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\n Hayden Panettiere arriving for the 2011 MTV Europe Music Awards at the Odyssey Arena, Belfast (Niall Carson\/PA) PA<\/p>\n
US ACTRESS HAYDEN Panettiere, best known for her roles in Heroes and Nashville, has died aged 36.<\/p>\n
A representative for the actress confirmed the death to US network ABC on Sunday, saying her family would remember her \u201cincredible light\u201d who brought \u201cimmeasurable love and joy to all who knew her\u201d.<\/p>\n
The statement from her father Skip read: \u201cIt is with profound sadness that we share the tragic passing of our beloved Hayden.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was an incredible light and a force of nature who brought immeasurable love and joy to all who knew her \u2014 and to the millions who watched her onscreen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her father also asked that her family be given privacy as they \u201ctake time to process this unimaginable loss\u201d.<\/p>\n
No cause of death has been announced.<\/p>\n
\n Hayden Panettiere arriving for the 2011 MTV Europe Music Awards at the Odyssey Arena, Belfast (Niall Carson\/PA) PA<\/p>\n
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The 36-year-old began acting as a child, appearing in soap operas before gaining wider recognition for her role in the 2000 sports drama Remember The Titans alongside Denzel Washington, and as the voice of Dot in Pixar\u2019s 1998 film A Bug\u2019s Life.<\/p>\n
Panettiere later found fame playing cheerleader Claire Bennet in the superhero drama Heroes before going on to star as up-and-coming country singer Juliette Barnes for six seasons on the hit TV series Nashville.<\/p>\n
Her performances in Nashville earned her two Golden Globe nominations for best supporting actress, while her singing on the show produced 11 entries on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs charts.<\/p>\n
Panettiere film credits include 2006\u2019s Bring It On: All Or Nothing, comedy-drama film Raising Helen, and appearances in Scream 4 and Scream VI as Kirby Reed.<\/p>\n
Following her rapid rise to fame, the pressure of the industry began to weigh on Panettiere \u2013 with the actress previously revealing that she had struggled with addiction throughout her 20s.<\/p>\n
In a memoir published earlier this year, Panettiere opened up about her struggles with mental health, the loss of her younger brother, Jansen, and her decision to give full custody of her daughter Kyra to her former partner, Ukrainian boxer Wladimir Klitschko, in 2018.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe idea that anyone would think that I would just give away my child and be okay with it is heartbreaking and couldn\u2019t be further from the truth,\u201d she told podcaster Jay Shetty after the release of her memoir in May.<\/p>\n
Panettiere said her daughter had lived with her father full-time from a young age amid the actress\u2019s struggles with addiction and mental health.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cI was struggling with mental health and anxiety and the postpartum and having to act my way through it and just feeling like I completely lost myself.\u201d<\/p>\n
Actors\u2019 union Sag-Aftra, of which the actress had been a member since 1994, said in a post on X: \u201cWe mourn the sudden passing of Hayden Panettiere. A child actor, Hayden\u2019s long career in TV & film included memorable roles in \u2018Heroes,\u2019 \u2018Nashville\u2019 & more. Our hearts are with her daughter, family, friends & fans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US ACTRESS HAYDEN Panettiere, best known for her roles in Heroes and Nashville, has died aged 36. A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,2109,18,117,46660,54692,19,17,37743,4222],"class_list":["post-641327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-hayden-panettiere","tag-heroes","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-nashville","tag-us-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}