Biography :
Nina Konstantinova Dobreva was born January 9, 1989 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Her mother is an artist, and her father is a computer scientist. She has one older brother. At the age of two she and her family moved to Canada, where she was raised in Toronto, Ontario.
Nina Dobrev speaks fluent French, English, and Bulgarian. 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. Then she entered secondary studies at Ryerson University in Toronto, majoring in sociology, before dropping out in 2008 to pursue her acting 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.
Nina Dobrev 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.
In April 2011, she was cast as Candace in the film adaptation of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, alongside Logan Lerman, Emma Watson and Paul Rudd. Shooting will begin in May of that year in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
In May 2001, becomegorgeous.com reported Nina Dobrev covers 'Seventeen' celeb fitness issue proudly showing off her bikini body. Wearing a colored bikini and a pink tank top, the lovely actress flaunts a toned figure saying she manages to stay in shape practicing yoga three or four times a week. The "Vampire Diaries" star also talks about feeling comfortable in her own skin and not being obsessed with her looks and she speaks also about boys and her career. Waiting for warm days to come, 'Seventeen magazine brings the first special fitness issue with beautiful Nina Dobrev posing for the cover. Inside the magazine you will also find gorgeous hunk Zac Efron flaunting his amazing abs.
The 'Vampire Diaries' actress, Nina Dobrev, shows off a nicely toned and tanned physique in a photo shoot for 'Seventeen', admitting she stays fit through yoga. "I do a lot of yoga. I practice yoga three or four times a week. It’s an escape for me," she told the magazine.
The lovely actress likes yoga so much as she could even become a yoga instructor. Well, if she would ever think of changing her career. "I could be a yoga instructor. I’m not certified, but I could do it. Once I did a class where the instructor didn’t show up, and I just went to the front and did it, and everyone followed. So I’ve done it before, and I love it," Nina says.
In the interview with 'Seventeen', Nina also reveals some secrets about her healthy lifestyle, feeling comfortable in one's skin, accepting yourself and staying confident, training with the cast and what she thinks of 'super-buff dudes'.
The 'Vampire Diaries' actress, Nina Dobrev, shows off a nicely toned and tanned physique in a photo shoot for 'Seventeen', admitting she stays fit through yoga. "I do a lot of yoga. I practice yoga three or four times a week. It’s an escape for me," she told the magazine.
The lovely actress likes yoga so much as she could even become a yoga instructor. Well, if she would ever think of changing her career. "I could be a yoga instructor. I’m not certified, but I could do it. Once I did a class where the instructor didn’t show up, and I just went to the front and did it, and everyone followed. So I’ve done it before, and I love it," Nina says.
In the interview with 'Seventeen', Nina also reveals some secrets about her healthy lifestyle, feeling comfortable in one's skin, accepting yourself and staying confident, training with the cast and what she thinks of 'super-buff dudes'.
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