Jansen Panettiere was born on September 25, 1994, in Palisades, New York, to Lesley R. Vogel, a former soap opera actress, and Alan Lee “Skip” Panettiere, a fire department lieutenant. He was 5 years younger than Hayden.
He was an actor who made his debut in the early 2000s, working on projects like Even Stevens, Blue’s Clues, Robots, and Ice Age: The Meltdown. He also had a recurring role as Truman X in Nickelodeon’s The X’s. He worked with his sister in 2004’s Tiger Cruise. They also worked together in Racing Stripes, in 2005, with Hayden playing Channing Walsh while her sibling voiced the younger version of zebra Stripes.
He has also starred in a number of Disney Channel original movies and made-for-TV Nickelodeon films. He was nominated for a Young Artist Award back in 2008 for his work on The Last Day of Summer.