School and it was here that she was discovered by agents.

She started off modeling and that eventually led to commercials. Then in 2006 she got her big break with roles in movies, made for TV movies and a recurring role on a television series. She has small roles in Away from Her, and Repo! The Genetic Opera.

She also got the role of Mia Jones in Degrassi: The Next Generation she started as a recurring role in season 6 then became a regular in seasons 7-8 and then by 9 she was limited to guest appearances.

She continued to take small roles in movies and lead roles in Made for TV movies but her only television role was on Degrassi. That is until 2009 when she was cast as Elena in The Vampire Diaries.

Though she had yet to be noticed for any of her film roles her television roles are likely to jump start her career if she proves to be a success on The Vampire Diaries.

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