Annika Noelle Joins 'The Bold and the Beautiful' as Hope Logan

Annika Noelle has joined the cast of CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful as the new Hope Logan, a role most recently played by Kim Matula.

Noelle told Soap Opera Digest that she was in the dark about who she would be playing when she first auditioned.

"Going in, you do your research about the show and I was able to figure out a bit, based on who I was doing my chemistry reads with, who this might be," she reveals.  "I did a chemistry read first with Scott Clifton [Liam] and then another with Katherine Kelly Lang [Brooke]. I was thrilled because Hope has a real joie de vivre about her. She sees the glass as half-full and even though she has been through hardship, she doesn’t let that drag her down, and I think that’s a wonderful quality."

Noelle is scheduled to make her first appearance as Hope on January 8.