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, Lesley & Skip Panettiere
She takes karate & boxing lessons
Soap Opera Magazine's star of the week, 7/21/98 issue
Appeared on the Jay Leno show on December 30, 1998
For Hayden's character Lizzie's battle with leukemia, Guiding Light received a Special Recognition Award from The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society for bringing national awareness of leukemia to the attention of daytime viewers.
As Lizzie Spaulding on Guiding Light, Hayden has had to deal with difficult storylines in which she has 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, 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.
Hayden Panettiere Detailed Biography
Hayden Leslie Panettiere was born on 21st August 1989 in Palisades, New York. Her mom, Lesley, 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, 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 for her role as Lizzie Spaulding, whom she has portrayed since 1996, on the daytime drama Guiding Light. She even starred in Remember the Titans with Denzil Washington and Joe Somebody with Tim Allen.
Hayden lives (2004) in a suburb of New York City with her parents, younger brother, and a houseful of animals. When she is not playing Lizzie or working on one of her many movies, she enjoys singing, dancing, horseback riding, gymnastics, taking piano lessons, and swimming.
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 Guiding Light.
Hayden has starred in Remember the Titans with Denzil Washington and Joe Somebody with Tim Allen. She lives in a suburb of New York City with her parents, younger brother, and a houseful of animals. When Hayden isnt working on her movies, she enjoys singing, dancing, horseback riding, gymnastics, taking piano lessons, and swimming.
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. Her next movie is Raising Stripes, a partly animated film, but Hayden will star as 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 Lang, Tom Wilkinson, Jane Anderson and Clacy Brown in 'Normal' the movie 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 called, "Landscape of the Body", for the Williams town theatre festival, in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
