How Long Was Nina Dobrev on The Vampire Diaries Before She Left?
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Nina Dobrev was already a big name in young-adult television before joining The Vampire Diaries after she played Mia Jones on Degrassi: The Next Generation and the TV movie Degrassi Goes Hollywood. The Canadian series, where she co-starred with other well-known actors and, of course, Drake, ended in 2015, but after Dobrev left it for The CW series, the show rebranded to just
Degrassi. Even though vampire romance dramas owned the early 2000s pop culture, The Vampire Diaries was an underdog, dismissed as a broadcast network True Blood or, more derisively, the show that tried to turn Twilight into a TV series. However, over Dobrev's six seasons on the show, The Vampire Diaries not only grew in popularity, but it also became one of the more complex and involved mythologies of its kind.
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