Occupation Actor Siblings Hayden Panettiere Years active 2002–present Nieces Kaya Evdokia Klitschko | Name Jansen Panettiere Role Film actor | |
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Parents Lesley Vogel, Skip Panettiere Movies The Perfect Game, The Lost Medallion: The Adve, The Secrets of Jonathan, Racing Stripes, Tiger Cruise Similar People Hayden Panettiere, Lesley Vogel, Wladimir Klitschko, Ryan Ochoa, Moises Arias | ||
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Jansen Rayne Panettiere (born September 25, 1994) is an American television, film and voice actor. He is best known for his roles in films The Perfect Game, Ice Age: The Meltdown and The Martial Arts Kid. Jansen is the younger brother of actress Hayden Panettiere.
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- Early life
- Career
- Awards and nominations
- Filmography
- References
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Early life
Panettiere was born in Palisades, Rockland County, New York, to Lesley R. Vogel, a former soap opera actress, and Alan Lee "Skip" Panettiere, a fire department lieutenant.
Career
Jansen had a supporting role in the Disney Channel Original Movie Tiger Cruise, which starred his sister Hayden (this is one of only two productions to date in which both siblings have featured onscreen, the other being The Forger - Jansen lent his voice to Racing Stripes, in which Hayden appeared). He played the voice of Truman X in The X's. He starred as Lucas Malloy in the made-for-television Nickelodeon film The Last Day of Summer, which first showed July 20, 2007 on Nickelodeon. It was released on DVD on August 28, 2007.
His next film, The Perfect Game, was going to be released in theaters on August 8, 2008, but Lionsgate Films decided to push it back to the spring of 2009. The Perfect Game is directed by William Dear, is based on the true story of how a group of boys from Monterrey, Mexico become the first non-U.S. team to win the Little League World Series. Panettiere also co-stars with Gavin MacLeod in The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry, a film directed by Rich Christiano about faith and friendship. He appeared with Martin Sheen, Jamie Lee Curtis and Christine Lahti, as Elliott Perry in Dustin Lance Black's play 8, a reenactment of the Perry v. Schwarzenegger trial, at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre on March 3, 2012. The performance was broadcast on YouTube to raise money for the American Foundation for Equal Rights.
Awards and nominations
In 2008, Panettiere was nominated for a Young Artist Award at the Young Artist Awards for Best Performance in a TV Movie, Miniseries or Special by a Leading Young Actor for The Last Day of Summer.