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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).
Years after surviving multiple Ghostface massacres, Sydney Prescott has finally built a quiet life in Pine Grove, Indiana, with her husband Mark and teenage daughter Tatum. But Tatum resents living in her mother's shadow and being treated as though she is destined to become the next victim of the Prescott family curse. When a new Ghostface begins murdering people and claims to be the supposedly deceased Stu Macher, Sydney's carefully constructed life collapses. As the killer uses terrifying AI recreations of Stu, Dewey, Jill, Roman, and Maureen to psychologically torment Sydney, suspicion falls on Tatum, whose unexplained whereabouts during the murders make her a potential suspect. The killings become increasingly personal, claiming Tatum's friends and eventually putting her entire family in danger. Sydney and Gale Weathers attempt to uncover the killer's identity while Tatum struggles to prove that she isn't responsible for the bloodshed surrounding her. Their investigation ultimately leads to a horrifying confrontation at Tatum's school auditorium, where the truth is revealed: the supposed Stu Macher is an elaborate deception, and three people—Chloe Parker, Sydney's neighbor Jessica Bowden, and drama teacher George Willis—are behind the new Ghostface attacks. Their goal is to reinvent Ghostface as "pure" terror, without the personal trauma or complicated motivations that characterized the previous killers. In the climactic battle, Sydney, Tatum, Gale, and Chad fight back against the killers, forcing Tatum to finally step out of her mother's shadow and become her own survivor. Although the massacre leaves devastating casualties—including Mark and Ben—the surviving characters emerge determined to end the cycle of Ghostface violence once and for all.
