Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin has been an actress across Canada as well as New Zealand for over a decade. Born in Winnipeg and was raised in Wellington Paquin was able to make her acting debut in the role of Flora McGrath in the romantic drama film The Piano for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at age 11 making her the second-youngest winner in Oscar history. Anna Paquin full name Anna Helene Paquin born July 24 the 24th of July, 1982 in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. Canadian-born New Zealand actor who won the Academy Award as a youngster in the category of Best Supporting actress for portraying the bright and curious child of Holly Hunter's main character in The Piano. Anna Paquin (left) with Holly Hunter. Holly Hunter (right) in The Piano. Paquin moved to New Zealand from Canada as an infant and was raised there. She was cast as 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 for open casting when she was just nine years old and had almost no previous acting experience. When she was a teenager the family relocated from Canadian to United States. Paquin began her career when she was a kid, with the part as the Jane Eyre protagonist in Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre as well as she played a significant role on the film Fly Away Home. Paquin played Frankie Addams, a character from Carson McCullers' novel The Member of the Wedding in 1997. In Steven Spielberg's Amistad in 1997 her character was the Spanish queen in a lesser part. She played teenagers on Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (2000), A Walk on the Moon (2000). In addition, she was the character of the teenage groupie Polexia Aphrodisa on Almost Famous (2000).