Kay Panabaker

Infobox actor
name = Kay Panabaker

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birthname = Stephanie Kay Panabaker
birthdate = birth date and age|mf=yes|1990|5|2
location = city-state|Orange|Texas, USA
yearsactive = 2001 — present
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website = http://www.kaypanabaker.com/

Stephanie Kay Panabaker (born May 2, 1990) is an American film and television actress.

Biography

Personal life

Kay Panabaker was born in Orange, Texas to Donna and Harold Panabaker. She started acting at various community theatres in Chicago, Illinois; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Atlanta, Georgia. She has an older sister, Danielle Panabaker, who is also an actress. In Naperville, Illinois she went to Crone Middle School for sixth grade, moved out to Los Angeles, California when she was going into seventh grade.

While in between projects, Kay focuses on her academics. She graduated from high school as valedictorian when she was 13 years old and received her Associate's Degree at age 15. [cite web | last = Panabaker | first = Kay | title = Index page at her official website | url = http://www.kaypanabaker.com/index.htm | accessdate = 2007-09-21] Kay received two academic scholarships from the community college she attended and was on the Dean's list, graduating with honors. She was accepted to UCLA as a junior history major when she was 15 and completed her BA in History from UCLA before she turned 18. Kay was inspired by an elementary school teacher who made learning exciting, and she wants to do the same for others, hoping to teach 4th or 5th grade once she gets her teaching degree.cite web | last = Panabaker | first = Kay | title = Bio page at her official website | url = http://www.kaypanabaker.com/biography.htm | accessdate = 2007-09-21]

Career

Panabaker has guest-starred in several television dramas and soap operas. She portrayed "Alice Brand" in "7th Heaven"; "Melissa Rue" in "ER"; "Sara" in "Port Charles"; "Carrie Bauer" in "The Brothers García"; "Ellisha" in "Medium"; "Lindsey Willows" in '; to name a few. In film, she appeared in "Dead Heat" as "Sam LaRoche"; and did some voice work in the Disney/Pixar film, "Monsters, Inc.". Panabaker's breakout role came when she starred in The WB's "Summerland" as "Nikki Westerly", in the 2004-2005 season. She also appeared as "George" in the 2007 ' alongside Emma Roberts and Amy Bruckner.

Panabaker had a recurring role in "Phil of the Future" as strait-laced Debbie Berwick, a friend of, and foil to, Pim Diffy (played by Amy Bruckner). She starred in "Life Is Ruff" as "Emily Watson" alongside Kyle Massey and Mitchel Musso. In July of 2006 she starred in the Disney Channel Original Movie "Read It and Weep" (based on the book "How My Private Personal Journal Became a Bestseller"), in which her sister Danielle Panabaker also stars. In 2006 Panabaker was in the first ever "Disney Channel Games", on the "Red Team", with Zac Efron, Anneliese van der Pol, Moises Arias, Dylan Sprouse, and Shin Koyamada as part of the Disney Channel's "So Hot Summer!". Her last movie was the Lifetime Television movie "Custody" which aired in September 2007. She is also starring in "Happy Campers", an ABC Family pilot. Her other recent movies include "Moondance Alexander", "" with Dylan and Cole Sprouse.

Awards and honors

External links

* [http://www.kaypanabaker.com/ Official site of Kay Panabaker]
*imdb|0659048
*tvtome person|118694
* [http://thetvaddict.com/2007/09/08/thetvaddictcom-interview-kay-panabaker/ Interview] at thetvaddict.com
* [http://www.portraitmagazine.net/interviews/kaypanabaker.html Interview] at Portrait magazine