{"id":271176,"date":"2019-04-12T12:07:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T18:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1032231"},"modified":"2019-04-12T12:07:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T18:07:20","slug":"nina-dobrev-says-she-still-has-to-fight-for-roles-look-back-at-her-best-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/nina-dobrev-says-she-still-has-to-fight-for-roles-look-back-at-her-best-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"Nina Dobrev Says She Still Has to “Fight for Roles”: Look Back at Her Best Ones"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Michael Schwartz \/ Story + Rain<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Despite starring on a hit TV show for six years, Nina Dobrev<\/a><\/strong> says she still has to “fight” for acting roles.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old actress rose to fame in the late ’00s as the heroine Elena Gilbert on the CW series The Vampire Diaries<\/em>. She left the show, which had a cult following, after six seasons in 2015. She went on to appear in movies such as xXx: Return of Xander Cage<\/em> and the 2017 reboot of the 1990 film Flatliners<\/em>.<\/p>\n

When asked in an April 2019 cover interview for fashion and lifestyle magazine Story + Rain<\/a><\/em> if she would do a Marvel movie, Dobrev said, “I’ve auditioned for quite a few of them. I still have to fight for roles.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Here are some of Dobrev’s best acting parts over the years:<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Warner Home Video<\/p>\n

The Vampire Diaries<\/em><\/h3>\n

The actress played heroine Elena Gilbert, as well as antagonist Katherine Pierce, on the hit CW show for six seasons, from 2009 to 2015.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Epitome Pictures \/ The N<\/p>\n

Degrassi: The Next Generation<\/em><\/h3>\n

The actress played model, high school student and teen mom Mia Jones on the hit show on seasons six through eight, from 2006 to 2009.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Summit Entertainment<\/p>\n

The Perks of Being a Wallflower<\/em><\/h3>\n

The actress played Candace in the 2012 movie.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Twentieth Century Fox<\/p>\n

Let’s Be Cops<\/em><\/h3>\n

The actress played Josie in the 2014 crime comedy film.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Paramount Home Entertainment<\/p>\n

xXx: Return of Xander Cage<\/em><\/h3>\n

The actress played Becky Clearidge alongside Vin Diesel<\/strong> and Ruby Rose<\/strong> in the 2017 sequel to the action franchise.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment<\/p>\n

Flatliners<\/em><\/h3>\n

The actress starred in the 2017 reboot of the hit 1990 film.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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CBS<\/p>\n

Fam<\/em><\/h3>\n

The actress plays Clem, a woman moves in with her older half-sister and her fianc\u00e9, on the CBS sitcom, which premiered in January 2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Young Money Entertainment\/Cash Money Records<\/p>\n

Drake’s “I’m Upset” Music Video<\/h3>\n

The actress made a cameo in this 2018 clip.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Nowadays, Dobrev can be seen showcasing her comedic chops on the new CBS comedy series Fam<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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“I wasn’t looking to do a sitcom, and I realized how little I knew about sitcoms,” she told Story + Rain<\/em>. “I was a huge fan of Friends<\/em> and Will & Grace<\/em> and Seinfeld<\/em>, but never watched them with a critical eye. I didn’t know they were filmed in front of a live audience.”<\/p>\n

“My manager and agents said it’s basically a play you put on in a week, and it’s a challenging medium to do,” she continued. “I’ve always loved a challenge\u2014if it scares me, that’s an indication I should do it.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Michael Schwartz \/ Story + Rain Despite starring on a hit TV show for six years, Nina Dobrev says she still has to “fight” for acting roles. The 30-year-old actress rose to fame in the late ’00s as the heroine Elena Gilbert on the CW series The Vampire Diaries. She left the show, which had a cult […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-14 19:56:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}