Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin has been an actor in Canada and New Zealand for over a decade. Paquin is a Canadian as well as a New Zealand actress. She was born in Winnipeg but raised in Wellington She was the first actress to appear on screen in The Piano. In this romantic drama, she was the age of 11, Paquin won her second Oscar for Best Actress. Anna Paquin full name Anna Helene Paquin born July 24 in 1982 in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. Canadian-born New Zealand actor who won the Academy Award as a youngster in the category of Best Supporting actress for acting as the bright and interesting child of Holly Hunter's main role The Piano. The Piano. Anna Paquin with Holly Hunter, The Piano Holly Hunter (left) and Anna Paquin. Paquin was born in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada and moved into New Zealand as a young kid. Following a prompt for auditions, she was able to audition when she was nine years old, with no acting experience before that the actress was chosen for Flora McGrath's part. Flora is the child of a Scottish musician who was blind. The couple were relocated to New Zealand during the middle of the nineteenth century to arrange a marriage. As a teenager her family relocated to the United States. Paquin played the lead role in Fly Away Home in 1996 and had a minor part as Jane Eyre when she was only a child. Paquin was the character Frankie Addams as a child in the television adaptation of Carson McCullers novel The Member of the Wedding. Paquin also had a role of the queen of Spain, in Steven Spielbergs 1997 film Amistad. She played teenagers on Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (2000) as well as A Walk on the Moon (2000). She portrayed the role of a groupie Polexia Aphrodisa in Almost Famous (2000).