Elena Gilbert

character: Elena Gilbert

played by Nina Dobrev

The Vampire Diaries are Elena Gilbert’s chronicles of life in Mystic Falls, Virginia, the small town home to more vamps and otherworldly creatures than a girl should have to count. Elena is a 17-year-old high school senior caught between a rock (vampire Stefan Salvatore) and a hard bod (his blood-sucking big bro Damon Salvatore). The undead brothers heart her in a crazy way. The Salvatores’ love is fueled (in part) by the mere fact that she’s the mirror image of Katherine Pierce, the fierce vamp who turned the brothers way back in 1864. In fact, Elena is Katherine’s doppelganger, so she’s a supernatural being in her own right.

Elena and her brother Jeremy were taken in by their Aunt Jenna after Elena’s parents, Miranda and Grayson, were killed during a mysterious car crash. Even more drama? Not only is E adopted, but her uncle John is really her birth father and her birth mother, Isobel, is a traitorous vamp sired by Damon. Plus, Elena’s bestie Bonnie is a witch. Yeah, that’s quite a handful for a teenage mortal to handle. Season 3 will bring a lot of changes because Elena is truly an orphan now: Both of her birth parents have died — Isobel by sunshine and Uncle John by a binding soul-switch spell (it’s complicated). Tragically, Elena also lost her Aunt Jenna in Season 2, who was killed by Original Vampire Klaus.

Fast Facts:

Grayson Gilbert isn’t Elena’s biological dad, but he was there for her birth — as the physician, Dr. Gilbert.
Uncle John Gilbert was Elena’s actual birth father. This would make his nephew Jeremy — you guessed it — Elena’s first cousin. She’s got an uncle-daddy and a bro-cuz!
In The Vampire Diaries novels by L.J. Smith, Elena was a blonde-haired, blue-eyed ice queen — sorta like Caroline Forbes of the TV series.

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