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Hayden Leslie Panettiere (born August 21, 1989) is an American actress, singer, and Grammy Award nominee. She is perhaps best known for her role on the NBC series Heroes as Claire Bennet. She also appeared as the voice actress for the role of Kairi in the Square Enix Kingdom Hearts series. 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). Born in Palisades, New York, Panettiere is the daughter of Lesley R. Vogel, a former soap opera actress, and Alan L. "Skip" Panettiere, a fire department lieutenant. She has one younger brother, fellow actor Jansen Panettiere. Panettiere attended South Orangetown Middle School in New York but following 7th grade, finished her high-school education via home schooling and has postponed higher education in favor of an acting career, although she has expressed an interest in "continuing to learn." Panettiere began modeling at the age of 5 months. She then began appearing in commercials at 11 months, first appearing in an advertisement for Playskool. She landed a role as Sarah Roberts on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live (1994- 1997) and later as Lizzie Spaulding on the CBS soap opera Guiding Light when she was seven years old (1996 - 2000). While on Guiding Light, Panettiere's character Lizzie battled 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. 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. Panettiere appears as Claire Bennet in the NBC series Heroes as a high school cheerleader with regenerative healing powers. Due to her role on Heroes, she became a regular on the science fiction convention circuit, invited to attend conventions around the world in 2007, including New York Comic-Con and Fan Expo Canada. In regards to the roles she has played, Panettiere admitted that options are sometimes limited because "people look at her as either the 'popular cheerleader' type or just 'the blonde'." 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). She has appeared in over a dozen full-length feature films, as well as several made-for-TV movies. She provided the voice for Dot in the Pixar CGI animated movie A Bug's Life for Disney. She also played the role of Coach Yoast's daughter, Sheryl, in the 2000 Disney film Remember The Titans. In addition, she appeared as the voice of Kairi in the Kingdom Hearts series of video games for the Playstation 2. Panettiere appeared on FOX's Ally McBeal as Ally McBeal's daughter, and had a recurring guest role on Malcolm in the Middle and guest starred in Law & Order: SVU. She starred in Bring It On: All or Nothing as a cheerleader and had a supporting role as Adelaide Bourbon in the recently released independent film Shanghai Kiss. She also appeared in the Disney Channel Original Movie Tiger Cruise playing the main role of an Navy brat. 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 She appeared in the upcoming drama film Fireflies in the Garden as a younger version of Emily Watson's character, Jane Lawrence. In June 2007, she signed with the William Morris Agency, after previously being represented by United Talent Agency. Forbes estimated that she earned $2 million in 2007.In early 2007, Panettiere appeared on the syndicated Ashton Kutcher-produced show, Punk'd. The appearance was engineered by her mother and involved a male "fan" discussing her work with her, instigating a jealous reaction from the man's spouse. 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. Panettiere was nominated for a Grammy in 1999 for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for A Bug's Life Read Along 2000. Panettiere is featured on the soundtrack to Bring It On: All or Nothing alongside her co-star Solange Knowles. She recorded a song called "My Hero Is You" with a video for the Disney Channel movie she starred in, Tiger Cruise. She recorded a song titled "I Fly" for the Disney movie Ice Princess she co-starred in. She recorded a song for the compilation Girlnext. She also recorded a cover for Disneymania 5. She recorded a song titled "Try" for the 2007 Bridge to Terabithia soundtrack and a ballad called "I Still Believe" for Cinderella III: A Twist in Time. In late 2006, Neutrogena made Panettiere the cover girl for their new worldwide ad campaign; following in the footsteps of actresses Kristin Kreuk, Josie Bissett, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Mandy Moore, Mischa Barton, Gabrielle Union and Jennifer Freeman. In September 2007, Panettiere appeared in a Heroes-themed Got Milk? ad photographed by Annie Leibovitz. In February 2008, Kohl's announced that Panettiere would be their next Candie's spokesperson. She will be following the likes of Fergie and Hilary Duff. In 2006, Panettiere began dating Stephen Colletti, the former Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, star. The couple broke up in September 2007. In December 2007, it was widely reported that she was dating her Heroes costar Milo Ventimiglia, though Panettiere has denied these reports in an interview with GQ. These reports have continued through the early part of 2008,and several sources have reported that Panettiere has asked Ventimiglia to move in with her. On Tuesday 22 April 2008, Milo confirmed on the BBC radio one Breakfast Show that he is indeed dating Hayden Panettiere. On October 31, 2007, Panettiere participated in the activity of Sea Shepherd to try to disrupt the annual dolphin hunt in Taiji, Wakayama, Japan. But, she was involved in a confrontation between Japanese fishermen and five other surfers from Australia and the United States (including former Home and Away star Isabel Lucas) of the group. The confrontation lasted more than ten minutes before the surfers were forced to return to the beach, after which they left the country. The fishermen consider the condemnation as an attack on their culture. Panettiere told E! News that an arrest warrant has been issued in Japan for her interference in the dolphin hunt. In November 2007, she was awarded the "Compassion in Action Award" from the animal rights group PETA for her efforts to stop the dolphin hunt in Japan. She is also a vegetarian. On January 28, 2008, Panettiere handed a letter of protest to the Norwegian ambassador in the United States arguing that Norway should stop its hunt for whales. She also delivered a letter to the Japanese ambassador calling for the end of Japan's hunting of whales. In 2007, Panettiere became an official supporter of Ronald McDonald House Charities and is a member of their celebrity board, called the Friends of RMHC. |
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