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Hayden Lesley Panettiere was born on August 21, 1989 in Palisades, New York, to actress Lesley Vogel and fire department captain Skip Panettiere. Her younger brother was actor Jansen Panettiere (1994-2023). Her parents are both of half Italian descent, along with German and English. Her mother got her 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 (1968), where she remained until 1997. Since then, she has gone on to appear in many feature films and TV movies. But she is probably best known in the United States for her role as "Claire" on the hit TV show, Heroes (2006).

As for movies, Hayden starred in Remember the Titans (2000) with Denzel Washington and Joe Somebody (2001) with Tim Allen. When Hayden isn't working, she enjoys singing, dancing, horseback riding, gymnastics, taking piano lessons, and swimming.

She has been involved with many animated movies, beginning with A Bug's Life (1998) as "Dot", later to follow was Dinosaur (2000), the video game Kingdom Hearts (2002), and The Mark of Kri (2002). Her next movie is Racing Stripes (2005), a partly animated film, but Hayden will star in the human role; other cast members include the voices of Whoopi Goldberg, Dustin Hoffman, Joshua Jackson and Mandy Moore.

In 2003, she joined the likes of Jessica Lange, Tom Wilkinson and Clancy Brown in Jane Anderson's Normal (2003), a film about a Midwestern husband and father who announces his plans to have a sex-change operation. In July of the same year, Hayden appeared in a John Guare play, "Landscape of the Body", for the Williamstown theater festival in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

(1998) TV commercial: Hershey&#39;s Cookies and Creme.

(1998) Narrated <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0120623/?ref_=nmwrk">A Bug&#39;s Life (1998)</a> Read-Along.

(2005) TV commercial: Neutrogena blackhead eliminating scrub.

(2005) TV commercial: Neutrogena oil-free acne wash.

(2008) TV commercial: Neutrogena (Canada).

(2008) Has her own line of Dooney &amp; Bourke leather purses.

(2010) TV commercial / web advertisement (Canada): Neutrogena SkinID personalized acne treatment.

(2007) Performed the song &quot;Home&quot; for <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0469184/?ref_=nmwrk">Shanghai Kiss (2007)</a>. It was written by <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0457598/?ref_=nmwrk">David Kitay</a> and <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0046412/?ref_=nmwrk">David Baerwald</a>.

(2012) Print ads: Neutrogena&#39;s Shine control cosmetics.

(2013) Print public service notices from the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery (ASDS) for skin cancer and tanning beds awareness.

(2013) TV commercial: Neutrogena Oil-Free Moisturiser.

(9/13-9/14) TV commercial: &quot;The Fabric of <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0659363/?ref_=nmwrk">Hayden Panettiere</a>&#39;s Life,&quot; for Cotton Incorporated (a.k.a. Cotton, The Fabric of Our Lives).

(2/14) TV commercial: Cotton, The Fabric of Our Lives entitled &quot;Search Hayden&#39;s Closet.&quot;

(5/14) Print ad: &quot;Hayden Panettiere&#39;s idea of perfect skin?&quot; for the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery (ASDS)&#39;s ChooseSkinHealth.com.

(2000) Was nominated for a Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0120623/?ref_=nmwrk">A Bug&#39;s Life (1998)</a> Read-Along.

(2000) Childstarlets.com&#39;s Actress of the Year.

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