Actor Hayden Panettiere, recognized for ‘Heroes,’ ‘Nashville,’ dies at 36

Actor Hayden Panettiere has died, her father stated in a press release Sunday night time. She was 36.

“It’s with profound unhappiness that we share the tragic passing of our beloved Hayden,” her father Skip Panettiere stated in a press release supplied by the actor’s consultant.

The trigger and method of dying weren’t supplied. Her publicist, Kasey Kitchen, stated Panettiere’s dying was being investigated.

“There’s an investigation ongoing,” Kitchen stated in a press release. “We should always know extra tomorrow.”

Police in Greenville, South Carolina, stated in a press release that officers “accompanied by EMS personnel, responded to a report of an unresponsive feminine” at round 1:50 p.m. Sunday. “Upon arrival, medical help was administered; nonetheless, the person, later recognized as Hayden Panettiere, was pronounced deceased on the scene,” police stated in a press release.

“The case is beneath investigation by the Greenville Police Division together with the Greenville County Coroner’s Workplace. The preliminary investigation has not indicated any indicators of foul play or suspicious circumstances. An acquaintance of Ms. Panettiere positioned the 911 name,” it stated. The assertion added that no additional particulars have been accessible for launch at the moment.

Panettiere revealed this yr that she struggled with postpartum melancholy and habit, which she stated led to her determination to surrender custody of her solely little one, daughter Kaya Evdokia Klitschko, in 2018, whom she had with former accomplice and Ukrainian skilled boxer Wladimir Klitschko.

Panettiere just lately revealed a memoir, “That is Me: A Reckoning,” which generated headlines over its revelations, together with about her previous relationships.

In 2024, she described ache and grief after her youthful brother died unexpectedly of an undiagnosed coronary heart situation the earlier yr.

“While you lose someone that that you simply noticed in all of the vital moments in your life, standing proper subsequent to you, it simply rocks your world,” she informed the “TODAY” present.

The actor was born and raised in Palisades, New York, about 40 miles north of New York Metropolis, in line with her Tv Academy bio.

Panettiere began working at 11 months outdated, when she appeared in tv commercials, it stated.

She appeared on cleaning soap operas, together with “One Life to Reside” and “Guiding Mild,” starting at age 4. Her voice was featured on “A Bug’s Life,” the animated function, and he or she ultimately appeared in big-screen tales, together with “Bear in mind the Titans,” and “Convey it On: All or Nothing.”

Certainly one of her most impactful roles was as Juliette Barnes on tv’s “Nashville.” Earlier than that, she was Claire Bennet on the 2000s present “Heroes.”

Her time capturing “Nashville” included the strain of getting had a child and experiencing postpartum melancholy, she stated, and at instances it was an excessive amount of.

“That’s why I turned to substances — as a result of the anxiousness that I began having, the panic assaults that I began having,” she stated in a tearful interview on the Jay Shetty Podcast in Might.

Hayden Panettiere is setting the document straight.

Panettiere stated she at all times wished to be a mom however mentioned her unhappiness amid her postpartum melancholy battle.

“I had this stunning plan in my head, after which I had my daughter and I knew one thing was simply terribly, terribly improper,” she stated on the podcast. “I used to be depressing. I used to be in tears on a regular basis. Though the alcohol helped my nervous system settle down, it’s a depressant, so over time it made issues worse, not higher.”

Regardless of being other than her daughter after giving up custody to Klitschko, Panettiere informed Shetty, she shaped a powerful bond along with her little one.

“I’ll at all times need her right here. I at all times miss her,” she stated. “I at all times need to have my arms wrapped round her, however that’s simply not the best way life is correct at this second.”

She continued: “I’ve religion that she goes to come back to me and that we’re going to have an unbelievable relationship and bond and friendship that a number of mother and father don’t get to have with their youngsters.”

In 2018, the yr “Nashville” ended it six-season run, Panettiere offered her house within the namesake metropolis.

Actor Emme Ryland, who appeared with Panettiere in “Convey It On: All or Nothing,” reacted to information of her dying on Instagram, saying: “So very unhappy. Relaxation in peace candy soul.”

Panettiere was a spokesperson for oceanic conservation group the Whaleman Basis, appeared within the 2010 Oscar-winning documentary on dolphin slaughter, “The Cove,” and obtained the Genesis Wyler Award from the Humane Society, in line with the tv academy.

“She was an unbelievable mild and a drive of nature who introduced immeasurable love and pleasure to all who knew her— and to the hundreds of thousands who watched her onscreen,” her father stated.

Hayden Panettiere is not holding again. The actress opens up in her new memoir “This Is Me: A Reckoning” and claims a magnificence model as soon as ended their years-long partnership after she revealed her expertise with postpartum melancholy throughout a dwell TV interview again in 2015.