Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin has been an actor in Canada and New Zealand for over a decade. Paquin, who was raised in Wellington however was born and bred in Winnipeg made her acting d but with The Piano. At age 11 she was an infant Academy Award winner ever 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 as Best Supporting Actress portraying the bright and curious girl who played Holly Hunter's lead role on the film The Piano. Anna Paquin with Holly Hunter, The Piano Holly Hunter (left) and Anna Paquin. Paquin was born in Winnipeg, Canada and moved to New Zealand as a young kid. She won the role of Flora McGrath the daughter of an muffled Scottish pianist who in the mid-19th century moves to New Zealand for an arranged wedding after she accepted an open audition call; she was nine years old. She had little previous experience as an actor. As a teenager, she moved to America. Paquin made her debut in the midst of her childhood with a role of the Jane Eyre title character in Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre, and then an important role on the film Fly Away Home. Paquin had a small role in the TV film of 1997 adaptation of Carson McCullers' novel The Member of the Wedding. The actress also played the Queen of Spain in Steven Spielberg's Amistad (2007). She played teenagers in Hurlyburly (1998) She's All That (1999) and A Walk on the Moon (1999) as well as the groupie Polexia Aphrodisa as a character in Almost Famous (2000).