Jansen Panettiere, Hayden Panettiere’s youthful brother who acquired his begin on the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon within the early 2000s, died on Sunday, February 19. He was 28 years previous.
The actor, who was discovered by a buddy “sitting upright in a chair unresponsive” at his dwelling in Nyack, New York, was pronounced useless on arrival by first responders after CPR was administered, in keeping with the police report obtained by Us Weekly on Tuesday, February 21.
Jansen, an artist who steadily displayed his daring and colourful work by way of Instagram, was purported to have a enterprise assembly earlier that day, the police report said. His buddy grew nervous after he didn’t present up and went to his home, calling 911 after discovering the Final Day of Summer season actor “unresponsive.”
Whereas a explanation for dying is pending, the doc said that there have been “no apparent indicators of trauma.”
Alan “Skip” Panettiere, Hayden and Jansen’s father, additionally arrived at his son’s dwelling, telling police that Jansen “sounded OK” when the 2 spoke on the telephone the night time earlier than.
Jansen started his profession as an actor within the early 2000s with such credit as a one-off episode of Even Stevens in 2002, adopted by a job in Hayden’s Disney Channel Unique Film Tiger Cruise two years later. That very same yr, the Fog actor additionally lent his voice to the hit Nickelodeon kids’s present Blue’s Clues for 4 episodes.
Jansen went on to broaden his voice abilities within the 2006 Ice Age sequel, Ice Age: The Meltdown, as Shovelmouth Boy. One yr later, he landed the most important position of his profession in Nickelodeon’s TV film The Final Summer season.
Because the New York native continued to behave all through the years, together with in an episode of The Strolling Useless in 2019 and two consecutive movies in 2021 and 2022, he additionally grew to become devoted to his profession as an artist, steadily sharing pictures of his work on his Instagram account.
Jansen’s artwork centered on brilliant, vivid colours and summary designs. He labored with spray paint and graffiti and was significantly pleased with two items of labor previous to his dying.
“I like this one. #rane,” he wrote on Friday, February 17, alongside a vibrant portray of varied geometric shapes and features.
He additionally uploaded a photograph of a lady named Catherine, who seemed to be his girlfriend, subsequent to his portray of a lady’s face. “💙#rane,” he captioned the picture. One month prior, Jansen shared a candy snapshot of the 2 of them kissing within a photograph sales space.
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