Hayden Panettiere turns 24 today. The actress, singer and model has racked up a long and impressive resume through the years, beginning with commercial appearances when she was just 11 months old. Her first television gig was the role of Sarah Roberts on ABC's soap opera One Life to Live starting in 1994. While her first full-length film was A Bug's Life, Panettiere's first live-action full-length film was Remember the Titans.

Panettiere is best-known for her role as Claire Bennet on NBC's Heroes, which won her several awards and introduced her to the science fiction convention circuit.

Panettiere rekindled her relationship with her ex, heavyweight boxing world-champion Wladimir Klitschko in April 2013 after her relationship with NFL player Scotty McKnight failed.

In honor of Panettiere's birthday, here is a list of her top ten movies.

10) The Architect (2006)
An architect faces several problems with enraged residents of failed and dangerous buildings that he designed. Things are not looking up for Leo Waters as his career and family life start to fall apart. Panettiere plays the architect's daughter Christina, a teenager who tries to escape her father's control and inappropriate behavior. She then begins to engage in some risky behavior.

9) Dinosaur (2000)
A dinosaur separated from his nest and raised by lemurs must travel to safety with his adoptive family after a meteorite shower destroys their home. The skillful merging of live-action backgrounds with computer-animated dinosaurs creates amazingly-real looking dinosaurs. Originally, the film was planned to be a silent film without any dialogue in an effort to distinguish it from The Land Before Time, but in order to make the film more kid-friendly, that idea was abandoned. In this film that Disney describes as a “story of courage, loyalty and hope,” Panettiere voices the role of Suri, Iguanodon Aladar's adoptive sister.

8)Racing Stripes (2005)
When an abandoned zebra is found and raised on a farm, he grows up believing he is a racehorse and dreams of one day racing with thoroughbreds. Panettiere plays Channing Walsh, Nolan Walsh's daughter who is a natural rider who takes after her deceased mother. Although her father wishes to keep her from the racing world after her mother's world, she attempts to help Stripes achieve his dream.

7) Tiger Cruise (2004)
This Disney Channel Original Movie focuses on a week-long cruise for military families and friends on an aircraft carrier. Although Tiger Cruise is a fictional story, its plot is based on the events of 9/11 and what occurred aboard the USS Constellation. Panettiere stars with her real-life brother Jansen Panettiere, which fits in this touching story of family loyalty, courage and support. Panettiere portrays Maddie, who sees the world completely differently after her experience aboard the USS Constellation. She is forced to comfort the younger children on the naval carrier and must also accept her status as a military brat in order to support her father's work.

6) Ice Princess (2005)
Brilliant and nerdy Casey Carlyle pushes her academic studies aside in order to pursue a dream of becoming a professional figure skater. Panettiere plays the role of Gennifer Harwood, a figure skater who wants the opposite of Casey – while her former skater mother pushes her into a strict skating program and diet, all she wants is a normal teenage life, with boys and friends and eating whatever she wants. When her mother sabotages Casey's performance, Gen quits skating and helps Casey see that quitting is not an option. Panettiere performed most of her own skating during the film, including a difficult and fast spin scene.

5) A Bug's Life (1998)
In this Disney-animated film, Flik is an ant who doesn't fit in. In order to save his colony from grasshoppers, he enlists the help of circus bugs to help. Panettiere voices the part of little Princess Dot, a cute little ant who is one of Flik's only fans. Since she is the one who convinces Flik to return to the colony and save them all with the bird idea, she is ultimately the one who saves the day.

4) Bring It On: All or Nothing (2006)
The third installment in the Bring it On series doesn't share any plot elements or characters with the previous films, but still follows the squads of high school cheerleaders. A transfer student attempts to join the cheer-leading squad at her new school but doesn't fit in with the squad. She faces further chances when she must compete against her former squad. Panettiere
makes the transition from perfect Britney Allen who is cheer-leading captain and soon-to-be prom queen to a member of a completely different squad at a rough high school. And she does it extremely well.

3) Raising Helen (2004)
When her sister and brother-in-law tragically die in a car accident, Helen Harris is forced to give up her fabulous old life when she is appointed the guardian of their three young children. Panettiere stars alongside Kate Hudson, John Corbett, Joan Cusack and Abigail and Spencer Breslin. She plays 15-year-old Audrey Davis, a troublesome teen mixed up with fake ids, drinking and smoking, but still a great sister to her 10-year-old brother and five-year-old sister. She successfully plays the role of a strong older sibling dealing with a difficult situation no one should ever have to face.

2) The Forger (2012)
Joshua Mason is a 15-year-old who is abandoned by his mother and gets caught up in art forgery while he searches for a sense of belonging.
Panettiere plays the role of Joshua's love interest Amber. She teaches him so much, from how to kiss, to how to hold back a punch and even how to let go of his past.

1) Remember the Titans (2000)
Based on the true story of coach Herman Boone, the story of a racially-divided team who must work together as a team to beat both their opponents and the town's racial persecution. Panettiere plays enthusiastic Sheryl Yoast, assistant coach Bill Yoast's daughter. She plays the part of a tom girl who would rather help her dad's football team then “accessorize” with dolls extremely convincingly, even at age 10. While in the film adaptation Sheryl is Yoast's only daughter, in real life, he had four daughters that all lived with their mother, Betty Yoast, after their parents divorced. His daughter Sheryl was, however a huge football fan and even assisted her father during his coaching career.

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