Anna Paquin
Anna Paquin, a Canadian-New Zealander actress. Paquin, who was raised in Wellington however was born and bred in Winnipeg began her acting career with The Piano. At age 11, she became an infant Academy Award winner ever for Best Actress. Anna Paquin's full name is Anna Helene Paquin. Born on July 24, 1982, on the 24th of July 1982 in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada, she was a Canadian born New Zealand actress. As as a young girl, she was awarded her the Academy Award for best support actress. Her performance as the talkative and inquisitive character Holly Hunter played in The Piano (1993) earned her the prize. Anna Paquin, Holly Hunter and The Piano Holly Hunter as The Piano Paquin lived in New Zealand with her family while she was a young girl. Following a prompt for auditions, she was able to audition at age nine years old, with no acting experience before that when she was selected for the role of Flora McGrath role. Flora was the daughter of a Scottish musician who was blind. The couple moved to New Zealand during the middle of the nineteenth century to arrange a marriage. As a teenager her family left Canada to the United States. Paquin played Jane Eyre's title character as an teen in Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre (2000) as well as the lead role of Jane Eyre in Fly Away Home (2000). Paquin played Frankie Addams as a child in the 1996 television version 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. She played teenagers on Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (2000), A Walk on the Moon (2000). Also, she played the role of a teen girl named Polexia Aphrodisa in Almost Famous (2000).






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