Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin has been an actress in Canada and New Zealand for over a decade. Paquin, born in Winnipeg and raised by Wellington Paquin's father, was first seen on stage in the role of Flora McGrath. For this part, she was awarded an Academy Award of Best Supporting Actress in the romantic drama The Piano at the young age of eleven. She is the second youngest winner in Oscar the history of Oscars. Anna Paquin spelled out Anna Helene Paquin was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada on the 24th July of 1982. Her birthplace is Canada. actress from New Zealand. In 1993 she won an Academy Award at age 11 for playing the inquisitive and chatty child of Holly Hunter who played the main role. Anna Paquin with Holly Hunter, The Piano Holly Hunter (left) and Anna Paquin. Paquin was born in Winnipeg, Canada. She moved to New Zealand as a young teenager. The character of Flora McGrath - the daughter to the Scottish muffled pianist from New Zealand at mid-19th Century was a part she won after she participated in an audition for the role. When she was nine years old, she had little or no experience acting. At the age of a teen, her family moved from Canada to the United States. Paquin played the lead role in Fly Away Home in 1996 and had a minor part in the film as Jane Eyre in the film when she was only a child. Paquin played Frankie Addams from a television film adaptation of Carson McCullers' novel The Member of the Wedding (1997). The actress had a supporting role as Princess of Spain Steven Spielberg's Amistad (1997. The actress played teens as teenagers in Hurlyburly (1998) She's All That (1999) and A Walk on the Moon (1999) and portrayed the character of a groupie Polexia Aphrodisa as a character in Almost Famous (2000).