She won a 1994 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress for her work on Guiding Light.
[2] Hayden was ill from the ages of twelve to sixteen with an undetected ovarian cyst that left her paraplegic for a month.
[4] In addition to film and TV work, she was a member of the California-based song and dance troupe The Young Americans.
[4] Hayden joined the cast of the CBS soap opera Guiding Light as troubled teen Bridget Reardon.
She was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in 1993 and won in the same category in 1994.