The Vampire Diaries: 10 Shows & Movies Where The Cast Has Been In Since It Ended – Screen Rant

The Vampire Diariesended in 2017 after a total of eight seasons. The series followed the residents of Mystic Falls, a historic town that had quite a long history with the supernatural creatures that have called it home. The series spawned two different spin-off series,The OriginalsandLegacies, which means that we still got to see some of the characters in other shows!

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For the most part, the end ofThe Vampire Diaries was the end of our time with our favorite characters. Luckily, the stars of the series have gone on to appear in a lot of other shows since then! While we all know that some of them, like Phoebe Tonkin and Joseph Morgan, went on to play the same characters in spin-off shows, most of the cast moved on to new projects. To see 10 movies and shows that the cast ofThe Vampire Diaries has been in since it ended, keep reading!

Fam is a series that aired for one season in 2019 and stars Nina Dobrev as Clem, a woman who got engaged recently and lives in New York City where she works for The Met. The series is set shortly after Clem got engaged, when her life should be totally happy. Unfortunately, things change when her younger misbehaving sister moves in with her.

InThe Vampire Diaries, Nina Dobrev played not one but two different roles. Although she only plays Clem inFam, she was the face of both Katherine and Elena inThe Vampire Diaries and later in the series, she also brought Amara to life. Pretty cool!

Sara Canning is an actress that played the role of Jenna Sommers inThe Vampire Diaries. She was one of the central characters in the earlier seasons but wasn't quite as much of a focus later on in the series. Jenna was Elena and Jeremy Gilbert's aunt, and they lived with her after losing their parents.

In 2019, Sara Canning started playing the role of Katherine Drew in the seriesNancy Drew. The series follows the title character after the death of her mother, Katherine, as she puts her plans for going to college on hold to take a year off to work. Because of the fact that Katherine passed away before the series started, Sara isn't in aton of the episodes, but it's still nice to see Jenna Sommers in a new role.

Malese Jow, who is now professionally known as Melise, played the role of Anna inThe Vampire Diaries. Anna was a vampire and a major character in the first few seasons. She was dating Jeremy Gilbert and had come back to Mystic Falls in order to try to get her mother out of the tomb where she was sealed with the other vampires in the 19th century.

Following her departure fromThe Vampire Diaries, Malese Jow took on the role of Jennifer Kim in the seriesNCIS: Los Angeles. In the series, Jennifer Kim is the daughter ofNCIS Assistant Director Owen Granger and a secret agent who is assigned to a very special mission.

InThe Vampire Diaries, Claire Holt played the role of Rebekah Mikaelson. Rebekah was one of the Original Vampires and played a huge part in the series. She, like her siblings, was turned into a vampire through a curse that was put on them by their mother. She also appeared in some episodes ofThe Originals, but that's not all Claire Holt has done since the end of the series.

She also appeared in the 2019 movieA Violent Separation. In this movie, she played the role of Abbey. This movie is set in rural Montana and follows a young deputy sheriff who hides the fact that his older brother took the life of another person.

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Rise Of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesis an animated reboot of the classic franchise. It made its premiere on Nickelodeon in 2018 and follows our favorite Mutant Turtle brothers as they live below the streets of New York City. In this series, Kat Graham voices the character of April O'Neil, a human who is best friends with the turtles.

InThe Vampire Diaries, played the role of Bonnie, a witch who is best friends with Elena Gilbert. Throughout the series, Bonnie has to learn to control her magical powers and come to terms with the fact that she comes from a long line of witches.

Chris Wood is an actor that played the role of Malachai "Kai" Parker starting in the sixth season ofThe Vampire Diaries. This actor played the same role throughout the end of the series and was definitely one of the most interesting villains that appeared in the show.

In 2016, Chris Wood started appearing on The CW'sSupergirlas Mon-El. Along with being onSupergirl, Chris Wood has also appeared in a crossover Arrowverse episode ofThe Flash. Wood is set to play Kai again in a guest spot onLegacies in 2020.

Roswell, New Mexicois a science fiction drama that premiered in 2019 on The CW and is an adaptation of the same book that the originalRoswell series was adapted from. In this series, Michael Trevino plays the role of Kyle, a doctor living in Roswell who learns about the troubling history of his family.

Roswell, New Mexicoisn't the only time that Trevino has played a character with some family drama. InThe Vampire Diaries, he played the role of Tyler Lockwood, a member of one of the Founding Families in Mystic Falls who learns about his family's curse.

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Tell Me A Storyis an anthology series that premiered in 2018 on CBS' streaming services, CBS All Access. This psychological thriller takes fairy tales that we all know and love and turns them into something creepy and interesting. Paul Wesley has appeared in both seasons that have aired so far, as a version of the grandmother fromLittle Red Riding Hood in the first season and then as a version of Maleficent fromSleeping Beauty in the second.

InThe Vampire Diaries, Paul Wesley played the role of Stefan Salvatore, the younger of the Salvatore brothers who has a troubled past with his vampire side and who meets Elena at school.

V-Warsis a Netflix original series that was released on the streaming service in 2019and stars Ian Somerhalder as Dr. Luther Swann. This super scary sci-fi series follows Dr. Swann and his best friend, Michael Fayne, as they find themselves trying to deal with a deadly new virus that turns humans into vampires.

V-Wars isn't the only series that Ian Somerhalder has dealt with vampires on, though. OnThe Vampire Diaries, he played a vampire himself. In that series, he played the role of Damon Salvatore, the older of the two brothers who comes back to Mystic Falls in order to deal with some unfinished business from his past.

Medal of Honor is a Netflix original series that premiered on the streaming service in 2019. In the series, Steven R. McQueen plays the role of Joseph Vittori, a soldier who received a Medal of Honor for his service in the Korean War.

Prior to appearing in this anthology series, McQueen was an actor who had a major role onThe Vampire Diaries. In the series, he played the role of Jeremy Gilbert, younger brother to Elena.

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