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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

Kirby Reed
for Kirby Reed in Scream 7 and 8 (Sam & Tara version)
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In hopes of Ghostface no longer following them, the core four move to Miami, the place where Tara was born during a trip Sam & Christina's had. Sam is still facing her inner demons as Ghostface strikes once again. They eventually seek the help of Gale and Kirby to stop the Ghostface killer. One of the killers is Hannah, a character who has a different personality from the actual Scream 7 we're getting but played by the same actress. The main killer turns out to be Christina, but Sam refuses to kill her. Christina tries to lure Sam into unleasing her true colors: she is a Ghostface killer deep down. Scream 7 ends with Tara killing Christina, then kicking out Sam from the Core Four (now becoming the Core Three) which unlocks Sam's motivation to become a Ghostface killer and target Tara. She returns to Woodsbro by herself without anyone knowing. In Scream 8, which takes place 1 year later, two Ghostface killers are hunting down Tara but Sam returns, attempting to "apologize" to Tara and earn her approval back by protecting her. The Ghostface killers turn out to be characters who no one knows, but later on, is revealed to be killers-in-hire by Sam to go after Tara with one of them being Sam's new boyfriend. Sam doesn't die, but gets arrested and accepts her fate. Tara becomes the new final girl in the end.