Hayden Panettiere

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Hayden Panettiere

Birth name	Hayden Lesley Panettiere
Born	August 21, 1989 (age 17) Islip, New York, USA
Height	5 ft 1 in / 1.55 m
Notable roles	Claire Bennet in Heroes Sheryl Yoast in Remember the Titans Lizzie Spaulding in Guiding Light

Hayden Lesley Panettiere (born August 21, 1989) is an American actress and singer.

1 Biography
2 Selected filmography
3 Discography
- 3.1 Albums
- 3.2 Soundtracks
4 Footnotes
5 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Panettiere was born in Islip, New York to Lesley Vogel and Skip Panettiere. She has Italian ancestry.^[1] (Panettiere means baker in Italian). Her mother also used to be an actress.

[edit] Career

She began appearing in commercials at just eleven months old (in a commercial for Playskool) before landing a role as Sarah Roberts on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live and later as the child Lizzie Spaulding on the CBS soap opera Guiding Light when she was eight years old. Panettiere played the role until 2001. In Guiding Light, for Hayden's character Lizzie's battle with leukemia, the show received a Special Recognition Award from The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society for bringing national awareness of the disease to the attention of daytime viewers.

Since that time, she has appeared in over a dozen full-length feature films, as well as several made-for-TV movies. She has also had a starring role in FOX's Ally McBeal and a recurring guest role in Malcolm in the Middle. She also recently appeared on an episode of Punk'd, as an accomplice in punking her boyfriend, Stephen Colletti. She also has guest starred in Law & Order: SVU. Panettiere currently stars as Claire Bennet in the NBC series Heroes as a high school cheerleader with a healing factor.

Neutrogena made her the cover girl for their new worldwide ad campaign; in this regard Panettiere followed in the footsteps of actresses Josie Bissett, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Mandy Moore, Kristin Kreuk, Mischa Barton and Jennifer Freeman.

Hayden was nominated for a Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for A Bug's Life Read-Along [2000] [1]

Panettiere also provided the voice of Kairi, one of the main characters of Square Enix/Disney's Kingdom Hearts series.

Another current project for Panettiere is a music album. She has recorded several singles for various films such as Disney's Ice Princess and the Disney Channel Original Movie Tiger Cruise. She recently recorded a song for "Girl Next", a compilation album of various up and coming female singers, the song is called "Your New Girlfriend". Her debut album is set for a spring 2007 release [2].

Panettiere currently lives in Palisades, New York with her parents and younger brother, Jansen (who is also an actor), though she travels frequently for movies and other projects. She also resides in Los Angeles, California; Orlando, Florida; and in Warren, Michigan.

[edit] Personal life

Panettiere enjoys a friendship with Paris Hilton, who is eight years older than her. Panettiere is believed to be currently dating reality TV personality Stephen Colletti. [3]

[edit] Selected filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	The Architect	Christina Waters
2006	Heroes	Claire Bennet	TV series
2006	Bring It On: All or Nothing	Britney Allen	Direct-to DVD
2005	Ice Princess	Gen Harwood
	Racing Stripes	Channing Walsh
2004	Lies My Mother Told Me	Haylei Sims	TV film
	The Dust Factory	Melanie Lewis
	Raising Helen	Audrey Davis
2004	Tiger Cruise	Maddie Dolan	TV film
2003	Normal	Patty Ann Applewood
2001	Joe Somebody	Natalie Scheffer
2000	Remember the Titans	Sheryl Yoast
2000	Dinosaur	Suri	voice
1999	Message in a Bottle	Girl on Sinking Boat
1998	A Bug's Life	Dot	voice
1998	The Object of My Affection	Mermaid
1996	Guiding Light	Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Spaulding #2 (1996-2000)	soap opera

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

TBA Released: 2007 (U.S.) Chart positions: TBA RIAA certification: TBA U.S. sales: TBA Singles: 2006: "Your New Girlfriend"

[edit] Soundtracks

2003 Someone Like You — from The Dust Factory OST
2004 My Hero Is You — from Tiger Cruise (Found on Disney Channel Hits: Take 2 CD)
2005 I Fly — from Ice Princess OST
2006 That Girl? — from Bring It On: All or Nothing OST