Hayden Panettiere
ALL ABOUT HAYDEN PANETTIERE
Full Name: Hayden Leslie Panettiere
Date of Birth: 21 August 1989
Place of Birth: Palisades, New York, USA
Education: South Orangetown Middle School in New York (but in 8th grade started home schooling)
Relationship: Stephen Colletti (actor; born on February 7, 1986)
Family: Father - Skip Panettiere, Mother - Leslie Vogel, Brother - Jansent Panettiere (younger)
Bio:
Hayden Leslie Panettiere was born on 21st August 1989 in Palisades, New York. Hayden still lives with her parents Lesley & Skip and younger brother Jansen. Her mom got Hayden started in the business by doing commercials when she was just 11 months old. Then at only 4 1/2 she was cast on the soap opera One Life To Live, where she remained until 1997. Since then, she has gone on to appear in many feature films and TV movies. Before ‘Heroes’ Hayden was probably best known in the United States for her role as Lizzie Spaulding, whom she has portrayed since 1996, on the daytime drama Guiding Light.
Hayden has starred in Remember the Titans with Denzil Washington and Joe Somebody with Tim Allen. Hayden grew up in a suburb of New York City with her parents, younger brother, Jansen, and a houseful of animals. She recently made the move to Los Angeles because her role in ‘Heroes’ demands her to be on set filming almost all week. When Hayden isn’t working, she enjoys hanging with her friends, singing, dancing, equestrian, volleyball, and has even tried her hand in surfing!
Hayden has been involved with many animated movies, beginning with A Bug’s Life (as Dot), later to follow was Dinosaur. Kingdom Hearts and The Mark of Kri, were also voice overs but for Playstation 2 Video Games. Hayden then joined the likes of Jessica Lang, Tom Wilkinson, Jane Anderson and Clacy Brown in ‘Normal’ the movie about a midwestern husband and father that announces his plans to have a sex change operation, the movie made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival. Also in July 2003 Hayden appeared in a John Guare play called, “Landscape of the Body”, for the Williams town theatre festival, in Williamstown Massachusetts. ‘Raising Helen’ co-staring with Kate Hudson, was a big hit for Hayden, opening the eyes of many young teenagers. The Dust Factory where she has the star lead as Melanie Lewis, ‘Tiger Cruise’ co-staring Bill Pullman a movie based on the September 11th events did well as a tv movies. Hayden sang the movie theme song for the movie.
Racing Stripes has also been great for Hayden internationally. The movie was a big success for not just kids but adults too. Hayden recently released Disney’s Ice princess co-staring Michelle Trachtenberg, which made it to number 3 at the box office. Shortly after the TV Movie, Lies My Mother Told Me was released on Lifetime Television, Hayden co-stared with Joely Richardson.
More recently, Hayden starred in the independent film “The Architect” opposite Anthony LaPaglia and Isabella Rosselini which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, and “Mr. Gibb” for Kevin Spacey’s company, Triggerstreet. Hayden has the lead in teen movie “Bring it On: All or Nothing,” the sequel to Universal’s box office hit. She co-stars in the upcoming romantic comedy”Shanghai Kiss”.
Most recently Hayden stars as Claire Bennet, a high school cheerleader in Odessa, Texas, who learns through trial-and-error that her flesh is indestructible. “Heroes” follows the lives of ordinary people who discover they possess extraordinary abilities. Starring opposite Greg Grunberg, Ali Larter and others. This show has been a huge success and can be seen on Mondays at 9/8c . Hayden has signed on for a 6 year contract.
Adding to her accomplishments, Hayden has been named the new face of Neutrogena and has appeared in both print and tv ads. She is an ambassador, along with fellow ambassadors Nelson Mandela and Queen Noor, for the ICUN Wildlife Foundation, an organization that helps raise funds to support and save endangered species. She recently received Movieline’s Hollywood Life Magazine’s Young Hollywood Exciting New Face/ Female Award for 2005. She also has been spending time in the recording studio working on her own debut CD through Hollywood Records. Her debut album is due in May 2007. “I am very excited because I am in negotiations with a record company. Singing has always been a passion of mine and it’s really great to be able to have both experiences, singing and acting. In acting you are portraying someone other then yourself and in singing you get to be yourself “.
