Background
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.
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.
He is best known for his roles in films The Perfect Game, Ice Age: The Meltdown, Summer Forever and The Martial Arts Kid. Jansen is the younger brother of actress Hayden Panettiere. He played the voice of Truman X in The X"son
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.
lieutenant was released on Digital Video Disc 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.
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.