Established voiceover actor Janssen Panettiere, who played a role in ‘Ice Age: The Meltdown’ and was the brother of actress Hayden Panettiere, has died, according to Hayden Panettiere’s agent, Casey Kitchen. He was reportedly 28 years old.
According to Kitchen, his cause of death is currently unknown and an investigation is ongoing.
CNN has reached out to a representative for Janssen Panettiere for comment.
Jansen Panettiere started his career as a child actor in the early 2000s alongside his sister who is best known for his roles on NBC’s ‘Heroes’ and ABC’s ‘Nashville’.
His early credits included an episode of ‘Even Stevens’ and another small role in the sitcom ‘Hope & Faith’.
As his career progressed, Janssen Panettiere began working as a voice-over actor. He has appeared in various TV shows and movies, including his four episodes as Periwinkle in 2004’s ‘Blue’s Clues’ and his character Shovel Mouse His Boy in the 2006 animated film ‘Ice Age: The Meltdown’. played a role.
In 2005 and 2006, Janssen Panettiere was a series regular on Nickelodeon’s animated television show, The X’s, about a family of agents who stop evil. He continued to appear in various titles throughout the 2010s, including ‘The Walking Dead,’ ‘Major Crime,’ and ‘How High 2.’
The actor’s most recent professional credit to appear on IMDb was for his 2022 role as Robin in the romantic film Love and Love Not.
Janssen Panettiere is also an aspiring artist and graduated from Drury University with a BA in Economics in 2016, according to his LinkedIn.
According to his website biography, he turned to art as a means to deal with anxiety and depression.
“I paint my problem,” he wrote on Medium in 2019.
