Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin has been an actor in Canada and New Zealand for over a decade. Paquin is a Canadian as well as a New Zealand-born actress. She was born in Winnipeg but brought up in Wellington, she made her first acting appearance on screen in The Piano. In this romantic drama, she was eleven years of age, Paquin won her second Oscar for Best Actress. Anna Paquin's full name is Anna Helene Paquin. Born on the 24th of July, 1982 in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada, she was the first Canadian birthed New Zealand actress. As an infant, she won an Academy Award for best support actress. The role she played as the empathetic and curious character Holly Hunter played in The Piano (1993) earned her the prize. Anna Paquin in The Piano Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin in The Piano Paquin grew up in New Zealand after moving with her parents when she was a young child. The actress was chosen to play Flora McGrath the daughter of an mute Scottish pianist, who in the mid-19th century moves back to New Zealand for an arranged wedding when she answered an audition open to all at the age of nine. She was old. She had little previous acting experience. Following her move into the United States, she became an adolescent. Paquin was chosen to play the role of the child in Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre in 1996. Also, she was an important role in Fly Away Home, a film that was released in that same year. Paquin was the character Frankie Addams as a child in the television adaptation of Carson McCullers novel The Member of the Wedding. Paquin also had a role of Queen of Spain, in Steven Spielbergs 1997 feature film Amistad. The actress played teenagers on the screen in Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (1998), A Walk on the Moon (1998) as well as Almost Famous (2000). Also, she played the character of Polexia Aphrodisa.