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Hayden Lesley Panettiere (/ˌpænətiˈɛər/ PAN-ə-tee-AIR;[1] August 21, 1989 – August 16, 2026) was an American actress and singer. She starred as Claire Bennet on the NBC superhero series Heroes (2006–2010), Kirby Reed in the slasher horror franchise Scream (2011–2023), and Juliette Barnes in the ABC/CMT musical drama series Nashville (2012–2018). She received two nominations for acting in Nashville for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film. Panettiere first appeared on-screen in a commercial in 1990 when she was 11 months old. Her full-time acting career began in 1994 when she played Sarah Roberts in the ABC soap opera series One Life to Live until 1997. She played Lizzie Spaulding in the CBS soap opera series Guiding Light from 1996 to 2000. For her role as Princess Dot in the Pixar film A Bug's Life (1998), she was nominated for a Young Artist Award and a Grammy Award, making her the fifth-youngest nominee for a Grammy.[citation needed] Panettiere starred in the Lifetime film If You Believe (1999), the live-action animated drama adventure film Dinosaur and the biographical football film Remember the Titans (both 2000), the final season of the Fox legal comedy-drama series Ally McBeal (2002), the comedy-drama film Raising Helen and the Disney Channel film Tiger Cruise (both 2004), the horse racing comedy film Racing Stripes and the figure-skating drama film Ice Princess (both 2005), the teen cheerleading film Bring It On: All or Nothing (2006), the romantic comedy film I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009), the true crime drama film Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy (2011), and the drama Custody (2016). She voiced Kairi and Xion in the video game series Kingdom Hearts (2002–2017), and portrayed Samantha "Sam" Giddings in the video game Until Dawn (2015).
Hayden Panettiere
Libby Stephens
for Libby Stephens in Book Lovers
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One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming.... Nora Stephens’ life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby. Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away—with visions of a small-town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute. If Nora knows she’s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again—in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow—what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves.
