Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin has been an actress across Canada as well as 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 as a character in The Piano. In this romantic drama film at eleven years of age, Paquin won her second Oscar for Best Actress. Anna Paquin full name Anna Helene Paquin was born on July 24, 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 part The Piano. The Piano. Anna Paquin, Holly Hunter and The Piano Holly Hunter as The Piano Paquin lived in New Zealand with her family when she was young. She won the role of Flora McGrath the daughter of an mute Scottish pianist who in the mid-19th century moves into New Zealand for an arranged marriage when she responded to an audition for open casting when she was just nine years old and had almost no previous experience as an actor. In her teens her family relocated into 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 just a young child. Paquin was the character Frankie Addams as a child in the television version of Carson McCullers novel The Member of the Wedding. Paquin was also in the role of the queen of Spain in Steven Spielberg's 1997 movie Amistad. She played teenagers on Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (2000) as well as A Walk on the Moon (2000). She played her character groupie Polexia Aphrodisa in Almost Famous (2000).