Trivia:
Began her acting career at 11 months when she appeared in a commercial for Playskool
Has appeared in over 50 commercials
Childstarlets.com’s Actress of the Year, 2000
Parents are Lesley and Skip Panettiere
She takes karate and boxing lessons
Soap Opera Magazine’s star of the week, 7/21/98 issue
Appeared on the Jay Leno show on December 30, 1998
In “The Guiding Light” (1952), 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.
As Lizzie Spaulding on “The Guiding Light” (1952), Hayden had to deal with difficult story lines in which she shot and killed her mother’s abuser, been kidnapped, gone through both of her parents remarrying, and just recently battled leukemia.
Was nominated for a Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for A Bug’s Life Read-Along [2000]
Hobbies include singing, dancing, horseback riding, gymnastics, taking piano lessons, taking karate lessons, taking boxing lessons and swimming.
Her last name was printed wrong in an issue of the “Discovery Girls” magazine where she was considered an “Exceptional Tween.”
Her mother used to be an actress.
Was originally cast to play Sarah Altman in Panic Room (2002) but was later replaced by Kristen Stewart.
Older sister of Jansen Panettiere.
She has known Spencer Breslin and Abigail Breslin (her Raising Helen (2004) co-stars) before they could talk.
Her last name is pronounced “Pan-Uh-Tee-Air-Ee”; the Italian translation is “Baker”.
Has a partnership with United States Postal Inspection Service and the National Center For Missing And Exploited Children in a campaign against online predators, called 2 SMRT 4U.
Her official Myspace friends include ‘Tabitha Fair’ , Andrew Johnston, Jesse McCartney, Jessy Moss and Adam Watts.
Of Italian descent.
She performed the love theme, “I Still Believe,” from Cinderella III: A Twist in Time.
Is best friends with Daniella Morris.
Has two dogs, named Penny Lane and Madison.
Quotes:
“When the camera comes on, I am not Hayden any more, I am Lizzie!”
“I hate how people say I’m growing up fast.”
(Growing up in public is hard because…)”You go on these Internet blogs and people say the meanest things. I’m a normal person. Just because I’m in the spotlight doesn’t mean I’m God’s gift to the world. I’m learning and making mistakes just like every other 17-year-old girl out there.”
“It’s like the string around the finger where it’s just alittle reminder everyday when you look down at it and go,I like myself.I want to be around.I want to keep myself safe.”
“Is like the little girl equivalent of Haley Joel Osment in terms of poise, but with sass to spare and movie star looks that probably will not distort with age. I mean, we’re talking a little Ann-Margret here. It may be a good idea for her parents to invest in one of those house arrest ankle bracelets now. She’s gonna be serious trouble in a few years.”
(When asked about working with big name actors like Nicole Kidman and Hilary Swank) “It is really cool. They don’t act famous, they’re nice, normal people. During the filming of Titans, I’d race on the field with Denzel, passing a football. He likes to kid around.”
Filmography:
Hayden Panettiere Filmography as an Actress:
2006 Heroes [TV Series]
2006 Bring It On: All or Nothing
2006 The Architect
2005 Racing Stripes
2005 Lies My Mother Told Me
2005 Ice Princess
2004 The Dust Factory
2004 Raising Helen
2003 Normal
2002 Ally McBeal: Bygones
2002 Ally McBeal: What I’ll Never Do for Love Again
2002 Ally McBeal: Tom Dooly
2002 Ally McBeal: Love Is All Around, Part 1
2002 Ally McBeal: Homecoming
2002 Ally McBeal: The New Day
2002 Ally McBeal: All of Me
2002 Ally McBeal: Another One Bites the Dust
2002 Ally McBeal: Love Is All Around, Part 2
2002 Ally McBeal: Heart and Soul
2002 Ally McBeal: Woman
2002 Ally McBeal: A Kick in the Head
2001 The Affair of the Necklace
2001 Joe Somebody
2000 Remember the Titans
2000 Dinosaur
1998 A Bug’s Life
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