Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin, a Canadian-New Zealander actress. Paquin is a Canadian as well as a actress from New Zealand. She was born in Winnipeg but raised in Wellington the city where she was born, she was the first actress to appear on screen in The Piano. In this romantic drama film at the age of 11, Paquin won her second Oscar for Best Actress. Anna Paquin full name Anna Helene Paquin was born on July 24, 1982 Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. Canadian-born New Zealand actor who won the Academy Award as a youngster in the category of Best Supporting actress for playing the enthusiastic and curious daughter of Holly Hunter's lead role in The Piano. Anna Paquin with Holly Hunter, The Piano Holly Hunter (left) and Anna Paquin. Paquin was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada, and immigrated to New Zealand as a young kid. When she responded to a request to auditions open when she was nine and having no prior experience acting, she won Flora McGrath's role. Flora is the child of an Scottish musician who was blind. The couple relocated to New Zealand during the middle of the nineteenth century to arrange a marriage. In her teens her family relocated from New Zealand to United States. Paquin had the role of lead in the film Fly Away Home in 1996 and had a minor part in the film as Jane Eyre as only a child. Paquin played Frankie Addams from a television film adaptation of Carson McCullers's book The Member of the Wedding (1997). She played a minor role in Princess of Spain Steven Spielberg's Amistad (1997. She played teens in Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (1998), A Walk on the Moon (1998) as well as Almost Famous (2000). She also portrayed the groupie Polexia Aphrodisa.