Actress Hayden Panettiere of “Heroes” and “Nashville” Passes Away at Age 36

Actress Hayden Panettiere

American actress Hayden Panettiere, who starred in the television series “Heroes” as a cheerleader with superpowers and “Nashville” as a country music artist, passed away on Sunday at the age of 36, according to a statement released by her publicist.

According to a statement from the city’s police department, the two-time Golden Globe nominee was discovered unconscious at an apartment complex in Greenville, South Carolina, and was declared dead at the scene. The police claimed that although her death was being looked into, there were no indications of foul play.

An snippet of a 911 conversation shows paramedics attempting to revive an unconscious woman while verifying to a dispatcher that they were responding to a “overdose” at the address.

Her memoir, “This Is Me: A Reckoning,” which detailed the difficulties of childhood celebrity, the trauma surrounding the challenging 2014 birth of her daughter, and her following struggles with postpartum depression and alcoholism, was released in May. Her death occurred just a few months later.

Her father, Alan “Skip” Panettiere, stated in a statement, “She was an amazing light and a force of nature who brought immeasurable love and joy to everyone who knew her – and to the millions who watched her onscreen.”

Panettiere, a former child actress, rose to fame as the voice of Dot, the little princess ant from Pixar’s 1998 animated feature “A Bug’s Life.” She was nominated for a Grammy for Best Spoken Word soundtrack for Children for her work on the movie’s read-along soundtrack.