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Danielle Panabaker
Born	Danielle Nicole Panabaker September 19, 1987 (1987-09-19) (age 21) Augusta, Georgia, United States
Years active	1999 — present
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Danielle Nicole Panabaker (born September 19, 1987) is an American actress. She is well-known for her roles in Shark, Mr. Brooks, and Sky High. She is known to younger audiences for her roles in the Disney Channel original movies Stuck in the Suburbs and Read It and Weep, the latter of which she starred alongside her sister Kay Panabaker.

Early life

Panabaker was born in Augusta,¹ Georgia to Donna and Harold Panabaker. Her younger sister Kay Panabaker is also an actress. Panabaker took a theater class at a summer camp and discovered her enjoyment in acting, so she started acting in community theaters at the age of 12, later auditioning for commercials. After moving to Naperville, Illinois, Panabaker went to Crone Middle School and later Neuqua Valley High School in Naperville and participated in the speech team. She graduated from high school as valedictorian when she was only 14 years old.² Later, feeling it was the only way to land acting roles regularly, Panabaker relocated to Los Angeles, California in order to pursue an acting career. In 2005, she earned her associate's degree and appeared on the National Dean's List. In the fall of 2006 she began her senior year at the University of California, Los Angeles, from which she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in June 2007.

Career

Panabaker followed her initial appearances in commercials with roles in television, including a part in the series, The Guardian (for which she won a Young Artist Award), as well as other television series including Malcolm in the Middle, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Summerland, and the Disney Channel Original Movie Stuck in the Suburbs. She has also appeared in the Lifetime Television productions Sex and the Single Mom and Mom at Sixteen, as well as the well-reviewed miniseries Empire Falls. In addition, Panabaker also appeared in stage productions with roles in musical theater, including West Side Story, Pippin, Once Upon A Time, and Beauty Lou and the Country Beast.

In 2005, Panabaker co-starred in two widely released theatrical films, Sky High and Yours, Mine and Ours. Her next role will be in the film Home of the Giants, opposite Ryan Merriman and Haley Joel Osment. She also has a supporting role in the film Mr. Brooks opposite Kevin Costner. In the Disney Channel original movie Read It and Weep, she plays "Is", an alternate version of Jamie, who is played by her sister Kay. Panabaker was added to the cast of the CBS television drama pilot Shark, as "Julie Stark", the main character's daughter. She now has a regular role in the series.³ Danielle has recently been cast as Jenna, a main character of the much anticipated Friday the 13th remake along with Jared Padalecki.⁴ Another film in the future for the young starlet is Renaissance Girl, in which she'll co-star with Jennifer Tilly.

Personal life

Danielle firstly dated Charlie Ebersol, son of NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol and co-producer of the awarded documentary film Ithuteng. They met each other during the recording of Yours, Mine and Ours, in which Charlie was one of the production assistants, as a Los Angeles Times profile of Charlie revealed: "An aspiring producer with one controversial HBO documentary to his credit, Charlie had intended to stay until he settled into life as a movie underling. 'I needed to not be thinking, and there is no better way not to think than to be a production assistant,' he says. On the set of "Yours, Mine and Ours," he met his girlfriend, 19-year-old actress Danielle Panabaker, who plays James Woods' daughter on 'Shark'".

But, in July of 2008, as some photos of her hanging out on a Los Angeles cafe with his Shark castmate James Woods leaked on the web ⁵, it was rumoured that the 61-year-old actor would have been dating Panabaker, though a possible Danielle and Charlie Ebersol breaking-up was not commented on the media. The rumours about a relationship with Woods did not last, but soon another Danielle's date was being commented. According to JustJared.com, she is currently dating singer/actor Jesse McCartney⁶ - himself a former castmate of Danielle's little sister Kay Panabaker, in the TV show Summerland.

Awards

• Won:

• Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Television Series, Guest Starring Actress (The Guardian, 2004)
• Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Television Movie, Miniseries or Special (Searching for David's Heart, 2005)

Filmography

Movies

Feature films, television films, and mini-series.

Television

References

External links

• Official site of Danielle Panabaker
• Danielle Panabaker at the Internet Movie Database
• Danielle Panabaker at TV.com