Contents
* 1 Early life
* 2 Career
* 3 Personal life
* 4 Filmography
* 5 Awards and nominations
* 6 References
* 7 External links
Early life
Dobrev was born in Sofia, Bulgaria and moved to Canada at the age of two, where she was raised in Toronto, Ontario. She speaks fluent French, English, and Bulgarian. Her mother is an artist, and her father is a computer scientist. She has one older brother. She attended J. B. Tyrrell Sr. Public School and Wexford Collegiate School for the Arts in Scarborough, Ontario. From a very young age, she showed great enthusiasm and talent for the arts—dance, gymnastics, theater, music, visual arts, and acting. Dobrev attended the Dean Armstrong Acting school where she was discovered by many different talent agencies in Toronto.[citation needed]
Career
Modeling jobs led to commercials, which then turned into film auditions. Shortly thereafter, she booked roles in feature films, including Fugitive Pieces, Away from Her, Never Cry Werewolf, and the television series Degrassi: The Next Generation. She also was in an MTV movie called The American Mall on CTV. She is currently starring in The CW's drama The Vampire Diaries, playing the dual role of Katherine Pierce, a vampire that the same brothers each loved while they were still human during the American Civil War, and Katherine's doppelgänger Elena Gilbert, a human who is caught between the same two vampire brothers.
She also had a minor role in the erotic thriller Chloe, theatrically released by Sony Pictures Classics on March 26, 2010. The film grossed $3 million in the United States theatrically and became one of the higher-grossing specialty films in the United States in 2010 (according to Variety, "$3 million is the new $10 million" for specialty films' box office in 2010).
In August 2010, Dobrev appeared in the opening sketch of the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards.
Personal life
Dobrev attended Wexford Collegiate School for the Arts in Toronto until her graduating year. She entered secondary studies at Ryerson University in Toronto, majoring in sociology, before dropping out in 2008 to pursue her acting career. In September 2009, Dobrev was arrested along with several of her Vampire Diaries castmates for disorderly conduct. The actresses were reportedly flashing cars passing under the Rumble Road Bridge in Forsyth, Georgia. The photographer, Tyler Shields, was fined $4000.
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Dobrev at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival
Year↓ Film↓ Role↓ Notes↓
2006 Repo! The Genetic Opera Teenage Zydrate Addict
2006 Away from Her Monica
2006 Playing House Shania
2006 to 2009 Degrassi: The Next Generation Mia Jones 2006–2009 (46 episodes)
2007 The Poet Rachel
2007 Fugitive Pieces Bella
2007 My Daughter's Secret Justine
2007 Too Young to Marry Jessica
2008 Mookies Law Rosebella Short film
2008 The American Mall Ally Shepherd
A singer, Keely Hawkes, sung for her as she had never had any previous vocal training
2008 Never Cry Werewolf Loren Hansett
2008 The Border Maia Episodes: "Articles of Faith" and "Blowback"
2009 Chloe Anna
2009 Degrassi Goes Hollywood Mia Jones
2009 Eleventh Hour Grace Dahl Episode: "Eternal"
2009 Merry Madagascar Cupid the Reindeer Voice only
2009 to present The Vampire Diaries Elena Gilbert/Katherine Pierce (Katerina Petrova) Lead Role
2011 The Roommate Maria
2011 The Killing Games Post-production
2012 Perished Jasmine Leon Post-production
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