Actress Hayden Panettiere dies aged 36

Actress Hayden Panettiere, who starred in TV shows Heroes and Nashville, has died aged 36. Announcing her death in a statement reported by the BBC’s US partner CBS News, her father Skip Panettiere described her as 'an incredible light and a force of nature who brought immeasurable love and joy to all who knew her and to the millions who watched her onscreen'. She began her career as a child actor, appearing in the US soap opera One Life to Live when she was just four years old. Panettiere went on to play a cheerleader with superpowers in Heroes (2006–2020) and had other notable roles in films like Remember the Titans and Raising Helen. The details surrounding her death were not immediately available.