Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin has been an actress in Canada and New Zealand for over a decade. Paquin is a Canadian as well as a New Zealand-born actress. She was born in Winnipeg but brought up in Wellington, she was the first actress to appear 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 in the category of Best Supporting actress for playing the enthusiastic and curious girl who played Holly Hunter's main role in The Piano. Anna Paquin (left) with Holly Hunter. Holly Hunter (right) in The Piano. Paquin moved to New Zealand from Canada as a little girl and grew in the country. In response to an audition call and was selected for the part, she was cast in the role of Flora McGrath, the daughter of an mute Scottish piano player who moves to New Zealand in mid-19th-century to get married. She was only nine years old and did not have any prior experience in acting. In her teens she emigrated into the United States. Paquin played the lead role in the film Fly Away Home in 1996 and had a minor part in the film as Jane Eyre when she was only a child. Paquin was Frankie Addams from a television film version of Carson McCullers' novel The Member of the Wedding (1997). She played a minor role in Princess of Spain Steven Spielberg's Amistad (1997. She portrayed teenagers in Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (2000) as well as A Walk on the Moon (2000). She portrayed her character groupie Polexia Aphrodisa in Almost Famous (2000).