Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin has been an actress in Canada and New Zealand for over a decade. Paquin, born in Winnipeg and was raised by Wellington Paquin's mother, made her acting debut as Flora McGrath. For this role, she won an Academy Award of Best Supporting Actress in the romantic comedy The Piano at the young age of 11. The actress is second youngest recipient in Oscar History. Anna Paquin spelled out Anna Helene Paquin was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada on July 24,1982. The Canadian born actress is also a actress from New Zealand. In 1993, she was awarded an Academy Award at age 11 to play the inquisitive, talking daughter of Holly Hunter who played the principal character. Anna Paquin and Holly Hunter in The Piano Anna Paquin and Holly Hunter in The Piano Paquin relocated with their families to New Zealand when she was an infant and lived there for the rest of her life. Following a prompt for auditions, she was able to audition at age nine years old, with no previous experience in acting when she was selected for the role of Flora McGrath part. Flora is the child of a Scottish pianist who was mute. The couple moved to New Zealand during the middle of the nineteenth century to arrange a marriage. In her teens, Paquin moved to America. Paquin made her debut when she was a kid, with the part as the Jane Eyre protagonist in Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre followed by she played a significant role of Fly Away Home. Paquin appeared as Frankie Addams, a character in Carson McCullers' novel The Member of the Wedding in 1997. In Steven Spielberg's Amistad in 1997 her character was the queen of Spain in a lesser part. She portrayed teenagers on Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (2000), A Walk on the Moon (2000). She also was the character of the teenage groupie Polexia Aphrodisa on Almost Famous (2000).