Biography | Hayden Panettiere — Born in the Hamlet of Palisades on 21 August 1989

Hayden Lesley Panettiere was born on 21 August 1989 in Palisades, an unincorporated hamlet in the town of Orangetown, Rockland County, New York. The hamlet sits on the west bank of the Hudson River, roughly twenty-five miles north of Manhattan. Her mother was Lesley R. Vogel, a former soap-opera actress. Her father was Alan Lee “Skip” Panettiere, a captain in the New York City Fire Department. She was the first of the couple’s two children. The family later lived in the Snedens Landing section of Palisades, a historic riverside enclave long associated with artists and performers. Panettiere’s early years there included neighborhood play, local schools in the South Orangetown district, and the start of a performing career that began with commercials before her first birthday. The precise residential addresses from childhood remain private homes and are not pinned here. Photo: chaubaby, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2007)