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Hayden Lesley Panettiere (/ˌpænətiˈɛər/ PAN-ə-tee-AIR;[1] August 21, 1989 – August 16, 2026) was an American actress and singer. She starred as Claire Bennet on the NBC superhero series Heroes (2006–2010), Kirby Reed in the slasher horror franchise Scream (2011–2023), and Juliette Barnes in the ABC/CMT musical drama series Nashville (2012–2018). She received two nominations for acting in Nashville for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film. Panettiere first appeared on-screen in a commercial in 1990 when she was 11 months old. Her full-time acting career began in 1994 when she played Sarah Roberts in the ABC soap opera series One Life to Live until 1997. She played Lizzie Spaulding in the CBS soap opera series Guiding Light from 1996 to 2000. For her role as Princess Dot in the Pixar film A Bug's Life (1998), she was nominated for a Young Artist Award and a Grammy Award, making her the fifth-youngest nominee for a Grammy.[citation needed] Panettiere starred in the Lifetime film If You Believe (1999), the live-action animated drama adventure film Dinosaur and the biographical football film Remember the Titans (both 2000), the final season of the Fox legal comedy-drama series Ally McBeal (2002), the comedy-drama film Raising Helen and the Disney Channel film Tiger Cruise (both 2004), the horse racing comedy film Racing Stripes and the figure-skating drama film Ice Princess (both 2005), the teen cheerleading film Bring It On: All or Nothing (2006), the romantic comedy film I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009), the true crime drama film Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy (2011), and the drama Custody (2016). She voiced Kairi and Xion in the video game series Kingdom Hearts (2002–2017), and portrayed Samantha "Sam" Giddings in the video game Until Dawn (2015).
A decade after the original Woodsboro murders, a new killer emerges wearing the iconic Ghostface mask, targeting a new generation of teenagers in the same small town. Sidney Prescott, now a successful author, returns home to promote her book only to find herself caught in another deadly game. As the body count rises, Sidney must reunite with her old allies—Gale Weathers and Dewey Riley—to uncover the killer's identity and motivation. The film deconstructs horror movie remakes and reboots while delivering genuine scares and shocking twists. With meta-commentary on sequels and the evolution of horror cinema, Scream 4 balances self-aware humor with brutal violence. The mystery deepens as the survivors question who among their circle might be the killer, leading to a climactic revelation that challenges everything they thought they knew about the original murders.
