Hayden Panettiere
Hayden Panettiere : Role: Claire Bennet
Birthday : 21st August 1989
Birthplace : Palisades, New York, NY, USA
Recent Role : Claire Bennet on Heroes
Birth Name : Hayden Leslie Panettiere
Height : 5′ 1″ (1.55 m)
Gender : Female
Claire Bennet is a character from the American TV series Heroes played by Hayden Panettiere. She is a high school student and cheerleader and an advanced human with the power to survive and heal herself from any injury, being able to re-grow limbs and tissue. She is the adoptive daughter of Noah Bennet and Sandra Bennet and the adoptive sister of Lyle Bennet. Her biological parents are Nathan Petrelli and Meredith Gordon, making her the niece of Peter and Flint, and the granddaughter of Angela and Arthur Petrelli.
Claire attended Union Wells High School in Odessa, Texas. She was a popular and typical High-School cheerleader. She is adopted, although now knows who her birth parents are. Her wanting to know who her real parents are was one of the first volume’s mysteries. Her adoptive father, Noah Bennet is a loving father, though he has a dark, mysterious occupation. Her adoptive mother, Sandra Bennet, also cares a lot about her. However, she eventually cannot remember who Claire is because of memory losses from Mr. Bennet’s associate. Claire eventually learns who her birth parents are: Nathan Petrelli being her real father and Meredith Gordon being her real mother, with the powers of flight and pyrokinesis respectively. Her advanced human power is to regenerate at a super-human rate. She can re-grow limbs and tissue lost, but for example, if lodged with a piece of glass then she will not heal until the piece of glass is removed, however when shot there is the possibility for the bullet to be removed upon Regeneration.