Nina Dobrev is a Bulgarian-born Canadian actress. Her best-known television roles are Mia Jones in Degrassi (2001) and Elena Gilbert and Katherine Pierce on The Vampire Diaries (2009). Her film work includes Vielleicht lieber morgen (2012), Let's be Cops - Die Party Bullen (2014), The Final Girls (2015), xXx: Die Rückkehr des Xander Cage (2017), and Dog Days (2018).From a very young age, she showed great enthusiasm and talent for the arts: dance, gymnastics, theater, music, visual arts, and acting. Modeling jobs led to commercials, which turned into film auditions; she booked roles in the feature films Fugitive Pieces (2007), An ihrer Seite (2006), and the popular CTV television series Degrassi (2001), which led to The Vampire Diaries (2009), where she played the lead role for 6 seasons.Nina loves to travel and has often visited Europe for pleasure, as well as to compete internationally, representing Canada in Aesthetic gymnastics. She enjoys playing volleyball and soccer, swimming, rock climbing, wakeboarding, snowboarding, and horseback riding.Above all, acting is her passion, and she sees it as an adventure that has just begun; she believes that the journey and the characters we create along the way will help us understand ourselves.
