Nina Dobrev

Nina Dobrev (; born Nikolina Konstantinova Dobreva; Bulgarian: Николина Константинова Добрева; January 9, 1989) is a Bulgarian-Canadian actress. She is known for portraying the role of Mia Jones in the drama series Degrassi: The Next Generation and then Elena Gilbert on The CW's supernatural drama series The Vampire Diaries. Dobrev has also starred in several feature films, including the 2012 coming-of-age drama The Perks of Being a Wallflower, 2014 action comedy Let's Be Cops, 2015 horror comedy The Final Girls, 2017 action thriller xXx: Return of Xander Cage. 2Early life Dobrev was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, as Nikolina Konstantinova Dobreva, (Bulgarian: Николина Константинова Добрева) and moved to Canada at the age of two, where she was raised in Toronto, Ontario. She has an older brother, Aleksandar Dobrev. Her father, Konstantin Dobrev, is a computer specialist, and her mother, Michaela Dobreva (née Radeva), is an artist. Dobrev attended Vradenburg Junior Public School and J. B. Tyrrell Sr. Public School, where she started ballet and jazz classes, and competed in rhythmic gymnastics. She took acting classes at Armstrong Acting Studios in Toronto. Dobrev subsequently attended the arts program at Wexford Collegiate School for the Arts in Scarborough until her graduating yea