Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin has been an actor in Canada as well as New Zealand for over a decade. Paquin is a Canadian as well as a New Zealand-born actress. Born in Winnipeg but brought up in Wellington She was the first actress to appear 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 spelled out Anna Helene Paquin was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada on the 24th of July, 1982. She is a Canadian-born New Zealander actress. In 1993, she received her first Academy Award at age 11 for playing the inquisitive and chatty child that was Holly Hunter who played the leading character. 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 child. She was cast as Flora McGrath the daughter of the muffled Scottish pianist, who in the middle of 19th century, moves to New Zealand for an arranged wedding when she answered an open audition call; she was nine years old. She had little previous acting experience. As a teenager, she relocated to America. Paquin was chosen to play the role of the child in Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre in 1996. She also played an important role in Fly Away Home, a film from the same year. Paquin had a small role in the 1997 TV movie adaption of Carson McCullers' novel The Member of the Wedding. The actress also played the Queen of Spain in Steven Spielberg's Amistad (2007). The actress played teens as teenagers in Hurlyburly (1998) She's All That (1999) as well as A Walk on the Moon (1999) and portrayed the groupie Polexia Aphrodisa in Almost Famous (2000).