Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin is a Canadian and New Zealand actress. Paquin is a Canadian and actress from New Zealand. Born in Winnipeg however, she was raised in Wellington the city where she was born, she made her first acting appearance in The Piano. In this romantic drama film at the age of 11, 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 actress from New Zealand. In 1993, she received the Academy Award at age 11 for playing the inquisitive and chatty daughter that was Holly Hunter who played the principal role. Anna Paquin with Holly Hunter, The Piano Holly Hunter (left) and Anna Paquin. Paquin was born in Winnipeg, Canada. She moved to New Zealand as a young kid. When she answered an open audition call and was selected for the part, she was cast as Flora McGrath, the daughter of an mute Scottish piano player who moved to New Zealand in mid-19th-century to be married. The actress was just nine, and she had no previous experience as an actor. She moved into the United States as a teen. Paquin was Jane Eyre's main character when she was an teen in Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre (2000) as well as her main character of Jane Eyre in Fly Away Home (2000). Paquin was Frankie Addams in a 1997 film adaptation for television of Carson McCullers' novel The Member of the Wedding and had a minor role as Queen of Spain in Steven Spielberg's Amistad (1997). She portrayed teens on the screen in Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (1998), A Walk on the Moon (1998) as well as Almost Famous (2000). She also portrayed the groupie Polexia Aphrodisa.