Colin Ferguson, Emily Chang, and Jodi Lyn O'Keefe are three of the main new cast members who will be introduced on The Vampire Diaries season 6, which is set to premiere on Thursday night.
Ferguson, who is best known for playing Sheriff Jack Carter on Eureka, will be Tripp, a father figure to Matt.
“He came about because we wanted to show Matt thriving in Mystic Falls, without supernaturals,”executive producer Caroline Dries told Access Hollywood.
“Every episode Matt is having his life in jeopardy or somebody’s threatening to kill him, or something, so it’s like, what’s Matt’s life like when he can just not have to have a death threat every five minutes, and we kind of wanted to give him like a father figure type, like coach kind of guy and so that’s where Tripp came out of. But, you know, it’s Mystic Falls/‘Vampire Diaries.’ Not everyone is who they say they want to be.”
Chang, who has recently appeared on Days of Our Lives, How I Met Your Mother, and Community, plays Ivy, a new love interest for Stefan Salvatore.
“Ivy’s a potential love interest, and she kind of opens the door into this world of Stefan’s that we’ve never seen before,” Dries said.
