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Hayden Panettiere (b. August 24, 1989) stars in NBC's ensemble drama series Heroes, which follows the lives of ordinary people who discover they possess extraordinary abilities. Panettiere plays Claire Bennet, a high school cheerleader in Odessa, Texas, who learns through trial and error that her flesh is indestructible.

Most recently, Panettiere starred in the independent film The Architect, opposite Anthony LaPaglia and Isabella Rosselini, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, and in Mr. Gibb for Kevin Spacey's company, Triggerstreet. She co-stars in the romantic dramedy Shanghai Kiss, and leads Bring it On: All or Nothing, the sequel to Universal’s cheerleader epic Bring It On.

Training rigorously and executing her own stunts, she dazzled audiences in her role as a competitive ice skater in Ice Princess and recorded "I Fly" for the film’s soundtrack. Her spitfire characters in both Joe Somebody, as Tim Allen’s daughter, and in Remember the Titans, helped to establish her unique talents. Her other film credits include Raising Helen, directed by Garry Marshall; Message in a Bottle with Kevin Costner; Object of My Affection with Jennifer Aniston; and The Affair of the Necklace with Hilary Swank.

Panettiere starred in the Lifetime original movie Lies My Mother Told Me opposite Joely Richardson and in The Disney Channel's acclaimed Tiger Cruise, based on the true events of September 11th. Her HBO film, Normal, opposite Jessica Lange and Tom Wilkinson and directed by Jane Anderson, premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival.

Panettiere’s voice is as recognizable as her face. She embodied the challenging leading role as a jockey in Racing Stripes, which also included the voice talents of Dustin Hoffman and Whoopi Goldberg. She also starred in Disney’s animated features A Bug’s Life as Princess Dot and Dinosaurs as Suri. Her work for “A Bug’s Life Read-a-Long” garnered her a Grammy nomination for Best Spoken Word Album, as well as a nomination for The Hollywood Reporter’s Young Star Award for Best Young Voiceover Talent.