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    Paul Wesley is an American actor and director best known for playing Stefan Salvatore on The Vampire Diaries. He was born in New Jersey to Polish parents and is fluent in Polish. Wesley began his career with roles on soap operas and short-lived television series in the early 2000s. He changed his professional name to Paul Wesley in 2005 to make it easier to pronounce. Wesley currently stars as Stefan on The Vampire Diaries and has begun directing episodes of the show. He has also produced and starred in several independent films.

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    Paul Wesley is an American actor and director best known for playing Stefan Salvatore on The Vampire Diaries. He was born in New Jersey to Polish parents and is fluent in Polish. Wesley began his career with roles on soap operas and short-lived television series in the early 2000s. He changed his professional name to Paul Wesley in 2005 to make it easier to pronounce. Wesley currently stars as Stefan on The Vampire Diaries and has begun directing episodes of the show. He has also produced and starred in several independent films.

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    Paul Wesley is an American actor and director best known for playing Stefan Salvatore on The Vampire Diaries. He was born in New Jersey to Polish parents and is fluent in Polish. Wesley began his career with roles on soap operas and short-lived television series in the early 2000s. He changed his professional name to Paul Wesley in 2005 to make it easier to pronounce. Wesley currently stars as Stefan on The Vampire Diaries and has begun directing episodes of the show. He has also produced and starred in several independent films.

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    Paul Wesley is an American actor and director best known for playing Stefan Salvatore on The Vampire Diaries. He was born in New Jersey to Polish parents and is fluent in Polish. Wesley began his career with roles on soap operas and short-lived television series in the early 2000s. He changed his professional name to Paul Wesley in 2005 to make it easier to pronounce. Wesley currently stars as Stefan on The Vampire Diaries and has begun directing episodes of the show. He has also produced and starred in several independent films.

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    Paul Wesley (born Paweł Tomasz Wasilewski;[1] July 23, 1982[2]) is an American

    actor, director,[3] and producer.[4] He is known for his role as Stefan Salvatore in The
    Vampire Diaries.

    Wesley was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, to Polish parents Tomasz and
    Agnieszka Wasilewski, and grew up in Marlboro Township, New Jersey. He has one
    older sister, Monika, and two younger sisters, Julia and Leah.[5] In addition to English,
    he speaks Polish, having spent four months every year in Poland until the age of 16.[6]

    Wesley attended Christian Brothers Academy in Lincroft, New Jersey and Marlboro
    High School for a period during his high school years. During his junior year in high
    school, he was cast in the soap opera Guiding Light as character Max Nickerson. He
    transferred from Marlboro High School to Lakewood Prep School in Howell, New
    Jersey because the school was able to accommodate his acting schedule.

    In 2001, he was one of the main cast members of the short lived TV series Wolf Lake,
    playing the role of Lucas "Luke" Cates. The show's cast also featured Tim Matheson,
    Sharon Lawrence, Graham Greene & Bruce McGill.

    In 2005, he began to credit himself as Paul Wesley. When asked why he changed his
    professional name to Paul Wesley, he replied, "My birthname is too hard to
    pronounce."[10]

    He is currently starring as vampire Stefan Salvatore in The Vampire Diaries which


    premiered in September 2009 on The CW. In the series, he plays a younger brother to
    Damon Salvatore (played by Ian Somerhalder) as well as the love interest of a 17-year-
    old girl named Elena Gilbert (played by Nina Dobrev). Wesley began directing "The
    Vampire Diaries" in Season 6 and is currently directing as well as starring in the show.
    [11]

    He was recently cast opposite Susan Sarandon in a film called Mother's Day,[13] and
    is set to star and produce Convergence.[14]

    Wesley had two films released in 2015. Before I Disappear , which he produced and
    costarred in, went on to win the SXSW Film Festival Audience Award and competed in
    the Venice Days section of the Venice Film Festival.[16] He also co-starred in Amira
    and Sam from Drafthouse Films.[17]

    Wesley met and began dating actress Torrey DeVitto in 2007 when they acted together
    in Killer Movie. They married in a private ceremony in New York City in April 2011.[18]
    In July 2013, it was reported that they had filed for divorce.[19] The divorce was
    finalized in December 2013.[20]

    Wesley lived in Atlanta, Georgia while filming The Vampire Diaries and the rest of the
    time with his then-wife Torrey DeVitto in Los Angeles, California.[21] He sold his Los
    Angeles-residence after his divorce at the end of 2013.[22]

    Wesley met actress Phoebe Tonkin on the set of The Vampire Diaries in 2012; they
    have been a couple since September 2013.[23]

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