Hayden Leslie Panettiere (born August 21, 1989) is an American actress, singer, and a Grammy Award nominee. She was born on August 21, 1989 to Skip and Leslie Panettiere. She has one younger brother, Jansen Panettiere and she has a younger sister named Sarah Louise (she was adopted from Asia)(b. 1991)

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.

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