Date of Birth

25 December 1994, Palisades, New York, USA

Height

5' 7" (1.7 m)

Trivia

• Younger brother of Hayden Panettiere, with whom he shares great affection and loyalty. They starred together in Tiger Cruise (2004).
• Parents are soap opera-actress Lesley Vogel; and Alan L. Skip Panettiere, a fire department lieutenant.
• His last name is pronounced "Pan-Uh-Tee-Air-Ee"; the Italian translation is "Baker". His parents are both of half Italian descent (his father's father and his mother's mother were both the children of Italian immigrants). Jansen's other roots include German and English.
• Like his actress-sister Hayden Panettiere, Jansen has a fondness for music and gymnastics as well as acting; he plays guitar, and can do a mean standing back-flip.
• Is a black belt in the Israeli martial art of krav-maga ("survival").

Quotes

• [on being looked out for by his famous sister, and on being a "second father"] I can just see us in our 90's...when an eighty-something pokes me with a stick, she comes over and smacks him with a cane. Then again, I look out for her as well; my classmates tell me all the time that she's hot. I just say one thing back: "Watch it"!