Hayden Panettiere

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.

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.

Appeared on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (1992) on December 30, 1998.

2000: Was nominated for a Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for A Bug's Life (1998) Read-Along.

2000: Childstarlets.com's Actress of the Year.

Was originally cast to play Sarah Altman in Panic Room (2002) but was later replaced by Kristen Stewart.

Elder sister of Jansen Panettiere, with whom she co-starred in Tiger Cruise (2004) (TV). She always brought Jansen along, whenever possible, while filming on location.

She has known Spencer Breslin and Abigail Breslin (her Raising Helen (2004) co-stars) before they could talk.

Parents are: Lesley Vogel, a former soap opera actress; and Alan L. Skip Panettiere, a fire department lieutenant. Coincidentally, Hayden's first rescue on "Heroes" (2006/II) was from a train wreck fire.

In 2007, Forbes Magazine estimated her earnings for the year at $2 million.

Voted #6 in FHM 100 Sexiest 2007.

Ranked #13 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2008 list.

Ranked #1 on Wizard magazine's "Sexiest Women of TV" list (March 2008).

Ex-girlfriend of Milo Ventimiglia. They were together from 2008-2009.

Voted #5 in FHM 100 Sexiest 2008.

Ranked #11 in FHM's "Sexiest Women" list in 2008.

Along with other protesters including Isabel Lucas, Hayden Panettiere paddled out on surfboards to a pod of dolphins off the coast of Taiji/Japan to protest the killing of dolphins on Thursday 1st of November 2007. This action is mentioned in the documentary The Cove (2009).

Was ranked #30 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women of 2010 list.

Ranked #12 in the 2010 FHM UK list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World".

Despite impressing producers with her audition, she lost out the role of Ariel Moore in Footloose (2011) to Julianne Hough.

Ranked #21 in the 2011 FHM list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World".

Is being considered for the role of Ariel Moore in Footloose (2011) along with Miley Cyrus, Julianne Hough and Amanda Bynes.