Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin has been an actor in Canada and New Zealand for over a decade. Paquin was born in Winnipeg was raised in Wellington and made her stage debut as Flora McGrath when she played her role as Flora in The Piano. She won an Academy Award at the age of 11 to be the Best Actress Supporting Actress. Anna Paquin in full Anna Helene Paquin (born July 24 1982 Winnipeg Manitoba Canada) Canadian-born New Zealand actress who as was a young girl won her an Academy Award for best supporting actress for her role as the spirited and curious daughter of the character, played by Holly Hunter in the atmospheric romantic drama The Piano (1993). Anna Paquin, Holly Hunter and The Piano Holly Hunter as The Piano Paquin lived in New Zealand with her family as a child. The actress was chosen to play Flora McGrath the daughter of the muffled Scottish pianist, who in the late 19th century relocates back to New Zealand for an arranged wedding when she answered an audition for open casting when she was just nine years old. She had little prior experience in acting. After moving into the United States, she became a teenager. Paquin made her debut in the midst of her childhood with a character in the Jane Eyre title character in the Franco Zeffirelli novel Jane Eyre followed by a major part in Fly Away Home. Paquin played Frankie Addams from a television film adaptation of Carson McCullers' book The Member of the Wedding (1997). Paquin was a part of the supporting cast in The Queen of Spain Steven Spielberg's Amistad (1997. She played teenagers on Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (2000) as well as A Walk on the Moon (2000). The actress played the role of a groupie Polexia Aphrodisa in Almost Famous (2000).