Nina
Dobrev (born Nina Constantinova Dobreva; in Bulgarian, January 9, 1989)
is a Bulgarian-Canadian actress. She played the role of Mia Jones, the
single teenage mother, on Degrassi: The Next Generation, from the show's
sixth to ninth season. She currently stars as Elena Gilbert and
Katherine Pierce on The CW television teen drama The Vampire Diaries.
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Nina
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. From a very young age,
she showed great enthusiasm and talent for the arts—dance, gymnastics,
theater, music, visual arts, and acting. She attended J. B. Tyrrell Sr.
Public School and Wexford Collegiate School for the Arts in Scarborough,
Ontario. She attended Ryerson University in Toronto, majoring in
sociology. She left in 2008 to pursue her acting career. Text Via
