NINA DOBREVBIOGRAPHY

GYULSHEN TOPALOVA

Native name: Николина Константинова ДобреваBorn: Nikolina Konstantinova DobrevaJanuary 9, 1989Sofia, BulgariaNationality: Canadian and BulgarianEthnicity: BulgarianOccupation: Actress, model

Early life..Dobrev was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, as Nikolina Konstantinova Dobreva (Bulgarian: Нина Константинова Добрева), and moved to Canada at the age of two, where she was raised in Toronto, Ontario. She speaks fluent English and Bulgarian. She has an older brother, Aleksandar Dobrev. Her father, Konstantin Dobrev, is a computer specialist, and her mother, Mihaela Dobreva is an artist.

Dobrev attended J. B. Tyrrell Sr. Public School, where she started ballet and jazz classes, and competed in rhythmic gymnastics.Then, she attended the arts program at Wexford Collegiate School for the Arts in Scarborough, Ontario, and Ryerson University in Toronto, majoring in sociology. She left in 2008 to pursue her acting career. She took acting classes at Armstrong Acting Studios in Toronto.

Filmography:2006-Away from Her2006-Playing House2007-How She Move2007-The Poet2007-Fugitive Pieces2008-Repo! The Genetic Opera

2009-You Got That Light2009-Chloe2011-The Roommate2011-Arena2012-The Perks of Being a Wallflower2014-Let's Be Cops2015-The Final Girls

Television:2006–2009 - Degrassi: The Next Generation2007 - Young to Marry2007 - My Daughter's Secrets2008 - The Border2008 - Never Cry Werewolf2008 - The American Mall2009 - Degrassi Goes Hollywood

2009 - Eleventh Hour2009 - Merry Madagascar2009–2015 - The Vampire Diaries

Elena Gilbert/Katherine Pierce/Amara Lead role (133 episodes)2011 - Family Guy Various voices

Episode: "Trading Places"2011 - The Super Hero Squad Show Ellen (voice)Episode: "This Man-Thing, This Monster!"2014 - The Originals

Awards

2010-Teen Choice Awards Choice TV Breakout Star

2010-Teen Choice Awards Choice TV Actress – Fantasy/Sci-Fi

2010-Young Hollywood AwardsMaking Their Mark

2010 -Young Hollywood Awards Cast to Watch (shared with Paul

Wesley and Ian Somerhalder)2011-Teen Choice Awards Choice TV

Actress – Fantasy/Sci-Fi2012-People's Choice Awards Favorite

TV Drama Actress2012 -Teen Choice Awards Choice

TV Actress – Fantasy/Sci-Fi2012-San Diego Film Critics Society

Best Ensemble Performance2013-Teen Choice Awards Choice TV

Actress – Fantasy/Sci-Fi

2014 -People's Choice Awards Favorite On-Screen Chemistry (with Ian Somerhalder)

2015 - mtvU Fandom AwardsShip Of The Year

(with Ian Somerhalder)2014 - Teen Choice Awards

Choice TV Actress: Fantasy/Sci-Fi2016 -Young Hollywood

Awards Best Threesome (with Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder)

20152015 - People's Choice Awards Favorite TV Duo (with Ian Somerhalder)2015 - Teen Choice Awards

Choice TV Actress: Fantasy/Sci-Fi2015 - Teen Choice Awards

Choice TV: Liplock (with Ian Somerhalder)

Personal Life:

Dobrev is close friends with her fellow The Vampire Diaries cast members Paul Wesley, Kat Graham, Candice Accola, Hillary Harley, Kayla Ewell, as well as actresses Julianne Hough and Jessica Szohr.

IN SEPTEMBER 2009, DOBREV WAS ARRESTED

FOR DISORDERLY CONDUCT WHILE PARTICIPATING IN A PHOTO SHOOT OVER AN I-

75 BRIDGE IN SMARR, GEORGIA. SHE WAS

RELEASED FROM THE MONROE COUNTY JAIL THE SAME DAY AFTER PAYING

$1,000 BOND.

In mid-2010, Dobrev began dating her co-star from The Vampire Diaries Ian Somerhalder.

The couple split in May 2013.As of July 2015, Dobrev is dating actor Austin Stowell.