Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin has been an actress across 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 raised in Wellington the city where she was born, she was the first actress to appear as a character 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, Canada on the 24th of July, 1982. She is a Canadian-born New Zealander actress. In 1993 she won the Academy Award at age 11 to play the inquisitive, talking girl who is the daughter of Holly Hunter who played the leading character. Anna Paquin and Holly Hunter in The Piano Anna Paquin and Holly Hunter in The Piano Paquin The Piano Paquin. Her family moved to New Zealand when she was as a young child, and grew up there. The actress was chosen to play Flora McGrath the daughter of a blind Scottish pianist who in the mid-19th century moves into New Zealand for an arranged wedding after she accepted an open audition call; she was nine years old. She had little prior experience in acting. At the age of a teen, her family moved from Canada to the United States. Paquin played Jane Eyre's main character when she was a teenager in Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre (2000) as well as her main character for the character in Fly Away Home (2000). Paquin played Frankie Addams as a child in the television adaptation of Carson McCullers novel The Member of the Wedding. Paquin also had a role of the queen of Spain, in Steven Spielbergs 1997 movie Amistad. The actress played teenagers as teens in Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (1998), A Walk on the Moon (1998) and Almost Famous (2000). She also portrayed the groupie Polexia Aphrodisa.