The Vampire Diaries ended in 2017, and despite loving his character Damon Salvatore, Ian Somerhalder couldn’t wait to move on. But what has happened to the actor, who also appears in Lost, over the last six years?
Find out how she looked in her first role!
The son of a therapist and a real estate entrepreneur, Ian Somerhalder grew up in Louisiana, where he practiced several sports: skiing, swimming, and horseback riding. He made his stage debut in his school’s drama club and at the age of 10 his mother started him in modeling.
He was just 19 years old when he was spotted among the extras in the feature film Black and White (1999). Which led him to take drama and writing courses in New York.
His early career was marked by projects that did not find their audience, for example, Young Americans, a spin-off of Dawson, canceled after 8 episodes or Fearless, a series that the WB channel decided not to deliver despite filming several episodes. He then racked up appearances on the big and small screens: CSI and CSI: Miami, but also Smallville and New York Special Unit.
In film, he starred opposite Kristin Scott Thomas in The House on the Ocean (2001), then with James van der Beek in Roger Evari’s Laws of Attraction (2003).
Lost… Lost!
JJ Abrams hired him in 2004 for a new and ambitious project: Lost. His character as Boone Carlyle, John Locke’s protégé, allowed him to gain some notoriety.
Spoiler:
If he is very present in the first year of the show, his character dies in episode 20 and as a result he only appears quickly in seasons 2 and 3. The public was very attached to the character, whose fate proved the rivalry between Jack. and Loki.
After several straight-to-DVD releases (Lost Samaritan, The Awakening, Fireball, Marco Polo…), she played Nick in the TV series Tell Me You Love Me, which was canceled after the first season.
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Eight Years of The Vampire Diaries
It was then that Kevin Williamson, the creator of Dawson, with whom he was relatively close, offered him the lead role in a new series adapted from the novel by LJ Smith. The Vampire Diaries.
The actor hesitates, seeing another remake of the saga Twilight, but still agrees to read the script for The Vampire Diaries. He soon finds himself in the place of sulphurous vampire Damon Salvatore, and his performance is rewarded at ceremonies such as the People’s Choice Awards or the Teen Choice Awards.
The Vampire Diaries ended in 2017, and even though he loved his character Damon Salvatore, Ian Somerhalder couldn’t wait to move on. An upcoming project is the Netflix horror series V Wars, a story about a destructive virus caused by melting ice and turning its victims into… vampires! After the first season, it was canceled again, and since then the actor has not found a project.
But how much is the “V Wars” series worth?
And now?
On November 9, 2023, Ian Somerhalder told online Reason for its absence from recent screens: “A little over four years ago, I stepped away from the film set to raise my children, start a business and start movies.”
Interested in climate change, the actor produced the environmental documentary Mission Regeneration in 2020, narrated by Woody Harrelson, and three years later Common Ground, which shows farmers practicing regenerative agriculture.
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