Jansen Panettiere ✝

Jansen Panettiere (September 25, 1994 – February 19, 2023) was an American actor. He was known for his roles in films The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry, The Perfect Game, Ice Age: The Meltdown, The Martial Arts Kid, and How High 2. His elder sister is actress Hayden Panettiere. Panettiere was born in Palisades, New York, to Lesley R. Vogel, a former soap opera actress, and Alan Lee "Skip" Panettiere, a fire department lieutenant. Jansen had a supporting role in the Disney Channel Original Movie Tiger Cruise, which starred his sister Hayden (this is one of only two productions in which both siblings featured onscreen, the other being The Forger – Jansen lent his voice to Racing Stripes, in which Hayden appeared). He portrayed the voice of Truman X in The X's. He starred as Lucas Malloy in the made-for-television Nickelodeon film The Last Day of Summer, which first showed July 20, 2007. It was released on DVD on August 28, 2007.