Elena Gilbert is a fictional character and protagonist from the novel series The Vampire Diaries.
50 Facts About Elena Gilbert
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Much of Elena Gilbert's story revolves around her relationships with vampires Stefan Salvatore and his older brother, Damon.
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Elena Gilbert was inside the Salvatore tomb, then relocated to a warehouse in Brooklyn, New York in the seventh season, then back to Mystic Falls.
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Elena Gilbert was the second cast member to be announced following Steven R McQueen, who plays Elena's brother Jeremy Gilbert.
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Steve West Cinema Blend said the vampire brothers' battle over Elena Gilbert will wreak havoc on the entire town.
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Elena Gilbert had confessed that she enjoys playing Katherine more than Elena.
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Dobrev felt that her biggest challenge on The Vampire Diaries was distinguishing Katherine and Elena Gilbert, and found it "interesting" to create a whole new character.
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Elena Gilbert began dating Stefan Salvatore, and later discovered he was a vampire.
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Elena Gilbert said "Stefan is committed and sweet and protective and loving, and Damon is spontaneous and crazy and fun and exciting".
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Executive producers Julie Plec and Kevin Williamson agreed that in the book series, Elena Gilbert was turned into a vampire too early, which was around page 200 of The Awakening.
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At the second season's conclusion, Elena Gilbert was nearly turned into a vampire.
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In what was described by the International Business Times as "the moment Vampire Diaries fans have been waiting for", Elena Gilbert had to choose whether to be driven to Damon or Stefan to say goodbye to.
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Elena Gilbert woke up as a vampire at the end of the season.
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Plec said Elena Gilbert becoming a vampire is "an awakening of a person who is about to go through a lot of changes", and "she is going to evolve as a person and her relationships are going to evolve accordingly".
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Elena Gilbert is born on June 22,1992, in Mystic Falls, Virginia to John Gilbert and Isobel Flemming while they were still in high school.
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On May 23,2009, Elena Gilbert called her aunt Jenna Sommers, after getting in a fight with Matt while attending a party.
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Elena Gilbert meets a mysterious new student named Stefan Salvatore.
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Elena Gilbert finds a picture of a woman named Katherine Pierce who looks exactly like her.
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Elena Gilbert told her that he is the person that saved her the night of her parents death.
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The sacrifice later happens, but Elena Gilbert is saved, because John sacrificed himself for her after being put under a spell by Bonnie.
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Elena Gilbert later admits to Stefan that she has feelings for Damon as well but that she never stopped loving Stefan.
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Elena Gilbert eventually chooses Stefan in the season finale but before she can tell him, Elena drowns while having vampire blood in her system.
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In season four, Elena Gilbert is faced with the tough decision of whether to die or to feed on human blood so she can fully transition into a vampire.
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Elena Gilbert, after realizing Stefan's desperation to keep her alive, decides to complete her transition.
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Elena Gilbert became ruthless without her emotions, going on killing sprees and being very hateful towards her friends.
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Season four ended with Bonnie as a ghost after bringing Jeremy back to life and Elena Gilbert fed Katherine the cure for vampirism in a moment of desperation as she was about to be killed.
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Elena Gilbert had chosen Damon as the Salvatore that she loved, leaving a devastated Stefan.
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In season five, Elena Gilbert starts at Whitmore College and is happy after spending the summer with Damon.
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Elena Gilbert and Damon then find the safe, only to find a dead body there meaning that someone opened the safe and Stefan is a Ripper again.
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Elena Gilbert wakes up as a ghost and finds her body, sending her to Bonnie, where she passes to the Other Side, and she and many others are able to pass back to the land of the living afterwards.
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In season six, Elena Gilbert starts back at Whitmore, and is unable to set foot in her hometown.
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Elena Gilbert is unable to recover from Damon's death and starts lurking the borders of Mystic Falls in order to grab civilians, drink their blood, then compel them to forget, but as spirit magic no longer works in Mystic Falls, any of her victims who cross into the town remember the ordeal, putting her identity as a vampire at risk when one of her victims, Sarah, comes to town.
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Elena Gilbert begs Alaric to compel her to forget that she ever loved Damon, which Alaric is able to do, due to him being an Enhanced Original, with the ability to compel other vampires.
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Elena Gilbert eventually wears him down and asks her friends to never remind her once the compulsion had been done.
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Elena Gilbert is told of her former feelings for Damon soon afterwards, but decides to stay the way she is, as she doesn't want to go back to being unhappy again.
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Once Damon comes back to life, Alaric tries to convince Elena Gilbert to allow him to undo the compulsion, a decision she is reluctant to make.
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Elena Gilbert eventually decides to have him undo it, but Alaric goes back to being human again after crossing into Mystic Falls, causing him to lose his vampire status, meaning he will not be able to do so.
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Elena Gilbert is then left to finally come face-to-face with Damon and see if she'll still feel the same way about him.
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At Alaric's wedding, Kai ruins their wedding and casts a sleeping spell on Elena Gilbert, linking her life to Bonnie's.
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Elena Gilbert makes a sacrifice to let Bonnie live out her life until it is her turn.
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Elena Gilbert doesn't make an appearance but is heard calling Damon's name when he visits the Armory vault.
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Elena Gilbert, asleep, is then taken to the Mystic Falls High School by Katherine and places her in the boiler room.
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Elena Gilbert had taken the place of killing Katherine instead of Damon, since Damon is human after Stefan gave him the cure.
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Elena Gilbert finally wakes up because Bonnie has broken the spell over her.
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Elena Gilbert gives Caroline the message Stefan whispered into her ear, saying he did hear her voice message and will love her forever.
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The third season of Legacies reveals that Elena Gilbert re-built her childhood home and is living there with her husband, Damon, and daughter, Stefanie.
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West said "Clearly Elena Gilbert is way hotter than Bella, she has two immortal vampires fighting over her".
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Robyn Ross of TV Guide hoped that after Elena Gilbert "has had a taste for blood", she would lose control.
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Andy Swift of the website HollywoodLife praised Elena Gilbert's relationship with Damon, which was a combination of real love and a sired bond, hoping they would live "happily ever after".
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Vlada Gelman of TVLine felt that their romance was "over in a rather mature way for a young love triangle" and questioned whether Elena Gilbert was "ready to jump into a relationship with Damon right away" while Stefan was still in the picture.