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Hayden Leslie Panettiere (born August
21, 1989) is an American actress and singer.
Hayden began appearing in commercials at 11 months old,
first appearing in an advertisement for Playskool Toy
Train. She later landed 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.
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 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, 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]. Hayden is currently working on her
debut album, which was originally planned for release on
May 8, 2007. The album, however has been pushed back and
is now expected to be released in August 2007 from
Hollywood Records.
In the June 2007 issue of FHM, Hayden was named as the
6th Sexiest Woman in the world and the highest new entry
of the year.
Since she was 11 months old, when she began her career
by appearing in a commercial for Playskool, actress
Hayden Panettiere consistently worked on television and
in feature films. Her mother – a former actress –
thought she would get some nice baby pictures out of
seeing her only daughter in commercials, which
precipitated bringing her on auditions. At four
years-old, she landed a regular role as Sarah Roberts on
the daytime soap opera “One Life to Live” (ABC,
1968- ), where she stayed until 1996. She went on to
land another regular role on daytime as Lizzie Spaulding
in “Guiding Light” (CBS, 1952- ), while appearing in
guest spots on the short-lived sci-fi comedy “Aliens
in the Family” (ABC, 1996) and “Touched by an
Angel” (CBS, 1994-2003).
Though her official film debut was in the festival dark
comedy “Pants on Fire” (1997), her first
theatrically released movie was “Object of My
Affection” (1998), starring Jennifer Aniston. After
voicing Princess Dot in “A Bug’s Life” (1998), she
got a small part in “Message in a Bottle” (1999) as
a girl on a sinking boat, then played the 10-12 year-old
version of Doris Duke, an eccentric heiress who
inherited $100 million at 13, in “Too Rich: The Secret
Life of Doris Duke” (CBS, 1999).
While maintaining a steady acting
career, Panettiere attended South Orangetown Middle
School in her native New York, but in eighth grade
started home schooling instead. Meanwhile, she gained
more prominent feature roles, including one in
“Remember the Titans” (2000) where she played a
nine-year-old football-obsessed daughter of a demoted
high school coach – a role she played with
considerable pluck.
After voicing Suri, the tomboy dinosaur daughter in
“Dinosaur” (2000), Panettiere played yet another
feisty and precocious pre-teen in “Joe Somebody”
(2000), the woebegone Tim Allen comedy about a
beaten-down loser who finally gets his chance to become
somebody. She then played a Young Jeanne to Hilary
Swank’s older Comtesse Jeanne de la Motte-Valois in
“The Affair of the Necklace” (2001), a dry and
pretentious period film about a cunning woman (Swank)
who masterminds a conspiracy to incriminate the rich and
famous in the waning years of 18th century France.
Panettiere returned to television with a
regular role in the final season of “Ally McBeal”
(Fox, 1997-2002), appearing as Maddie Harrington, the
long-lost daughter of Ally (Calista Flockhart) who was
the result of an egg donation gone wrong from ten years
before. Meanwhile, Panettiere continued her string of
playing spirited teens in the much-maligned “Raising
Helen” (2003), playing a troubled 15-year-old suddenly
in the care of her happy-go-lucky fashion model
sister-in-law (Kate Hudson).
In “Normal” (HBO, 2003), she played the teenage
daughter struggling to figure out why her dad (Tom
Wilkinson) suddenly wants to have a sex change
operation. She next appeared as a precocious and
beautiful girl who befriends a teenager (Ryan Kelley)
after a near-fatal accident propels him into a fantasy
world in the little-seen fairy tale, “The Dust
Factory” (2003). In “Tiger Cruise” (2004), a
Disney Channel original movie, she played the daughter
of a Navy commander (Bill Pulman) who tries to convince
her dad to retire in the midst of the sudden
mobilization of his ship to deal with the events of
September 11, 2001.
For “Racing Stripes” (2005), she
traveled to South Africa to frolic with live zebras,
appearing as one of two flesh-and-blood characters in
the otherwise animated Warner Bros. feature. Next up,
she landed a leading role in “Ice Princess” (2005),
playing Gen Harwood, a skating prodigy who is ruthlessly
competing on the US National circuit. Though reviews
were mixed, box office totals were definitive: the
Disney coming-of-age drama failed to impress the most
discerning of judges – the audience.
Panettiere next starred in the second straight-to-video
sequel “Bring It On: All or Nothing” (2006), playing
the daughter of wealthy parents who tries to make the
cheerleading squad at her new high school after moving
to a less-than-desirable neighborhood. After appearing
in an episode of the failed “Commander in Chief”
(ABC, 2005-06), she played the innocent and unaware
daughter of an expert con artist (Joely Richardson) who
resorts to murder and deception to cover her dark past.
She returned to the silver screen to
costar in “The Architect” (2006), playing the
sexually curious teenage daughter of an idealistic
architect (Anthony LaPaglia) whose involvement in the
demolition of a dangerous Chicago housing project forces
him to confront issues with his family he’d rather not
face.
Already a fast rising up-and-comer, Panettiere was
vaulted into the limelight with “Heroes” (NBC, 2006-
), a comic book-like drama about 11 seemingly ordinary
people from around the world who begin to discover they
have supernatural powers because of gene mutations
they’ve had since birth. Panettiere was one of the
central characters in the ensemble cast, playing Claire
Bennet, a high school cheerleader who learns that
she’s indestructible and becomes a target for
destruction by Sylar (Zachary Quinto), an unhinged
wanna-be superhero on a mission to kill the others in
order to gain their special powers.
The mission to save Panettiere’s
character led the other heroes to “Save the
cheerleader, save the world” – a catchy line of
dialogue-turned-slick advertising catchphrase that
introduced a brief, but memorable addition to the
cultural zeitgeist. |
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