Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin has been an actress in Canada as well as New Zealand for over a decade. Paquin is a native of Canada and New Zealand actress. Born in Winnipeg but brought up in Wellington, she made her first acting appearance as a character in The Piano. In this romantic drama, she was the age of 11, Paquin won her second Oscar for Best Actress. Anna Paquin is full Anna Helene Paquin born on the 24th July 1982 Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. Canadian actor and New Zealander, who, as a kid won her first Academy Award in 1993 for the top actor supporting. She played the feisty girl who played Holly Hunter's character in The Piano. 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. When she responded to a request for open auditions at the age of nine and having no acting experience before that when she was selected for the role of Flora McGrath part. Flora is the daughter of an Scottish pianist, who was deaf. The couple relocated to New Zealand during the middle of the nineteenth century in an effort to arrange a marriage. She moved from New Zealand to United States as a teen. Paquin was cast as the child title in Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre in the year 1996. Also, she was an important role on the screen in Fly Away Home, a film from the same year. Paquin appeared as Frankie Addams, a character from Carson McCullers' novel The Member of the Wedding in 1997. In Steven Spielberg's Amistad in 1997 in which she played the Spanish queen in a less prominent role. She played teenagers on Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (2000) and A Walk on the Moon (2000). She portrayed her character groupie Polexia Aphrodisa in Almost Famous (2000).