Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin has been an actor in Canada and New Zealand for over a decade. Born in Winnipeg and raised in Wellington Paquin was able to make her acting debut portraying Flora McGrath in the romantic drama film The Piano for which she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress aged 11 years old, and was the 2nd youngest recipient in Oscar history. Anna Paquin is full Anna Helene Paquin born on the 24th of July, 1982 in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. Canadian actress, and New Zealander who, as a kid won an Academy Award in 1993 for the top support actress. She played the feisty daughter of Holly Hunter's portrayer in The Piano. Anna Paquin in The Piano Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin in The Piano Paquin grew up in New Zealand after moving with her parents while she was young. She won the role of Flora McGrath the daughter of a muffled Scottish pianist who in the middle of 19th century, moves to New Zealand for an arranged marriage when she responded to an audition for open casting when she was just nine years old. She had little previous acting experience. Following her move to New Zealand, in the United States, she became an adult. Paquin played Jane Eyre's protagonist as an teen in Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre (2000) and the lead role in Fly Away Home (2000). Paquin was Frankie Addams from a television film version of Carson McCullers' novel The Member of the Wedding (1997). The actress was a part of the supporting cast in the Queen of Spain Steven Spielberg's Amistad (1997. She played teenagers on the screen 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).