| Claire Bennet Played by Hayden Panettiere |
Claire Bennet played by Hayden Panettiere
Claire Bennet, a high school cheerleader in Odessa, Texas, who learns through trial-and-error that her flesh is indestructible.
Panettiere starred in the Lifetime original movie "Lies My Mother Told Me" opposite Joely Richardson and in The Disney Channel’s acclaimed "Tiger Cruise," based on the true events of September 11th. Her HBO film, "Normal," opposite Jessica Lange and Tom Wilkinson and directed by Jane Anderson, premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival.
Panettiere’s voice is as recognizable as her face. She embodied the challenging leading role as a jockey in "Racing Stripes," opposite the voices of Dustin Hoffman and Whoopi Goldberg. She also starred in Disney’s animated features "A Bug’s Life" as Princess Dot and "Dinosaurs" as Suri.
Adding to her accomplishments, Panettiere has been named the new face of Neutrogena.
She is an ambassador, along with fellow ambassadors Nelson Mandela and Queen Noor, for the ICUN Wildlife Foundation, an organization that helps raise funds to support and save endangered species. As of late, she has joined forces with Pierce Brosnan to save the whales through the Whaleman Foundation.
Panettierre lives in New York with her parents and younger brother.
