{"id":2011421,"date":"2025-09-10T12:31:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T12:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2011421"},"modified":"2025-09-10T12:31:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T12:31:31","slug":"nina-dobrev-fought-for-equal-pay-on-vampire-diaries-for-six-seasons-only-earned-the-same-as-ian-somerhalder-and-paul-wesley-on-series-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/nina-dobrev-fought-for-equal-pay-on-vampire-diaries-for-six-seasons-only-earned-the-same-as-ian-somerhalder-and-paul-wesley-on-series-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Nina Dobrev Fought for Equal Pay on \u2018Vampire Diaries\u2019 for Six Seasons, Only Earned the Same as Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley on Series Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Despite being the lead of \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1405406\/\">The Vampire Diaries<\/a>,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2400045\/\">Nina Dobrev<\/a> never made as much money as her costars, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0813812\/\">Ian Somerhalder<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0913587\/\">Paul Wesley<\/a>. In \u201cI Was Feeling Epic: An Oral History of The Vampire Diaries,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm8874748\/\">Samantha Highfill<\/a>\u2019s book released on Tuesday, Dobrev fought for seasons for equal pay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCandice [King], Kat [Graham], and I were the three lowest-paid series regulars in the first two seasons,\u201d Dobrev, who was also portraying <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm6188331\/\">Katherine Pierce<\/a> in addition to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm14574392\/\">Elena Gilbert<\/a>, says. \u201cIt was a bit of a tricky situation because my contract only said to play Elena, but I was playing multiple characters, which doubled my workload.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being the lead of \u201cThe Vampire Diaries,\u201d Nina Dobrev never made as much money as her costars, Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley. In \u201cI Was Feeling Epic: An Oral History of The Vampire Diaries,\u201d Samantha Highfill\u2019s book released on Tuesday, Dobrev fought for seasons for equal pay. \u201cCandice [King], Kat [Graham], and I were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2011422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2011421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nina-Dobrev-Fought-for-Equal-Pay-on-\u2018Vampire-Diaries-for.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2011421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2011422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2011421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2011421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2011421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}