Nina Dobrev (born Nina Constantinova Dobreva; January 9, 1989) is a Bulgarian-born Canadian actress and model. 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.
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. She has an older brother, Alexander; her father is a computer specialist and her mother is an artist.
Dobrev attended J. B. Tyrrell Sr. Public School, where she started ballet and jazz classes, and competed in rhythmic gymnastic. Then, she attended and Wexford Collegiate School for the Arts in Scarborough, Ontario and Ryerson University in Toronto, majoring in sociology. She left in 2008 to pursue her acting career.
While working on the show, she began dating her Vampire Diaries co-star Ian Somerhalder.
Paul Wesley (Paweł Wasilewski, July 23, 1982) is an American actor best known for his roles as Stefan Salvatore in The CW TV series The Vampire Diaries and as Aaron Corbett in the ABC Family miniseries Fallen.
Wesley was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey to Polish parents Agnieszka and Thomas Wasilewski, and grew up in Marlboro Township, New Jersey. He has one older sister, Monika, and two younger sisters, Julia and Leah. In addition to English, he also knows Polish, having spent four months every year in Poland until the age of 16.
Wesley attended Christian Brothers Academy in Lincroft, New Jersey and Marlboro High School for a period during his high school years. During his junior year in high school, Wesley was cast in the soap opera Guiding Light as character Max Nickerson. He transferred from Marlboro High School to Lakewood Prep School in Howell, New Jersey because the school was able to accommodate his acting schedule. He graduated from there in 2000 and then started college at Rutgers University in New Jersey but left after one semester with his parents' support when more roles were offered to him, and he realized he could make a career out of acting.!
Ian Joseph Somerhalder (born December 8, 1978) is an American actor and model, best known for playing Boone Carlyle in the TV drama Lost and Damon Salvatore in the TV drama The Vampire Diaries.
Somerhalder was born and raised in Covington, Louisiana, the son of Edna, a massage therapist, and Robert Somerhalder, an independent building contractor. Raised Catholic, he attended St. Paul's, a private Catholic school in Covington. He embarked on a modeling career from age 10 to 13, and by the age of 17 he decided to go into acting.
In the summer of 2000, Somerhalder starred in the short-lived WB series Young Americans, a spin-off of Dawson's Creek. He played Hamilton Fleming, the son of the dean of a prestigious boarding school. In 2002, Somerhalder played bisexual character Paul Denton in Roger Avary's adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' novel, The Rules of Attraction, alongside James Van Der Beek, Shannyn Sossamon, and Jessica Biel.
In 2004, Somerhalder scored his breakthrough role when he played Boone Carlyle in the hit TV show Lost. Despite his character's death in the twentieth episode of the first season, Somerhalder returned to the role of Boone for seven more episodes between 2005 and 2010, including the series finale. Somerhalder was the first actor to be cast in a role for the series and the first character to die.
The Vampire Diaries is a supernatural drama television series developed by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec, loosely based on the book series of the same name written by L. J. Smith. The series premiered on The CW Television Network on September 10, 2009, and has just finished its third season, which premiered on September 15, 2011. The series takes place in Mystic Falls, Virginia, a fictional small town haunted by supernatural beings. The main focus of the series is the love triangle between the protagonist Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev) and vampire-brothers Stefan (Paul Wesley) and Damon Salvatore (Ian Somerhalder). As the narrative develops in the course of the series, the focal point shifts on the mysterious past of the town involving Elena's malevolent doppelgänger Katherine Pierce (Katerina Petrova), and the family of Original Vampires, all of which have an evil agenda of their own.
The pilot episode attracted the largest audience of any series premiere since the network began in 2006. During its course it maintained admirable ratings for a show that airs on a relatively new, small and not so famous network. The first season averaged 3.60 million viewers. The show initially received average reviews, but critics agreed that the series improved over the course of the season; the second season premiered to generally favorable reviews. The show has received numerous award nominations, winning a People's Choice Award and many Teen Choice Awards. On April 26, 2011, The CW renewed the series for a third season which began on September 15, 2011.
The Vampire Diaries is an American supernatural-fantasy horror television series. The series is based on a book series of the same name by L.J. Smith, and was developed for television by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec. The Vampire Diaries premiered on The CW on September 10, 2009 and was renewed for a second season that premiered on September 9, 2010. The first season was released on both DVD and Blu-ray formats in the United States and Canada on August 31, 2010.
The Vampire Diaries follows the life of Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev), who falls for a handsome century-old vampire named Stefan Salvatore (Paul Wesley). Their lives grow more and more complicated as Stefan's vicious older vampire brother Damon Salvatore (Ian Somerhalder) returns to town with a vendetta against his brother. However, Damon quickly becomes not only their greatest ally in their fight against evil, but he and Elena also seem to share an instant attraction, which she fights because of her true love for Stefan. The series is set in the fictional town of Mystic Falls, Virginia, a town charged with extremely powerful supernatural history. Other storylines revolve around the other inhabitants of the town, most notably Elena's younger drug-addicted brother Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen), Elena's best friend Bonnie Bennett (Katerina Graham), who discovers that she is a powerful witch, and their kind but insecure and at times slightly simple-minded friend Caroline Forbes (Candice Accola).
When I was born, shadow comin' into your life
The dark side of your sun coming to
Coming to
Everyday, sin is deeper in your heart and
Screaming souls, deeper and deeper
Come into me like a knife on my skin
But you can never die never die
Run away, take another falling love and
Make my way, fire burning my desire
Every tear you'll cry
Every day I'll die
With my blood you can survive
And we'll live forever into hell
Into hell
Into hell
Into hell
Into hell
With my blood now you are free
Like a scream, fly to me fly to me
Similar dreams, and we're flying like an angel
But we fall, always into hell
Into hell
Into
Run away, take another falling love and
Make my way, fire burning my desire
Every tear you'll cry
Every day I'll die
With my blood you can survive you can survive
And we'll live forever into hell
Into hell
Into hell
Into hell
She feels a presence in her soul
Drawing ever nearer
A voiceless calling
Through the night
Is becoming clearer
A touch of madness fills the air
And she hears the message
A sense of danger with a fear
And a spell controls her now
She wants to taste, burning desire
She's giving blood for the vampire
A shadow fell into the rom
Silence came upon her
Seduction burned in chemistry
And a passion drew her
Closer to forever dreams
In the eyes of danger
Temptation went to the extremes
Of an unrelenting night
She wants to taste, burning desire
She's giving blood for the vampire
Starving for another fix
Thoughts of blood evolve her
A victim of eternal greed
Living for the slaughter
Their love will burn forevermore
With the darkest of passion
Until she sees the rising sun
In the coldness of his soul
She wants to taste, burning desire
She's giving blood for the vampire
You can hear her through the night
Shall I tell you of the night
It was long ago
Late November and the snow
Just about to fall
And the moon was big and bright
Cold and sharp and clear
And the air was biting
Softly, swiftly down the road
Never made a sound
Someone came from far away
Someone tall and old
As I looked into his eyes
No reflections came
And I gave him bedding
Oh, my little rosary
How I miss you so
Never used you very well
Now, I never will
I am farther from you now
Than the two ends of eternity