HAYDEN PANETTIERE > TRIVIA
Full Name: Hayden Leslie Panettiere
BirthDate: August 21, 1989
BirthPlace: Palisades, New York
Parents: Skip and Lesley
Siblings: Younger brother, Jansen
Nicknames: Mushroom, Hayde
Height: 5' 1" (1.55 m)
Hayden began her acting career at 11 months when she appeared in a commercial for Playskool.
She has appeared in over 50 commercials.
She was Childstarlets.com's Actress of the Year in 2000.
Her parents are Lesley and Skip Panettiere.
She takes karate and boxing lessons.
She was named Soap Opera Magazine's star of the week, 7/21/98 issue.
She 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.
She was nominated for a Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for A Bug's Life Read-Along [2000]
Her 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.
Hayden was originally cast to play Sarah Altman in Panic Room (2002) but was later replaced by Kristen Stewart.
She is the older sister of Jansen Panettiere.
She has known Spencer Breslin and Abigail Breslin (her Raising Helen (2004) co-stars) since before they could talk.
Her last name is pronounced "Pan-Uh-Tee-Air-Ee"; the Italian translation is "Baker".
She hs 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.
She is of Italian decent.