Hayden Panettiere No.2 video slide show. Panettiere was born in and partly raised in Palisades, New York, the daughter of Lesley R. Vogel, a former soap opera actress, and Alan Lee "Skip" Panettiere, a fire department lieutenant. She has one younger brother, fellow actor Jansen Panettiere.Panettiere has Italian ancestry, and her surname means "baker" in Italian. Her mother's family is from Indiana.[