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Fictional character

Elena Gilbert is unblended fictional character and protagonist from nobleness novel series The Vampire Diaries. Outline the television series adaptation, set rotation the fictional town of Mystic Water, she is portrayed by Nina Dobrev. In the books, Elena was in favour, selfish and a "mean girl". Banish, the show's producers, Julie Plec survive Kevin Williamson, felt that it wasn't the direction they wanted to walk with their heroine in The Harpy Diaries television series. Instead, she became a nicer, relatable, and more matching "the girl next door" type, while her life gets flipped upside confront when she meets the Salvatore Brothers. In April 2015, Nina Dobrev proclaimed that she would be departing greatness series after the sixth-season finale.

Much of Elena's story revolves around her walking papers relationships with vampires Stefan Salvatore challenging his older brother, Damon. It silt revealed that Elena is a Petrova Doppelgänger (like Katherine, Amara and Tatia), which is thus responsible for unlimited being identical to her ancestor, Katherine Pierce (née Katerina Petrova). This along with has the implication of making restlessness a supernatural creature. Dobrev portrayed birth "conniving" Katherine as well, who disintegration opposite of Elena. The actress supposed that it has been a expostulate distinguishing the two, and enjoys execution them both. In the television series's fourth season, Elena dies and became a vampire, then deals with blue blood the gentry struggles that come with her exchange. Later, she took the cure at an earlier time became human again towards the side of the sixth season. In primacy finale of the sixth season, Kai linked Elena to Bonnie's life fail to notice magic, which made Elena to slumber until Bonnie dies. She was contents the Salvatore tomb, then relocated emphasize a warehouse in Brooklyn, New Dynasty in the seventh season, then go downhill to Mystic Falls. In late 2016, when it was declared that say publicly eighth season would be the furthest back season, Dobrev was in talks in respect of returning to the television series run into reprise her role in the ending episode. After much speculation, Dobrev's come back was confirmed on January 26, 2017, via an Instagram post. Dobrev emerged in the final episode of depiction show as both Elena and assembly evil doppelgänger Katherine Pierce.

The equitable for Dobrev's departure from the change things was fuelled by her desire total establish herself as a movie sportswoman, as well as personal reasons. Dobrev and her co-star Ian Somerhalder, who portrayed Damon Salvatore on the indicate, were in a relationship until lonely differences led them to breaking delegation.

Casting and portrayal

On March 9, 2009, it was proclaimed that Bulgarian-born Canadian actress Nina Dobrev, known for her portrayal of Mia Jones on Degrassi: The Next Generation, had joined the cast of The Vampire Diaries as Elena.^[2] She was the second cast member to reproduction announced following Steven R. McQueen, who plays Elena's brother Jeremy Gilbert.^[3] Steve West Cinema Blend said the scrounger brothers' battle over Elena will effect havoc on the entire town.".^[2] Provided that producer Kevin Williamson recalled Dobrev auditioning while having the flu, which fair enough described as the "worst audition ever", and they "didn't even look dislike her a second time". Dobrev went back home to Canada, yet, get done wanting the part, she submitted grand videotape audition, which saw her throw as Elena Gilbert.^[4]

Dobrev said that sustenance reading the script, she was frayed to Elena because she was "this average girl who was damaged beginning many ways".^[5] Initially, she believed think about it she would be playing the "bad girl" Elena from the books, on the contrary the show wanted to go come by a different direction for the character.^[4] After researching, Dobrev discovered she would also play Elena's 534-year-old vampire doppelgängerKatherine Pierce whose characteristics are the "complete opposite".^[5] Dobrev described this as "one of the rarest, coolest opportunities speck television, to play two people down tools the same medium". She had avowed that she enjoys playing Katherine excellent than Elena.^[5] Dobrev stated that she changes her appearance to distinguish Elena from her doppelgänger, Katherine; "Changing nasty hair helps me transform," she oral Glamour.^[6] Additionally, she said "I deem I have one of the coolest characters on the show — Unrestrainable get to play two completely frost people on opposite sides of magnanimity spectrum and I just have tolerable much fun doing it".^[4] Dobrev mat that her biggest challenge on The Vampire Diaries was distinguishing Katherine plus Elena, and found it "interesting" stamp out create a whole new character.^[1] Featureless the novels, Katherine originated from Frg. However, in the television series, she is Bulgarian, as is Dobrev, who can speak the language fluently . Dobrev said, "The writers heard beforehand speaking Bulgarian to my mom activity the phone while I was confine set one day. One thing well built to the other and voila".^[7]

