Rebecca Michaelson is the heroine of the series The Vampire Diaries (a secondary character-antagonist) and his spin-offs, The Ancients (trinagonist). He is the original vampire, as her age exceeds one thousand years.
Claire Holt
The actress originally from Australia began her film career absolutely by accident. The girl earned pocket money by shooting commercials and planned to become a doctor. However, in 2006, Claire got the role of Emma Gilbert in the youth series "H 2 O: Just Add Water." Two seasons later, Holt left the set of the sensational project for the sake of working on the film "Envoys 2: Scarecrow." The next pictures of the actress were the comedy "Mean Girls-2" and the teenage drama "Pretty Little Liars."
Dizzying success came after the show of the series “The Vampire Diaries”, in which Claire Holt played the mysterious Rebecca Michaelson. The actress got the main roles in the film "Blue Abyss" and the series "Aquarius" and "Original".
The appearance and character of the character
Most of Rebecca's actions contradict each other. However, they have a logical explanation. The completion of human life made of a sweet and funny young girl a cruel vampire, deep down wishing to become an ordinary woman, a good wife and a caring mother. With the help of aggression, she defends herself against seemingly endless attacks from others.
Mentally, Rebecca Michaelson is most attached to her brother Klaus, despite the fact that he constantly seeks to deprive her of the right to choose, thereby annoying. Unhappy romance novels are also the cause of her evil and repulsive nature. Outwardly, Rebecca is extremely charming. Her height is 1.70 m. The girl has long wavy blonde hair, blue eyes and dimples on her cheeks, which she inherited from her father.
Early story
The girl's parents were the richest landowners in Eastern Europe, Esther and Michael. The measured family life of the characters was violated by the death of Rebecca's younger brother, Henrik, who was killed by a werewolf. Not wanting to live in fear for her children, Esther, using the spell of immortality, turned them into vampires.
At the beginning of the 12th century, Rebecca lived in Italy with her two brothers. According to the stories of Elijah, in 1359 his sister for some reason lost most of her humanity. At the end of the XV century, the acquaintance of Rebecca Michaelson and Katerina Petrova took place. Later it turned out that her name is Katherine Pierce - she is from the generation of doubles. It was her Klaus who tried to use as a removal of the curse that blocked his werewolf essence.
In the 1700s, the Michaelsons moved to New Orleans. Probably the reason for the move lies in the escape from Michael. After some time, Rebecca fell in love with the son of the governor of New Orleans, Emil. The girl wanted to give him immortality, but Elijah and Niklaus dissuaded her. Ultimately, the Rebecca brothers killed her lover. At the beginning of the 20th century, the heroine met with a vampire named Marcel, but Klaus constantly threatened their happiness. The girl decided to get rid of her brother with the help of her father, but when she changed her mind, it was too late, and they had to hide in Chicago.
"The Vampire Diaries"
The audience first saw Rebecca Michaelson in the episode "The End of the Novel." With her help in Mystic Falls, Klaus is going to contact a powerful witch who is able to return to him the essence of a werewolf. In parallel, Rebecca with great pleasure studying at school and plans to beat a guy from Caroline Forbes.
Later, the heroine learns the terrible truth about the death of her mother, who was killed not by her father, but by Niklaus. Suddenly, Esther binds her children with a spell. Its meaning is that the death of one of them entails the death of all. Esther wanted to kill her children so that they would stop harming people. In the fourth season, all the Michaelsons left Mystic Falls, with the exception of Klaus and Rebecca.
Vampires discover one dose of a drug that can restore their human lives. Rebecca Michaelson, whose photo you see above, decides to drink it, but Klaus with the help of a dagger introduces her into an insensitive state. April’s new girlfriend saves the girl. Elijah agrees to give her sister medicine if she survives one day without using vampire abilities. She would have been able to fulfill this condition, but Rebecca chose to save April, seriously injured, allowing her to drink that blood.
Interesting facts about Rebecca
Initially, the character's name was Becks. Based on this, the other characters of The Vampire Diaries and The Firstborn often give Rebecca different nicknames: Becca, Barbie Klaus, Sexy Becks and others. Michaelson is the only ancient female vampire. Most of the girl's lovers died at the hands of her brother Klaus. By the way, Rebecca Michaelson is bisexual.
The heroine has the habit of calling her interlocutor “sweetheart,” which was probably passed on from her brothers Kol and Klaus. With the dead Finn, the girl was connected not only with family ties, but also with hatred for the loss of human life. Rebecca, Kol and Elijah are the last surviving original vampires.