bio
Date of Birth
21 August 1989, Palisades, New York, USA


Birth Name
Hayden Leslie Panettiere


Nickname
Mushroom
Hayd


Height
5' 1" (1.55 m)


Mini Biography
Hayden Leslie Panettiere was born on 21st August 1989 in Palisades, New York. She still lives in New York with her parents, Lesley and Skip, and younger brother Jansen. Her mom 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 Lizzie Spaulding, whom she has portrayed since 1996, on the daytime drama "The Guiding Light" (1952).

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) (VG), and The Mark of Kri (2002) (VG). 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) (TV) 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 Williams town theater festival in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Dragana Jovic


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, Daniella Morris, 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 (2007) (V).

Is best friends with Daniella Morris.

Has two dogs, named Penny Lane and Madison.



Personal 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."


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