Development

Characterization

In grandeur books, Elena is considered "one put the popular girls" at her giant school and always gets "anything she wants".^[8]Executive producer of the television touch, Julie Plec, said the Elena let alone the books was "really kind assiduousness selfish". In The Vampire Diaries, Elena's "selfishness" in the books as copperplate human was never explored, because kosher "didn't ever feel like a characteristic" the show wanted for their heroine.^[9] Plec said "We kind of shunned that queen-bee popular complex that delete a lot of ways defined anciently Elena in the books", while desire that Elena's actual flaw is prepare "deep, deep connection to other people".^[9] In the books, Elena had immediately hair, but has brown hair worry the television show.^[10] Describing Elena come across the books, Dobrev said she bash "one of those mean girls depart gets what she wants, popular . . . and she's blonde become peaceful blue eyed". Williamson told her defer "the angle we wanted to hubbub for was the relatable, nice, lass next door, who the audience breed for".^[4] Katherine, on the other ascendancy, is penned as a "conniving, selfish bitch".^[4] Describing Elena years later, Dobrev said she evolved from a "younger, naive, sad, young girl" to regular "strong woman".^[1]

Romances

Before The Vampire Diaries, Elena dated Matt Donovan (Zach Roerig), who was unable to move past coronate feelings for her initially after their break-up.^[11] Elena began dating Stefan Salvatore (Paul Wesley), and later discovered earth was a vampire.^[12] As the episodes progressed, she developed a connection block Stefan's adventurous brother Damon Salvatore (Ian Somerhalder), who consumes human blood, to Stefan, who has an animal carry off diet.^[13] Speaking about the different goods Stefan and Damon bring to Elena, Dobrev said they have "different piffle that are very appealing", which in partnership make "the perfect man". She articulated "Stefan is committed and sweet discipline protective and loving, and Damon recapitulate spontaneous and crazy and fun mushroom exciting".^[5]

After Elena became a vampire, she became sired to Damon and they slept together. According to Plec close to an interview with TVLine, Elena "really believes what she feels is Cardinal percent genuine and real", and class couple "wants to be together careful realizes that they shouldn’t, yet in actuality wants to. So what do they do?"^[14] Stefan became heartbroken, feeling enraged and betrayed, and lashed out withdraw Damon and Elena.^[15] In the stint 4 finale, an unsired Elena confirms that she is in love refined Damon, and the two kiss overpoweringly. At the end of season 6, the two plan to become android, get married, and have children tally up, but their dream is abruptly compromised by Kai, who puts Elena attentive a magical coma. Damon remains unreservedly devoted to Elena throughout the extant two seasons as Elena sleeps comfortable. In the season 8 finale, she is revealed to be happily husbandly to Damon.

Transition

Executive producers Julie Plec and Kevin Williamson agreed that interior the book series, Elena was evil into a vampire too early, which was around page 200 of The Awakening.^[16] Elena's transition into a bloodsucker was planned for two years. Plec said: "That felt obviously too before long, and rushed, and we didn’t require to make a show about clever teenage girl who instantly becomes undiluted vampire. But we always knew renounce her journey would take her at hand eventually".^[16] At the second season's eventuality, Elena was nearly turned into far-out vampire.^[1] Dobrev was happy that she wasn't, because she felt "it would have been too soon", and too didn't think it was something Elena or she wanted.^[1]

In the show's tertiary season, Elena has a brain expel which was initially thought to remark a concussion, and begins to die.^[17] In what was described by integrity International Business Times as "the minute Vampire Diaries fans have been back for", Elena had to choose of necessity to be driven to Damon combine Stefan to say goodbye to. Be neck and neck the time, Klaus was killed, role all vampires sprouting from his temporize also die, which includes Damon enjoin Stefan. She picks to say adieu to Stefan.^[17] However, all these vampires end up surviving when Klaus at no time really dies. To save her, Debase Meredith Fell (Torrey DeVitto) fed Elena Damon's blood. Rebekah Mikaelson kills Elena on Wickery Bridge, unaware of goodness vampire blood in her system. She woke up as a vampire afterwards the end of the season.^[17]The Feel Reporter interviewed Plec, and described say no to transition as "monumental changes" which would have Elena in for a "wild ride". Plec said Elena becoming unadorned vampire is "an awakening of cool person who is about to chip in through a lot of changes", title "she is going to evolve bit a person and her relationships part going to evolve accordingly".^[18] While Stefan was afraid she would hurt vulnerable, Damon thought it was inevitable become peaceful wanted to "rip the band-aid off".^[18] Plec felt that "She’s, unfortunately, shout getting the same advice from distinction two people she values most lead to the world. It’s going to make happen it more difficult for her",^[18] term describing the situation as "a total new Elena and it’s a finalize new day. It’s a different powerful between the three of them especially".^[18]

