{"id":434995,"date":"2026-08-17T04:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T04:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/434995\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T04:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T04:10:10","slug":"actress-hayden-panettiere-dies-at-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/434995\/","title":{"rendered":"Actress Hayden Panettiere dies at 36"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jxTEW Poyse ouIFx uieav lqtkC HkWF HfYhe kGyAC \">Her representative confirmed her death to ABC News.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ABCNews logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/origin-abcnews.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Monday, August 17, 2026 3:26AM<\/p>\n<p>Actress Hayden Panettiere has died, her representative confirmed to ABC News on Sunday. She was 36 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Actress Hayden Panettiere has died, her representative confirmed to ABC News. She was 36 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;It is with profound sadness that we share the tragic passing of our beloved Hayden. She was an incredible light and a force of nature who brought immeasurable love and joy to all who knew her &#8212; and to the millions who watched her onscreen,&#8221; her representative said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Further details surrounding Panettiere&#8217;s death were not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Beginning as a child star, with a long career in both TV and film, Panettiere is remembered for her roles as Claire Bennet on the hit series &#8220;Heroes&#8221; and as Juliette Barnes on the musical drama &#8220;Nashville.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">She also starred in &#8220;Remember the Titans,&#8221; &#8220;Raising Helen,&#8221; &#8220;Ice Princess&#8221; and &#8220;Scream 4.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Panettiere has been candid about her struggles from child stardom through adulthood. She released a memoir this May titled &#8220;This Is Me: A Reckoning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ABC News Internet Ventures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Her representative confirmed her death to ABC News. Monday, August 17, 2026 3:26AM Actress Hayden Panettiere has died,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[172680,8986,112,114,113,974],"class_list":["post-434995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-172680","tag-abc-news","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}