Fans of actress and singer Hayden Panettiere will be delighted to hear that she is making a comeback to the silver screen. She did make a cameo in the slasher film Scream earlier this year, albeit in an uncredited role as a party-goer. The 32-year-old has, however, been confirmed for a more solid gig in next year's release of Scream 6.

Panettiere first walked away from acting after 2016, when she featured in the courtroom drama film, Custody alongside Viola Davis. This departure was mostly inspired by personal problems in her life, including relationship issues and a post-partum depressive phase she went through after the birth of her daughter, Kaya Evdokia Klitschko.

Panettiere has been in an on-and-off relationship with real estate agent Brian Hickerson after her divorce from Ukrainian boxer-turned-politician, Wladimir Klitschko. Her involvement with Hickerson has been messy in its own right, with the aspiring actor said to have been physically abusive towards her on several occasions. These challenges have kept her in the limelight despite the fact that she took a break from acting in order to try and find some kind of privacy. This is how her plan has panned out so far.

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8 Who Is Hayden Panettiere?

Hayden Panettiere was born on August 21, 1989, in Palisades, New York. The acting genes were already strong in her family, as her mother, Lesley R. Vogel used to be a soap opera actress, known for roles in shows like ABC's Loving from the '80s and the movie Sister Sensei in 1994.

Her father is Alan Lee 'Skip' Panettiere, a former firefighter in the New York Fire Department. She has one younger brother, Jansen Panettiere, who is also an actor. Panettiere has been married once, and Kaya Klitschko is her only child to date.

7 Hayden Panettiere's Acting Resume

Hayden Panettiere has been acting since before she could make proper sense of the world around her. A month before her first birthday, she first appeared on screen in a TV commercial. She would kick off her acting career proper in 1994, when she started playing Sarah Roberts in One Life to Live.

She followed that with a stint on CBS' Guiding Light, between 1996 and 2000. The biggest roles of Panettiere's career were in the TV shows Heroes and Nashville. She has also featured in movies like Remember the Titans, Raising Helen and I Love You, Beth Cooper.

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6 Hayden Panettiere's Music Career And Time On 'Nashville'

As well as being an actress, Hayden Panettiere is a talented singer/song-writer. This side of her shone through when she starred as Juliette Barnes in the musical drama series Nashville on ABC, and later on CMT. Most of her released music is under the banner of the TV show.

In 2012 and 2013, she was nominated at the Golden Globes for Best Supporting Actress thanks to her work on Nashville. Panettiere is also a one-time Grammy Award-nominated artist, for her role in the 1998 animated comedy film, A Bug's Life.

5 Why Did Hayden Panettiere Quit Acting?

After her marriage to Wladimir Klitschko ended in 2018, Hayden Panettiere was at the height of her struggles with postpartum depression. As a consequence, the retired boxer took over custody of their daughter Kaya, and the actress only ever saw her on occasion.

As a result of this, she decided to take a break from acting and focus on getting better. Nashville and Custody are the only two fully-fledged roles Panettiere has performed in going back more than five years.

4 Did Hayden Panettiere Also Quit Singing?

Considering her music was mostly always tied to her persona as Juliette Barnes on Nashville, it is difficult to say whether singing is something that Hayden Panettiere also walked away from deliberately. Factually, however, she has not released a song since the show's final episode on CMT, dating back to July 2018.

Whether Panettiere has a desire to establish an independent singing career or not is something that only time will tell.

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3 What Else Does Hayden Panettiere Do?

Apart from singing and acting, Hayden Panettiere has also worked as a model. As she did with acting, modeling is a path that she took on from an early age, and pursued well into adulthood. She hasn't dabbled as much in the craft recently, however, instead choosing to prioritize her acting career.

In the years since she stepped away from acting, Panettiere has been focused on activism. Among the causes she has championed include awareness for issues such as postpartum depression and domestic abuse. In recent months, she has been outspoken regarding the war in Ukraine, where her ex-husband now lives - and has been in the frontlines for the last few months.

2 Hayden Panettiere To Feature In 'Scream 6'

Hayden Panettiere first featured in the Scream franchise back in 2011, when she portrayed the character Kirby Reed in the fourth movie of the series. Her character was presumed dead by the end of the film, but her reappearance in Scream 5 this year is proof that she is, after all, alive.

While the extent of her cameo in that movie was in a photograph, she will be back in live action next year, when the next Scream is released.

1 Will Hayden Panettiere Do More Acting Work After 'Scream 6'?

Apart from the confirmation that she will be back as Kirby Reed in Scream 6, there has been no announcement from Hayden Panettiere or her team regarding her future career as an actress. Her decision to stop acting was always assumed to be a temporary one, and this new role at least proves that to be the case.

Whether she will take on any more active work in the immediate aftermath of the Tyler Gillett film, however, remains to be seen.

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