Actress Hayden Panettiere dies aged 36

Actress Hayden Panettiere, who starred in TV shows Heroes and Nashville has died aged 36.

The details surrounding her death were not immediately available.

In a statement reported by the BBC’s US partner CBS News, her father Skip Panettiere described her as “an incredible light and a force of nature who brought immeasurable love and joy to all who knew her and to the millions who watched her onscreen”.

She began her career as a child actor, and was just four years old when cast on popular US soap opera One Life to Live.

Panettiere went on to play a cheerleader with superpowers in Heroes – which ran from 2006 to 2020 – and had other memorable roles, including in films Remember the Titans and Raising Helen.

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