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Celebrity Feature: Hayden Panettiere

Saturday, February 28, 2009 | Labels: , | 1 comments |

Hayden Panettiere in Heroes tv showHayden Panettiere was first known for her character of Sheryl Yoast in Disney's Remember the Titans. But her biggest breakthrough came when she landed the role of Claire Bennet, a high school cheerleader with regenerative healing powers, in the hit NBC tv series Heroes.

Born on August 21, 1989, 19-year-old Hayden was raised in Palisades, Rockland County, New York. She began modeling at the age of four months and started appearing in commercials at 11 months. Before appearing in Heroes, she was cast in soap operas and appeared in several full-length feature films and made-for-television movies.

Hayden provided the voice for Dot in A Bug's Life, starred in Bring It On: All or Nothing as a cheerleader, and had a supporting role in the independent film Shanghai Kiss. She also appeared in Tiger Cruise, Raising Helen, and Fireflies in the Garden. She even recorded songs for Tiger Cruise, Ice Princess, Bridge to Terabithia, and Cinderella III: A Twist in Time soundtracks.

TV Show Feature: MacGyver

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MacGyver tv showMacGyver is an American adventure television series, about the laid-back, extremely resourceful secret agent MacGyver, played by Richard Dean Anderson. The show highlights MacGyver's adventures working for the United States government, and then later at the Phoenix Foundation.

Created by Lee David Zlotoff, the tv show ran for seven seasons from September 29, 1985 to January 13, 1992 and was shot in United States and Canada. In addition, two made-for-television movies were produced in 1994.

The series revolved around Angus MacGyver (known to his friends as MacGyver or "Mac") who favors brain over brawn in order to solve desperate problems. His main asset is his practical application of scientific knowledge and inventive use of common items—along with his ever-present Swiss Army knife. The clever solutions he implemented to seemingly intractable problems—often in life-or-death situations requiring him to improvise complex devices in a matter of minutes—were a major attraction of the show. The series was also praised for generating interest in the applied sciences, and particularly engineering.