

She also was in an MTV movie called The American Mall on CTV. She starred in a number of Lifetime original movies. 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.

Modeling jobs led to commercials, which then turned into film auditions. While working on the show, she began dating her Vampire Diaries co-star Ian Somerhalder. She left in 2008 to pursue her acting career. Then, she attended and Wexford Collegiate School for the Arts in Scarborough, Ontario and Ryerson University in Toronto, majoring in sociology. Public School, where she started ballet and jazz classes, and competed in rhythmic gymnastic. She has an older brother, Alexander her father is a computer specialist and her mother is an artist. She speaks fluent French, English, and Bulgarian. Nina Dobrev was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, and moved to Canada at the age of two, where she was raised in Toronto, Ontario.
