Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin, a Canadian-New Zealander actor. Paquin was born in Winnipeg and raised by Wellington Paquin's father, was first seen on stage in the role of Flora McGrath. For this role she received the Academy Award of Best Supporting Actress in the romantic comedy The Piano at the young age of 11. She is the second-youngest winner in Oscar History. Anna Paquin spelled out Anna Helene Paquin was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada on July 24,1982. She is a Canadian-born New Zealander actress. In 1993 she won an Academy Award at age 11 to play the inquisitive, talkative girl who is the daughter of Holly Hunter who played the leading character. Anna Paquin with Holly Hunter, The Piano Holly Hunter (left) and Anna Paquin. Paquin was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada. She moved from the city to New Zealand as a young kid. The actress was chosen to play Flora McGrath the daughter of an muffled Scottish pianist, who in the late 19th century relocates to New Zealand for an arranged marriage when she responded to an audition open to all at the age of nine. She was old and had almost no previous experience as an actor. In her teens her family relocated from New Zealand to United States. Paquin had a small part in the film's title role when she was still a kid in Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre (1996) as well as a lead part in the film Fly Away Home (1996). Paquin was in the role of Frankie Addams, a character in 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 less prominent part. She played teenage girls in of Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (2000), A Walk on the Moon (2000) and played in the role of character of the polexia Aphrodisa groupie in Almost Famous (2000).