[5] Torrey Joel DeVitto was born and raised in Huntington on Long Island, New York and Winter Park, Florida.

She began taking violin lessons at age six and by the fourth grade, she was playing with the local high school orchestra.

[8] When DeVitto was 12 years old, she played a solo violin piece at Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook's wedding.

[10] DeVitto's modeling career started at age 15, when she began appearing in commercials, which she described to be a stepping stone to get to TV and film jobs.

[12] Staying true to her love of music in 2002, she played violin with the Tommy Davidson Band at the Sunset Room in Hollywood.

[14] In 2002, she landed a lead role in playwright Lee Blessing's play Eleemosynary, which was performed at the Orlando Shakespeare Theater.

[9] DeVitto co-starred in the ABC Family drama series Beautiful People as aspiring model Karen Kerr from 2005 to 2006.

She guest-starred on Drake & Josh, Scrubs, Jack & Bobby and had a small part in the romantic drama short film Forbidden Love.

[15][16] DeVitto appeared in the horror comedy film Killer Movie (2008) with then-boyfriend Paul Wesley, Kaley Cuoco and Leighton Meester.

From 2008 to 2009, DeVitto had a recurring role in the fifth and sixth seasons of The CW drama series One Tree Hill, where she played nanny Carrie.

[17][18] In 2013, DeVitto told Entertainment Tonight that her role as Carrie garnered strong reactions from the show's viewers and she often gets approached by fans about One Tree Hill.

[20] In 2017, Samantha Simon of InStyle wrote that "for Torrey DeVitto, playing super-sketchy Melissa Hastings on Pretty Little Liars wasn't exactly a challenge.

Because, despite the seemingly endless web of lies surrounding the eldest Hastings sister on the show, it all looks like child's play compared to DeVitto's other unforgettable role as psychotic Nanny Carrie on One Tree Hill."

She played Nina in the horror film The Rite (2011) alongside Anthony Hopkins, Alice Braga and Colin O'Donoghue.

[21] In November 2011, DeVitto was confirmed to have a recurring role in The CW fantasy drama series The Vampire Diaries as Dr. Meredith Fell, who is fascinated by Alaric Saltzman (Matthew Davis), when she notices how quickly he recovers from an injury.

In November 2012, it was reported that she had signed on to star as Maggie Hall in the seventh season of the Lifetime drama series Army Wives.

[47] Shot in an 18th-century French castle,[48] the film follows a chess player haunted by his tragic past, Jonas (Kellan Lutz), who is given an opportunity to participate in a mysterious game, Divertimento.

[49] On August 31, 2021, Deadline announced that DeVitto had joined the cast of Hallmark Movies & Mysteries film called The Christmas Promise alongside Dylan Bruce and Patrick Duffy.

[69][70] She has used Instagram as a platform to raise awareness of current topics and her charitable causes such as sexual trafficking, hospices, racism and the Black Lives Matter movement.

[78] She designed a shirt to raise money for suicide prevention organization IMAlive,[78] which hosts a live online crisis chat.

[80][81] She is the narrator of the documentary film titled Road to Hope (2015) that follows palliative care nurses in Uganda and the challenges they face in bringing comfort to those in the country's remote villages.

[82] An animal rights advocate, DeVitto has two rescued dogs, Beau and Homie, and partnered with the Shelter Pet Project to promote adoption.

[87] In 2020, she teamed up with The Tote Project to launch a "Free to Blossom x Torrey DeVitto Pouch," made from recycled saris by sex trafficking victims in India.

[90] In 2007, DeVitto began dating her Killer Movie co-star Paul Wesley, whom she married in a private ceremony in April 2011.

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