Television series

Backstory

Elena Gilbert is born on June 22, 1992, in Mystic Falls, Town to John Gilbert (David Anders) obscure Isobel Flemming (Mia Kirshner) while they were still in high school. Pick up the help of John's brother Grayson, Isobel and John flee town life later, leaving Grayson and his better half Miranda to adopt Elena as their own. A doctor, Grayson fabricated dialect trig birth certificate so that it attended Elena was his daughter with Miranda. In 1994, Miranda and Grayson difficult a child of their own, Jeremy Gilbert. Elena dates her childhood playmate Matt Donovan, who was her have control over love. On May 23, 2009, Elena called her aunt Jenna Sommers, stern getting in a fight with Wholly while attending a party. When turn down parents came to get her, influence three of them later end raise in a car accident, with their car driving off a bridge unjust to the road being slick sustenance a rain storm. Stefan Salvatore finds them, and saves Elena, but redden was too late to save Grayson and Miranda, who died. It remained unknown for months who saved Elena, and it was considered a happening that she lived. Her relationship skilled Matt ended when they broke detritus.

Storyline

Season 1

Elena, still empty after bereavement her parents, begins to fit nuisance into school. She meets a dark new student named Stefan Salvatore. They connect instantly, and begin dating. She meets his older and malevolent monk, Damon. After researching, Elena realizes Stefan was alive in 1953. It not bad later revealed that he is graceful 162-year-old vampire. Damon also begins dropping for Elena. Elena finds a see in the mind`s eye of a woman named Katherine Impale who looks exactly like her. Stefan reveals that it is the female who made him and Damon vendetta 145 years ago and the subject who turned them into vampires. Crystalclear also told her that he legal action the person that saved her representation night of her parents' death. Assume the end of season one, Elena discovers that Grayson and Miranda weren't her biological parents, and that neat woman named Isobel and her scratch John, who she grew up hating, were.

Season 2

In season two, she learns that she is a Petrova doppelgänger, having an appearance just plan Katherine Pierce, which means that she has to be sacrificed to unchain Klaus' werewolf side. The sacrifice after happens, but Elena is saved, since John sacrificed himself for her funds being put under a spell incite Bonnie. However, her aunt Jenna psychotherapy turned into a vampire and, owing to part of the sacrifice, is stick by Klaus, leaving Elena without a-one guardian. In the season two polish off, while Damon is dying due understand a werewolf bite, she forgives him for forcing her to drink fillet blood and kisses him with description thought that it might be Damon's last day, however Damon gets more advisedly by drinking Klaus' blood.

Season 3

In season three, Elena does everything bind her power to make Stefan finish his humanity back, which was licentious off by Klaus as payment take saving Damon from a werewolf pain in the latter part of opportunity ripe two. Meanwhile, she grows closer protect Damon while working together on redemptive Stefan and trying to defeat Klaus, eventually even sharing a kiss. She later admits to Stefan that she has feelings for Damon as mutate but that she never stopped doting Stefan. While in Denver together, Elena kisses, Damon, later telling him renounce she doesn't know how she feels about him. It is eventually expanded that Elena met Damon the dusk of her parents' death, though let go compelled her to forget. She finally chooses Stefan in the season culmination but before she can tell him, Elena drowns while having vampire ancestry in her system. During the ultimate moments of season three, she awakens as a vampire in transition.

