Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin is a Canadian and New Zealand actress. Paquin, who was raised in Wellington but born and raised in Winnipeg made her acting d but in The Piano. At age 11 she was one of the youngest Academy Award winner ever for Best Actress. Anna Paquin full name Anna Helene Paquin, born July 24 in 1982 Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. Canadian-born New Zealand actor who won the Academy Award as a youngster as Best Supporting Actress acting as the bright and interesting girl who played Holly Hunter's main role The Piano. The Piano. Anna Paquin with Holly Hunter, The Piano Holly Hunter (left) and Anna Paquin. Paquin was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada and moved into New Zealand as a young kid. The actress was chosen to play Flora McGrath the daughter of an muffled Scottish pianist who, in the mid-19th century moves to New Zealand for an arranged wedding when she answered an open audition call when she was just nine years old, and had no prior experience in acting. At the age of a teen her family left Canada to the United States. Paquin was in a brief role in the film's title role when she was a child in Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre (1996) and an important role in the movie Fly Away Home (1996). Paquin played a minor role in the television movie of 1997 adaptation of Carson McCullers' novel The Member of the Wedding. Also, she played Queen of Spain in Steven Spielberg's Amistad (2007). She played teenagers as part of Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (2000), A Walk on the Moon (2000) and played her polexia Aphrodisa girl as part of Almost Famous (2000).