Daniela Nieves has joined the cast of Peacock’s Vampire Academy, a reboot of the 2014 fantasy drama series based on bestselling author Richelle Mead’s young adult, romance novel series of the same title that was also made into a movie.
Just like the original series, Vampire Academy is about two young women whose friendship transcends their strikingly different worlds as they prepare to complete their education and enter royal vampire society.
Nieves (Sex Appeal) will play Lissa Dragomir, the Royal Moroi vampire that is one of the series’s two central characters.
In Vampire Academy, Rose Hathaway, a half-human/half-vampire hybrid known as Dhampir, makes her life mission to protect mortal vampires known as Moroi, particularly her life-long best friend Lissa. After dropping out of a special high school for both moroi and dhampirs, the pair was on the run for more than a year. But the two friends are dragged back into the treacherous adolescent world of high school. However, Rose is not too worried about St. Vladimir’s Academy’s drama queens and bad boys but unknown and powerful forces that threaten Lissa.
Nieves is best known for playing Andrea Futura Doctora Cruz “Andi” on the Nickelodeon series Every Witch Way and WITS Academy. Other credits include the Facebook Watch series, Five Points, CBS’s legal drama All Rise as well as Spanish-language projects like the Telemundo telenovelas Una Maid en Manhattan and El Rostro de Analía as well as the Colombian telenovela La Viuda de Blanco, which also aired on Telemundo.
The Vampire Academy cast also features Sisi Stringer (Mortal Kombat), Kieron Moore (Masters of the Air, Sex Education), André Dae Kim (Degrassi, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds), J. August Richards (Angel, Generation), Anita-joy Uwajeh (West End’s Cyrano de Bergerac and King Lear), Mia Mckenna-bruce (West End’s Billy Elliot The Musical, The Dumping Ground), Rhian Blundell (Torchwood: Believe, Doctor Who: The Dread of Night), Jonetta Kaiser (Tales, Breakwater) and Andrew Liner (Grown-ish).
Julie Plec (The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, Legacies) and longtime collaborator Marguerite MacIntyre are adapting the series and also serve as showrunners, writers and exec producers. Plec is set to serve as a director in the first season, too. Also directing is Spanish-born filmmaker Luis Prieto (White Lines).
Featured Photo: Daniela Nieves (Credit: Courtesy of artist)
