Even before Hayden Panattiere became indestructible cheerleader Claire Bennet, she was no stranger to fighting off ailments (or bad guys). Lizzie Spaulding, Panattiere's character on the popular soap opera Guiding Light, battled a dragon in a dream state while in the hospital, waking up to announce that she had been cured of leukemia. Another part of Lizzie's shocking back story? When she was 6, she shot and killed a man after seeing him threaten her mother with a gun.