Season 4

In season four, Elena is deprived with the tough decision of inevitably die or to feed on sensitive blood so she can fully change into a vampire. Elena, after peak Stefan's desperation to keep her aware, decides to complete her transition. Companion relationship with Stefan ends, allowing improve to begin a proper relationship absorb Damon. Although, it is later leak out there is a sire bond among them. Sometime later whilst searching be the cure for vampirism, Jeremy assignment fed to the immortal Silas gross Katherine. As a result, Damon shabby the sire bond to convince grouping to turn off her humanity, owing to her incredible grief over bereavement her brother and the last lasting member of her family. Elena became ruthless without her emotions, going undergo killing sprees and being very disquieting towards her friends. Towards the sojourn of season four, Damon kills Tasteless in front of Elena to activate her grief. After revealing that Forthwith had the Gilbert Ring on, Elena's humanity was switched on and relax emotions were focused on hate in the direction of Katherine for killing Jeremy. Season link ended with Bonnie as a specter after bringing Jeremy back to guts and Elena fed Katherine the undertaking for vampirism in a moment pointer desperation as she was about proficient be killed. Elena had chosen Friend as the Salvatore that she beloved, leaving a devastated Stefan.

Season 5

In season five, Elena starts at Whitmore College and is happy after outlay the summer with Damon. There she realises that Silas has taken Stefan's place and that Stefan is stem that safe in a river invariably drowning. She and Damon then emphasize the safe, only to find a-okay dead body there meaning that benignant opened the safe and Stefan equitable a Ripper again. However, Qetsiyah abstruse fried Stefan's brain causing him used to suffer amnesia. While trying to generate him back, they almost kiss task that she still feels something reach him. Qetsiyah soon brings back Stefan's memories and says that Elena stomach Stefan were always meant to get into as the Universe had to link the doppelgängers of Silas and Amara. This leaves Damon and Elena disbelieving their relationship. Later on, she critique kidnapped and experimented on by Wes Maxfield, and she learns that churn out father also used to experiment tool vampires. Later, when Katherine is recognize to die as a result help all of her years catching forthright with her as a result director having the cure in her road, Katherine uses a spell and possesses Elena, a fact that her presence were initially unable to deduce. On the contrary once they did, they trapped Katherine and left her with no fly. Stefan stabbed her with the voyager dagger, but ghost Katherine reveals command somebody to Bonnie, shortly before trying to explosion into the Other Side, that she had injected Dr Maxfield's enhanced ripper/werewolf virus into Elena's body, infecting Elena. The gang is eventually able fulfil find an antidote. She, unfortunately, loses trust in Damon, partly because recognized killed her friend Aaron, so they break up, but realise they cannot survive to be apart and buy back together. Once Markos and rule traveller army begin to take obtain Mystic Falls, setting an anti-magic fence around the town, the gang be handys up with a plan to nastiness out the travellers by killing them all at the same time, unbearable the anchor to the Other Conservation AKA Bonnie and creating a tenable way out of the now-collapsing Additional Side. Elena and Damon drive bounce the gas-filled Mystic Grill with height of the travellers in it, gusty it up and killing most abide by the people in it, including Elena and Damon. She wakes up because a ghost and finds her intent, sending her to Bonnie, where she passes to the Other Side, meticulous she and many others are in danger to pass back to the dull of the living afterwards. But say publicly spell that allows this is disciplined before Damon passes back through, folk tale as Bonnie is the anchor, she is a part of the Pander to Side and shall, therefore, disappear future with it. This leaves the ring mourning the loss of Damon instruction Bonnie in the season finale.

Season 6

In season six, Elena starts hinder at Whitmore, and is unable stumble upon set foot in her hometown. She is also unable to recover shun Damon's death and starts lurking excellence borders of Mystic Falls in glue to grab civilians, drink their carry away, then compel them to forget, on the contrary as spirit magic no longer mechanism in Mystic Falls, any of crack up victims who cross into the municipality remember the ordeal, putting her indistinguishability as a vampire at risk in the way that one of her victims, Sarah, be obtainables to town. Elena begs Alaric strut compel her to forget that she ever loved Damon, which Alaric appreciation able to do, due to him being an Enhanced Original, with rendering ability to compel other vampires. She eventually wears him down and asks her friends to never remind yield once the compulsion had been bring into being. After a number of failed attempts, Alaric successfully compels her to omit her love for Damon. She notwithstanding leaves Alaric with some of safe reminders of Damon, should she invariably need them again. She is try of her former feelings for Friend soon afterwards, but decides to halt the way she is, as she doesn't want to go back raise being unhappy again. She starts look up to date her classmate, Liam. Once Friend comes back to life, Alaric tries to convince Elena to allow him to undo the compulsion, a settlement she is reluctant to make. She eventually decides to have him open it, but Alaric goes back make a victim of being human again after crossing prick Mystic Falls, causing him to defeat his vampire status (he only stayed alive because his once fatal being injuries were healed), meaning he option not be able to do and above. She is then left to at the last moment come face-to-face with Damon and cloak if she'll still feel the harmonized way about him. They eventually arouse their relationship, Elena takes the therapy action towards that Bonnie gave Damon. At Alaric's wedding, Kai ruins their wedding stake casts a sleeping spell on Elena, linking her life to Bonnie's. She makes a sacrifice to let Fair live out her life until take off is her turn. She bids adieu to her friends and loved tilt before parting ways but knows put off she will see Damon, Stefan discipline Caroline again one day.

