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  • Hayden Panettiere

    Hayden Panettiere Attends the 2012 American Music Awards

    Looking for the latest news, gossip, and scoop on Hayden Panettiere? We've got everything you need (including a short biography!) right here.

    Hayden Panettiere was born on August 21, 1989 in Palisades, New York, and started acting at the tender age of 11 months, when she starred in her very first commercial for Playskool! This gal's mom, Lesley R. Vogel, is a former soap actress, so it's no...

  • Jonathan Jackson

    Jonathan Jackson Plays Avery Barkley on Nashville

    Nashville character: Avery Barkley
    Full name: Jonathan Stevens Jackson
    Birthday: May 11, 1982
    Hometown: Orlando, Florida
    Twitter: @JonathanJackson
    Best known for: His long-running role as Lucky Spencer on ABC soap General Hospital (or Camp Nowhere to children of the ‘90s).
    Did you know? Newsweek magazine declared Jonathan a “sureshot” for the role of Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode II but the...

  • Charles Esten

    Charles Esten Plays Deacon Claybourne on Nashville

    Nashville character: Deacon Claybourne
    Full name: Charles Esten Puskar III
    Birthday: September 9, 1965
    Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA
    Twitter: @TheCharlesEsten
    Best known for: Improvising songs on Whose Line Is It Anyway, playing army boyfriend Luke in the final season of Party of Five, and prosecutor Ray Henry in the fourth season of Big Love.
    Did you know? Motorcyclists everywhere will recognize Charles...

  • Robert Wisdom

    Robert Wisdom Plays Coleman Carlisle on Nashville

    Nashville character: Coleman Carlisle

    Full name: Robert Wisdom

    Birthday: September 14, 1953

    Hometown: Born in Jamaica, raised in Washington, D.C.

    Best known for: If you’re a fan of quality TV, you may remember Robert Wisdom as Howard "Bunny" Colvin on The Wire, Lechero on Prison Break, Supernatural’s Angel Uriel, or Vaughn Anderson on Burn Notice.

    Did you know? There just might be something in a...

  • Powers Boothe

    Powers Boothe Plays Lamar Wyatt on Nashville

    Nashville character: Lamar Wyatt

    Full name: Powers Allen Boothe

    Birthday: June 1, 1948

    Hometown: Snyder, Texas

    Best known for: Powers Boothe’s standout roles are almost too many to list: Judge Valentine “Wall” Hatfield in Hatfields & McCoys, Cy Tolliver on Deadwood, 24’s President Noah Daniels, Curly Bill Brocius in Tombstone. We could go on.

    Did you know? Though it sounds like a stage name, the...

  • Eric Close

    Eric Close Plays Teddy Conrad on Nashville

    Nashville character: Teddy Conrad
    Full name: Eric Randolph Close
    Birthday: May 24, 1967
    Hometown: San Diego, California
    Twitter: @EricRClose
    Best known for: Playing FBI agent Martin Fitzgerald on CBS’s Without a Trace.
    Did you know? Eric’s very first onscreen acting credit was the role of a guard in an episode of MacGyver.

    Before joining the cast of Nashville, Eric played FBI agent Martin Fitzgerald...

  • Connie Britton

    Connie Britton

    Crazy about Nashville's Connie Britton? We've got the for the latest Connie news, bio information, gossip and pics right here!

    Connie Britton plays country superstar Rayna Jaymes in ABC's Nashville, and we can't get enough of her amazing voice (not to mention her ridiculously gorgeous hair). Connie was born on March 6th, 1967, in Boston Massachusetts, and after getting an undergraduate degree in...

  • Sam Palladio

    Sam Palladio Plays Gunnar Scott  on Nashville

    Nashville character: Gunnar Scott
    Full name: Sam Palladio
    Birthday: November 21
    Hometown: Cornwall, England
    Twitter: @SamPalladio
    Best known for: Stoke in Showtime’s Episodes
    Did you know? The singer/songwriter thing isn’t just an act! Sam writes and records his own music under the moniker Salt Water Thief.

    A fresh face to American viewers, Sam is already making impressive moves in the Hollywood...

  • Clare Bowen

    Clare Bowen Plays Scarlett O’Connor on Nashville

    Nashville character: Scarlett O’Connor

    Full name: Clare Maree Bowen

    Birthday: May 12, 1989

    Hometown: New South Wales, Australia

    Twitter: clarembee

    Best known for: This side of the Pacific Ocean? Not much. But like many other Australian actors, Clare appeared in the soap opera Home and Away.

    Did you know? An animal lover, Clare used to bring home stray and injured wildlife, much to her parents’...