Let's just get this comparison out of the way: Nina Dobrev is the anti-Bella. Coming to greet me on the Atlanta set ofThe Vampire Diaries I'm creating a project that is science fiction that I hope will be able to navigate some of the issues that we see with privilege in the trans community, when it come to approximation to cis-ness. I'm also writing a horror film.TV I wanted to be a dancer and actress," she says of her time at a competitive performing-arts high school in Toronto. "I was also a gymnast and very academically driven. I always had a lot on my plate and was really overwhelmed. Not much has changed—I'm constantly trying to one-up myself and raising the stakes." She stops and smiles, adding, "Ha! No pun intended." Not that she's complaining. Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, but raised in Toronto, Nina landed her big break just out of high school in 2006 as teen mom Mia inDegrassi: The Next Generation