Kayla Noelle Ewell (born August 27, 1985) is an American actress known for her roles on television as Caitlin Ramirez on CBS’s long-running soap opera and as Vicki Donovan on The CW’s The Vampire Diaries. Ewell was born in Long Beach, California and raised in Seal Beach.She studied dance, singing, and acting at the Orange County Song & Dance Company in Westminster. .She graduated from Los Alamitos High School in 2003.Ewell first appeared on the television series Freaks and Geeks in 2000, playing Maureen Sampson in the episode “Carded and Discarded”, directed by Judd Apatow. She starred on the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful from 2004–2005, and has guest-starred on the TV series The O.C., Boston Public, Veronica Mars, Close to Home and Entourage. She had a role in the film Just My Luck, starring Lindsay Lohan, and in Material Girls, starring Hilary and Haylie Duff, in 2006. She had a starring role in the film Senior Skip Day. Ewell co-starred in The CW television series The Vampire Diaries for the first seven episodes in 2009.