Hayden Panettiere

All Is VANITIES ... Nothing Is Fair.

FEBRUARY

2007

AGE: 17. PROVENANCE: Rockland County, New York. CURRENTLY SERVING HUMANKIND AS... Claire, "the Cheerleader," on NBC's breakout hit Heroes. "(The show] just sort of plopped in my lap," Ponettiere says. "I was walking out of a general meeting with NBC, and they were like, `Oh, hey, by the way, read this'-this script with a cockroach running across the front of it. And I read it, and it was amazing." LOOK OUT. MANDY MOORE: Panettiere's debut album, for which she co-wrote most of the songs, comes out this spring. "My (day] job isto portray people who are not myself, and this is sort of getting to portray a little bit of me." WHAT HAPPENS TO COLLEGE PLANS WHEN YOU HAVE A HIT SERIES AT 17? "I've got 15 alumni from Duke University in my family. I absolutely want to go to college, but I don't know if it's going to work out with this series. (To her mom, Lesley] How long are we on contract? (Mom says, "I think it's six years."] Oh my God, I'll be 231"

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