Early Life
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.
Although Panettiere attended South Orangetown Middle School in New York, she was homeschooled from grade nine to the completion of high school.
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