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 romantic drama, she was 11 years old, Paquin won her second Oscar for Best Actress. Anna Paquin full name Anna Helene Paquin, born July 24, 1982 Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. Canadian-born New Zealand actor who won the Academy Award as a youngster in the category of Best Supporting actress for playing the enthusiastic and curious daughter of Holly Hunter's main 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 as a child. The actress was chosen to play Flora McGrath the daughter of a muffled Scottish pianist who in the middle of 19th century, moves into New Zealand for an arranged wedding after she accepted an audition open to all when she was just nine years old, and had no previous acting experience. When she was a teenager she emigrated to the United States. Paquin had a small part in the film's title role when she was a child as part of Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre (1996) as well as a lead part in the film Fly Away Home (1996). Paquin played Frankie Addams in a 1997 television movie adaptation of the novel by Carson McCullers The Member of the Wedding as well as a small role as the queen of Spain in Steven Spielberg's Amistad (1997). The actress played teens in Hurlyburly (1998) She's All That (1999) as well as A Walk on the Moon (1999) and played the groupie Polexia Aphrodisa as a character in Almost Famous (2000).