Hayden Panettiere

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Hayden Panettiere

Hayden Panettiere
Birth name Hayden Leslie Panettiere
Born August 21, 1989 (age 17)
Flag of United States Palisades, New York, USA
Official site Hayden Panettiere at MySpace
Notable roles Claire Bennet in Heroes
Lizzie Spaulding in Guiding Light
Kairi in Kingdom Hearts I & II

Hayden Leslie Panettiere (IPA: /ˌpænɪtiˈɛr/) (born August 21, 1989) is a American actress and singer.

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Acting

She began appearing in commercials at just eight years old, 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. Hayden 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.[1] She has appeared in over a dozen full-length feature films,as well as several made-for-TV movies. In addition, she had a leading role as the voice of Kairi in the highly successful Kingdom Hearts series of video games for the Playstation 2. She also had a starring role in FOX's Ally McBeal and a recurring guest role in Malcolm in the Middle. She recently appeared on an episode of Punk'd, as an accomplice in punking her boyfriend, Stephen Colletti. She 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;[2] in this regard Panettiere followed in the footsteps of actresses Josie Bissett, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Mandy Moore, Kristin Kreuk, Mischa Barton, Gabrielle Union and Jennifer Freeman.

Panettiere was nominated for a Grammy in 1999 for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for A Bug's Life Read-Along [2000].[3] Hayden is currently working on her debut album, which has a planned release date of May 8, 2007 from Hollywood Records.

Selected filmography

Year Title Role Notes
2008 Fireflies in the Garden TBA
2007 Shanghai Kiss Adelaide
2006 Kingdom Hearts II Kairi Video game
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
2003 - 2005 Malcolm in the Middle Jessica TV series
2002 Kingdom Hearts Kairi Video game
2001-2002 Ally McBeal Maddie Harrington TV Series
2001 Joe Somebody Natalie Scheffer
2000 Remember the Titans Sheryl Yoast
Dinosaur Suri Voice
1999 Message in a Bottle Girl on Sinking Boat
1998 A Bug's Life Dot Voice
The Object of My Affection Mermaid
1996 Guiding Light Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Spaulding #2 (1996-2000) Soap Opera
1994 One Life to Live Sarah 'Flash' Roberts #3 (1994-1997) Soap Opera

Discography

Albums

Album Cover Album Information
Fallen Love
  • Release: May 8th, 2007 (U.S.)
  • Label: Hollywood Records
  • Peak U.S. Billboard: TBA
  • U.S. sales: TBA
  • RIAA certification: TBA
  • Singles:
    • 2006: "Your New Girlfriend" (Digital Download)
    • 2007: TBA

Soundtracks


Footnotes

  1. ^ Guiding Light News = 2000. Soap-News.com. Retrieved on January 30, 2007.
  2. ^ Hayden Panettiere (2006-11-16). Retrieved on January 30, 2007.
  3. ^ 1999 42nd Grammy Awards. Past Winners Database. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved on January 30, 2007.

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NAME Panettiere, Hayden
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION US actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Palisades, New York, USA
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH