Hayden Panettiere
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Hayden Leslie Panettiere was born on August 21, 1989 Palisades, New York, USA. She is an American actress, singer, and a Grammy Award nominee.
Hayden began appearing in commercials at 11 months old, first appearing in an advertisement for Playskool Toy Train. 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.
Panettiere currently stars as Claire Bennet in the NBC series Heroes as a high school cheerleader with regenerative healing powers.
Panettiere was nominated for a Grammy in 1999 for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for A Bug's Life Read-Along.
Neutrogena made her the cover girl for their new worldwide ad campaign; following in the footsteps of actresses Josie Bissett, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Mandy Moore, Kristin Kreuk, Mischa Barton, Gabrielle Union and Jennifer Freeman.
She is currently working on her debut album, which was originally planned for release on May 8, 2007. The album, however, has been pushed back several times. It was first pushed back until August, then to December. Entertainment Weekly later confirmed that the album would be released in 2008.
Filmography
- Fireflies in the Garden (2008)
- "Heroes" (24 episodes, 2006-2007)
- Shanghai Kiss (2007)
- "Skater Boys" (1 episode, 2006)
- Bring It On: All or Nothing (2006)
- The Architect (2006)
- "Commander in Chief" (1 episode, 2006)
- Mr. Gibb (2006)
- Kingdom Hearts II (2005)
- "Malcolm in the Middle" (4 episodes, 2003-2005)
- Ice Princess (2005)
- Lies My Mother Told Me (2005)
- "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (2 episodes, 2001-2005)
- Racing Stripes (2005)
- The Dust Factory (2004)
- Tiger Cruise (2004)
- Raising Helen (2004)
- "Fillmore!" (1 episode, 2004)
- Normal (2003)
- The Mark of Kri (2002)
- "Ally McBeal" (11 episodes, 2002)
- Kingdom Hearts (2002)
- Joe Somebody (2001)
- The Affair of the Necklace (2001)
- Chestnut Hill (2001)
- Remember the Titans (2000)
- Dinosaur (2000)
- "The Guiding Light" (41 episodes, 1996-2000)
- If You Believe (1999)
- "Touched by an Angel" (1 episode, 1999)
- Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke (1999)
- Message in a Bottle (1999)
- A Bug's Life (1998)
- A Bug's Life (1998)
- "A Will of Their Own" (1998)
- The Object of My Affection (1998)
- How Do You Spell God? (1996)
- "Aliens in the Family" (1 episode, 1996)
- "One Life to Live" (1994-1997)












