Hayden Panettiere, 'Heroes' and 'Nashville' star, dies at 36

Hayden Panettiere, who spent virtually her entire life in the public eye — beginning before she could speak and ending at thirty-six — has died, leaving behind a daughter, a memoir, and a career that traced the full arc of what it means to grow up as both a person and a performance. Her father confirmed her passing and asked for privacy, offering no details beyond the weight of the loss itself. She is remembered not only for the roles she inhabited across three decades of American television and film, but for the courage she showed in later years when she turned the camera on herself — speakin