Kayla Ewell

Kayla Noelle Ewell was born in Long Beach, California on August 27, 1985 and raised in Seal Beach. A child who loved performing from a very young age, she began touring with the national Broadway company children's chorus for the production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat by the time she was only in the fourth grade. Along with this, Kayla also studied dance, singing, and acting at the Orange County Song & Dance Company. By 1999, she was discovered by a talent agent while taking acting classes and asked to start going on auditions. While she was able to pick up a number of guest roles including a multi-episode stint on _Freaks and Geeks (1999)_ (qv) she continued to go to school and graduated from Los Alamitos High School in 2003. Ewell first appeared on the television series _Freaks and Geeks (1999)_ (qv) in 2000, playing Maureen Sampson in the episode _Freaks and Geeks: Carded and Discarded (2000)_ (qv) directed by [lin=nm0031976]. She starred on the soap opera _The Bold and the Beautiful (1987)_ (qv) from 2004-2005, and has guest-starred on the TV series _The O.C. (2003)_ (qv), _Boston Public (2000)_ (qv), _Veronica Mars (2004)_ (qv), _Close to Home (2005)_ (qv) and _Entourage (2004)_ (qv). She had a role in the film _Just My Luck (2006)_ (qv), starring Lindsay Lohan, and in _Material Girls (2006)_ (qv), starring 'Haylie Duff' (qv) and 'Hilary Duff' (qv), in 2006. She had a starring role in the film _Senior Skip Day (2008)_ (qv). Ewell co-starred in The CW television series _The Vampire Diaries (2009)_ (qv) for the first seven episodes in 2009. Ewell described her character, Vicki Donovan, to Star magazine as a troublemaker. Vicki was the first human on the series turned into a vampire. Ewell was killed off the show when her character was staked in the heart by Stefan ('Paul Wesley' (qv)) in order to save Elena ('Nina Dobrev' (qv)) in the Halloween-themed episode _The Vampire Diaries: Haunted (2009)_ (qv). Ewell hinted in November 2009 that she was still under contract for the role and might return to the show, but series creator, 'Kevin Williamson' (qv), stated that there were no plans to bring her back. Her character did return however in the finale of the second season, and at the start of season 3. Ewell played a children's fashion designer in the 2011 Hallmark Channel TV movie, _Keeping Up with the Randalls (2011)_ (qv), alongside 'Thad Luckinbill' (qv), 'Marion Ross' (qv), 'Roma Downey' (qv) and 'McKenna Jones' (qv). She next appeared on the A&E television series, _The Glades (2010)_ (qv), that year, as a waitress suspected of murder in the episode _The Glades: Beached (2011)_ (qv). In 2012, she guest starred on the TNT drama, _Franklin & Bash (2011)_ (qv), playing a Navy sailor facing a court-martial. Ewell starred in the 2013 Hallmark Movie Channel film, _A Way Back Home (2013)_ (qv), as Norma, a country music singer and songwriter. The film was named after a 1950s Norman Rockwell painting that featured bluegrass musicians playing in a barbershop. Ewell starred in the 2013 horror film, _The Demented (2013)_ (qv). She also starred in the 2014 Lifetime movie, _Deadly Daycare (2014)_ (qv),. In April 2016, Ewell began filming the feature, 2 Years and 8 Days, with 'Ryan Merriman' (qv) in New Mexico. The film, retitled _2 Years of Love (2017)_ (qv) was released on January 24, 2017. .In her free time, Kayla has said she enjoys painting, rock climbing, and rappelling, and still dances whenever she can. She even goes whitewater rafting from time to time among other various hobbies such as surfing.::Sam013024