Hayden Leslie Panettiere (born August 21, 1989) is an American actress, singer, and a Grammy Award nominee.
Family
She was born on August 21, 1989 to Skip and Leslie Panettiere.[citation needed] She has one younger brother, Jansen Panettiere.[citation needed] She has been dating MTV's Laguna Beach cast member, Stephen Colletti, since summer 2006.
Career
Film and television
Hayden began appearing in commercials at 11 months old, first appearing in an advertisement for Playskool Toy Train. She later landed a role as Sarah Roberts on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live (1994- 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 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.
