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 brought up in Wellington She made her first acting appearance on screen in The Piano. In this romance film, at the age of 11 years old, Paquin won her second Oscar for Best Actress. Anna Paquin's full name is Anna Helene Paquin. Born on the 24th of July, 1982 on the 24th of July 1982 in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada, she was a Canadian native New Zealand actress. As an infant, she won the Academy Award for best support actress. Her role as the empathetic and curious young girl Holly Hunter played in The Piano (1993) was the reason she won the award. Anna Paquin and Holly Hunter in The Piano Anna Paquin and Holly Hunter in The Piano Paquin relocated with their families to New Zealand when she was an infant and lived there for the rest of her life. When she answered an open call for auditions and was selected for the part, she was cast in the role of Flora McGrath, the daughter of an mute Scottish piano player who moved from Scotland to New Zealand in mid-19th-century to marry. She was only nine, and she had no previous experience as an actor. She moved into the United States as a teen. Paquin was in a brief role in the film's title role when she was a child as part of Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre (1996) as well as an important role in the movie Fly Away Home (1996). Paquin played Frankie Addams as a child in the television film adaptation Carson McCullers novel The Member of the Wedding. Paquin was also in the role of Queen of Spain in Steven Spielberg's 1997 film Amistad. The actress played teenagers on the screen in Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (1998), A Walk on the Moon (1998) as well as Almost Famous (2000). She also portrayed the groupie Polexia Aphrodisa.