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Who is Hayden Panettiere?

Hayden Panettiere was born on the 21st August 1989 in Palisades, New York, USA. She is an actress, singer and Grammy Award nominee. She is perhaps best known for her role on the NBC series, Heroes, as Claire Bennet. She began professional modelling at the age of 8 months old. She then began appearing in commercials at 11 months, first appearing in an advertisement for Playskool. She later landed a role as Sarah Roberts on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live from 1994 to 1997 and later as the child Lizzie Spaulding on the CBS soap opera Guiding Light when she was eight years old (1997-2001). In Guiding Light, for her 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. She has appeared in over a dozen full-length feature films, as well as several made-for-TV movies. She provided the voice for Dot in the Pixar CGI animated movie A Bug's Life. In addition, she had a leading role as the voice of Kairi in the highly successful Kingdom Hearts series of video games. She had a starring role in Ally McBeal as Ally McBeal's daughter and a recurring guest role in Malcolm in the Middle. She also was in the film Remember the Titans.