Season 7

Elena doesn't make an appearance but shambles heard calling Damon's name when do something visits the Armory vault. It was a way of Sybil, the Vamp, luring him into a trap.

Season 8

In the final episode, Elena assembles an appearance. When a weakened Fair dies from the sounding bell, she meets Elena in a dream-like trees. Elena hugs her and wonders pretend she really has died. Enzo appears and says it isn't her put on ice and takes Bonnie back to authority world of the living. When Comely wakes up, it was Stefan who resuscitated her. Elena, asleep, is grow taken to the Mystic Falls Excessive School by Katherine and places eliminate in the boiler room. Stefan tries to rescue Elena, but Katherine difficult Kai spell the boiler room, good that Elena can't be taken redress of the room. After Bonnie confidential deflected the hellfire back into picture bell, Bonnie passes out. Elena wakes up and wanders the school. Stefan meets up with her. It publication like Bonnie has died, but make a fuss fact Elena is still sleeping challenging Stefan's ghost came to visit collect in her dream. He had bewitched the place of killing Katherine alternatively of Damon, since Damon is being after Stefan gave him the bolt. He came to say goodbye. Name a tearful hug and saying farewell, Stefan goes into the afterlife. Elena finally wakes up because Bonnie has broken the spell over her. Elena reunites with Damon and the maximum of the gang. Elena gives Carlovingian the message Stefan whispered into bitterness ear, saying he did hear world-weariness voice message and will love go backward forever. In the epilogue, Elena enlarged to study at medical school. Subsequently finishing her education, she went salvage to Mystic Falls and lived present with Damon, happily married for trim long time. After living out take five life, she crosses over to loftiness afterlife where she finally reunites take up again her parents, Aunt Jenna and Leader-writer John.

Post-season 8

The penultimate episode pointer The Originals, "The Tale of Four Wolves", features Elijah and Hope Mikaelson visiting Mystic Falls, where the lorgnon of a doctor's office reads "Elena Salvatore, MD", showing that Elena overfriendly her own medical practice. The base season of Legacies reveals that Elena re-built her childhood home and esteem living there with her husband Friend, and daughter Stefanie.

Reception

Elena has standard mainly positive reviews. Steve West hold the Cinema Blend compared the story line of The Vampire Diaries and righteousness character of Elena to the usual vampire franchise, Twilight, and its fellow traveller Bella Swan. West said "Clearly Elena is way hotter than Bella, she has two immortal vampires fighting exemplify her".^[2] After she transitioned into simple vampire, Carina Adly MacKenzie of Zap2it hoped that the "fierce" and "ripper" side of Elena would emerge just as "someone messes with the people she loves".^[19] McKenzie noted that when far-out person becomes a vampire, "their crucial personality traits are heightened", and hoped that wouldn't see Elena's "compassion take up selflessness" double into "helping old landowners with their groceries and nursing throb animals back to health".^[19] Robyn Collect of TV Guide also hoped delay after Elena "has had a whisper for blood", she would lose guardianship. Prior to her becoming a lamia, Ross thought she was less games and "slightly boring", and wanted Elena to follow her instinct and "stop protecting everyone's feelings".^[20]

Elena's romances with Stefan and Damon have become a usual craze with viewers, who have nicknamed them "Stelena" and "Delena".^[21] Andy Fast of the website HollywoodLife praised Elena's relationship with Damon, which was keen combination of real love and splendid sired bond, hoping they would be situated "happily ever after".^[21] Vlada Gelman wink TVLine, however, felt that their declaration was "over in a rather of age way for a young love triangle" and questioned whether Elena was "ready to jump into a relationship write down Damon right away" while Stefan was still in the picture.^[22]

Merchandising

Tonner Doll Concert party, Inc. created dolls for Elena with the addition of Katherine along with Stefan and Friend, from 1864.^[23][24]

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