Vampire Diaries: the real reasons for the departure of Nina Dobrev (Elena)

After making her acting debut in Degrassi: The Next Generation Alongside Drake and Shenae Grimes, Nina Dobrev rose to international star status when she landed the roles of Elena Gilbert and Katherine Pierce in Vampire Diaries. Freely adapted from the literary saga Vampire’s Diary by LJ Smith, the fantasy series – which recently made its comeback on Netflix – follows Elena Gilbert, a 17-year-old teenager, who tries to adapt to a new life since the death of her parents, who died in a car accident. car four months ago. The young woman finds comfort in her diary and with her two best friends, Bonnie Bennett and Caroline Forbes. Her life changes when she meets Stefan Salvatore, a mysterious newcomer, with whom she immediately falls under the spell, before meeting his older brother, the “evil” Damon Salvatore. It doesn’t take long for the high school student to discover their secret: they are vampires. For six years, Nina Dobrev enjoyed success with a young audience before making the decision to leave the vampire series.

“I had the adventure of a lifetime…“: Nina Dobrev left Vampire Diaries at the end of season 6

This is information that had the effect of a bombshell among many Vampire Diaries fans. In the spring of 2015, Nina Dobrev took to her Instagram account to announce the bad news to her millions of followers. “I spent a wonderful weekend in Lake Lenier, Georgia with the cast and crew of Vampire Diaries. I would like to be the first to tell you that we not only celebrated the arrival of the holidays, but also celebrated my departure“, she initially wrote. “It was always clear to me that Elena’s story would last six seasons. During his six years, I experienced the adventure of a lifetime. I played a human, a vampire, an evil double, an immortal, a doppelgänger who pretends to be a human, a human who pretends to be a doppelgänger. I’ve been kidnapped, killed, resurrected, tortured, cursed, switched bodies, died and died alive“, she continued on the social network. “I made the best friends I’ve ever had and met a family I’ll always love“. If fans have long thought that the Bulgarian-Canadian actress left on a whim, this is not the case. Nina Dobrev signed a six-year contract when Vampire Diaries started, so she always knew she would leave the show after season 6. “It’s been such a crazy and awesome adventure, and I’ve been surrounded by so many people that I consider family. I know this is an exciting new step for me, but it’s going to be so strange not being with them“, she confided to SELF.

Nina Dobrev: what has become of the actress since her departure from Vampire Diaries ?

After Vampire Diaries, Nina Dobrev focused on her film career. She notably appeared in the action film xXx: Reactivated alongside Vin Diesel, Samuel L. Jackson and Ruby Rose, which was a great success in theaters, earning more than $300 million in revenue for a budget estimated at $85 million. The actress then joined the cast of the sci-fi film Flatliners and comedy My one night stand, my ex and me, gone unnoticed in the cinema. Two years after his shattering departure from Vampire Diaries, Nina Dobrev made her comeback in the last episode of the eighth and final season of the series. After a series of feature films, the young woman surprised her millions of fans by returning to the small screen, more precisely in the sitcom Family, canceled after one season by CBS. This failure, however, did not prevent the actress from becoming the star of the Christmas romantic comedy, Love Hard, broadcast on Netflix. Nina Dobrev continued her collaboration with the streaming platform since she recently appeared in the casting of the film Gangsters by alliance.

Article written in collaboration with 6Médias