Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin, a Canadian-New Zealander actor. Paquin is a native of Canada and New Zealand-born actress. She was born in Winnipeg however, she was raised in Wellington, she had her first appearance as an actor on screen in The Piano. In this romantic drama film at 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 for Best Supporting Actress for playing the enthusiastic and curious child of Holly Hunter's leading role in The Piano. Anna Paquin in The Piano Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin in The Piano Paquin grew up in New Zealand after moving with her parents as a child. When she responded to a request for auditions, she was able to audition at age nine years old, with no acting experience before that when she was selected for the role of Flora McGrath role. Flora was the daughter of a Scottish musician who was blind. They relocated into New Zealand during the middle of the nineteenth century in an effort to arrange a marriage. The actress moved to the United States as a teen. Paquin was played as the title child in Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre in 1996. Also, she was an important part as a lead character in Fly Away Home, a film from the year. Paquin appeared as Frankie Addams, a character in Carson McCullers' novel The Member of the Wedding in 1997. In Steven Spielberg's Amistad in 1997 her character was the Spanish queen in a lesser part. She played teenage girls in of Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (2000), A Walk on the Moon (2000) and played in the role of character of the polexia Aphrodisa girl as part of Almost Famous (2000).