Elena Gilbert

Elena Gilbert is the 4th and last surviving doppelganger of Amara, a recently turned vampire, one of the main female protagonists and the central character of The Vampire Diaries. She lives in the supernatural town of Mystic Falls, Virginia, in the Salvatore Boarding House with Damon and Stefan Salvatore and her adoptive brother Jeremy Gilbert. She used to live at 2104 Maple Street, but she left when her brother became a member of The Five and later burned down the house after his death.

Some well known facts about Elena Gilbert

 

• Elena's birthday is June 22 and her astrological sign is Cancer.
• Elena along with all the Petrova Doppelgänger's names end with the letter "A". Amara, Tatia, Katerina.
• Miranda, Elena's mother gave Elena her first diary when she was 9, and began writing in it a year later.
• Elena's car is a 2008 Ford Escape SUV and the license plate is EFG 3J85.
• Elena has had a variety of different cell phones over the years. She had a Blackberry Pearl, Blackberry Bold, a Purple Blackberry Curve 8520 and a Nokia Lumia 610 White. In season three, she had an AT&T Samsung Captivate and a White AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket.

• In the series physical and personality aspects of Elena from the books are passed to Caroline.
  • In the novels Elena becomes a vampire. In the series Caroline becomes a vampire first, and Elena became a vampire in the Season 3 finale.
• In the novels Elena is friends with Bonnie McCullough and Meredith Sulez but in the series, Meredith and Elena aren't close and Bonnie Bennett and Caroline Forbes are Elena's best friends.
• In the novels, Elena has pale skin, light blonde hair and deep, blue eyes and is heavily Anglo-Saxon in appearance, and hates Elena. In the series, Elena has light olive skin, dark brown hair and brown eyes and is exotic looking, (due to her Bulgarian background) and Caroline and Elena are best friends.
• In the novels, Elena has a little sister named Margaret Gilbert and an aunt named Judith Maxwell. In the series, Elena has a younger brother named Jeremy Gilbert and an aunt named Jenna Sommers.
• In the series, Elena's first significant kill was the Original Elijah. In the books Elena kills Katherine (They die together) and is the first to destroy one of the Old Ones (Klaus).
• Elena was dating Matt Donovan, but broke up with him 4 months before the start of the series. Elena then meets Stefan Salvatore, and is instantly drawn to him, and they develops a romantic relationship.
• When Elena was is high school she wanted to be a writer.
• Elena used to be a cheerleader along with Bonnie and Caroline.
• One of Elena's favorite foods is chicken Parmesan.
• In the novels, her middle name is Marie.
• Elena once said that, just like her mother, she cannot cook.
• Both the first and second seasons end in the Gilbert house.
  • Season One: Elena come home to find John Gilbert has been stabbed by Katherine.
  • Season Two: After Jeremy is revived by Bonnie, he hears noises and discovers that he can see Vicki and Anna as ghosts.
• Damon Salvatore tried to turn Elena into a vampire on two occasions;
  • He used Elena to force Stefan into giving him Emily Bennett's Grimoire.
  • Elena was ready to die in the sacrifice, Damon force fed her his blood to make sure she would come back after.
• Elena is the only person to die with vampire blood in their system and wake up human. This is because of a spell Bonnie cast, binding Elena and John's life forces together.
• Elena is the only human to neutralized three Originals (Elijah, Rebekah, and Mikael).
• Two times an Original killed her as a human.
• Elena had a hand in the death of 2 originals, Finn and Kol.
• Elena killed Alaric Saltzman, but he became possessed by an Original later. Ironically Elena was also responsible for Alaric's death as an Original because Esther turned him, she bound Elena's life with Alaric's.
• Before she became a vampire, Elena was the (presumably) fourth Petrova Doppelgänger.
• Meredith Fell injects vampire's blood to save Elena's life from a cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding on the brain).
• Rebekah killed Elena as a human and Damon's blood turned her into a vampire.
• In both the books and the series, Elena drowns with vampire blood in her system after a vampire causes the vehicle to drive over the Wickery Bridge. In the books, it was Katherine; in the series, it was Rebekah.
• Elena is the sixth recurring character turned into a vampire after Vicki, Caroline, Jenna, Tyler, and Alaric.
• Elena and Stefan both wear their Lapis Lazuli daylight ring on their right hand, ring finger.
• Elena is the first vampire character to form a sire bond, whose bond is based on romantic feelings.
  • Elena is one of two characters sired to Damon. The other was Charlotte.
• Elena was unable to feed on animal blood and human blood from blood bags, because Damon told her not to, not realizing the sire bond.
• Her first kill as a vampire was Connor Jordan.
• She is the third person in her family line to have slept with Damon Salvatore. The first being Katherine Pierce, and her birth mother; Isobel Saltzman.
• Elena, Stefan and Damon, are the only main characters who have appeared in every episode, until Total Eclipse of the Heart and No Exit when Elena's body it taken over by Katherine.
• In Stand By Me, Damon uses his sire bond and tells Elena to switch off her humanity because of Jeremy's death.
• In Because the Night, Elena dyed some of her hair red.
• Turning off her humanity doesn’t necessarily make Elena emotionless. It makes her less sensitive to pain — her own, and other people’s.
• Elena was one of the three last members of the Petrova Family, Elena, Katherine and Nadia. but ass of Gone Girl, she is the last surviving member.
• To date, Elena has the biggest loss of humanity of any vampire seen, as she confessed to Elijah that she took pleasure in watching Jeremy's body burn. She also attempted to kill Caroline and Bonnie for unknown reasons, and talking down to Original Vampires.
• Elena forced Katherine to take the Cure and is the first person to turn a vampire human.
• Though being a vampire made her Doppelganger genes inactive, in Death and the Maiden, Tessa used her, Amara, and Katherine's blood to transfer the anchor powers to Bonnie and The Travellers used her blood to bring back Markos.
• In Fifty Shades of Grayson it is revealed that Katherine's father was a Travelers, meaning Elena was possibly a witch before she was turned.
• In 500 Years of Solitude Katherine became a passenger in Elena's body. Making Elena the first vampire in the series to be possessed through a Passenger spell, the second vampire (after Rebekah) to be possessed, and the fifth recurring character to be possessed after Niklaus Mikaelson possessed Alaric Saltzman and Tyler Lockwood, Esther possessed Rebekah, and then Matt Donovan being possessed by Gregor.
• After the events of The Devil Inside, Elena's body had been placed under the complete control of Katherine, she recovers control of her body in Gone Girl.
• Elena is an Augustine Vampire like Damon, although the serum she was injected with contained werewolf venom as well.
• In No Exit, Damon fed on both Enzo and Elena (Katherine).
• According to an article by Caroline Dries, Elena is dying because of the werewolf venom in her virus. Later she's cured in While You Were Sleeping .
• Elena is the youngest vampire on the show