Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin, a Canadian-New Zealander actor. Paquin is a native of New Zealand, born in Wellington but born and raised in Winnipeg began her acting career with The Piano. At age 11 years old, she became an infant Academy Award winner ever for Best Actress. Anna Paquin in full Anna Helene Paquin (born July 24 1982 Winnipeg Manitoba Canada) Canadian-born New Zealand actress who as a child won the Academy Award for best supporting actress in her performance as the loquacious and inquisitive daughter of the character played by Holly Hunter in the atmospheric romantic drama The Piano (1993). Anna Paquin and Holly Hunter in The Piano Anna Paquin and Holly Hunter in The Piano Paquin The Piano Paquin. Her family moved in New Zealand when she was an infant and was raised in New Zealand. She won the role of Flora McGrath the daughter of a blind Scottish pianist, who in the middle of 19th century, moves back to New Zealand for an arranged wedding after she accepted an audition for open casting; she was nine years old. She had little prior experience in acting. After moving to New Zealand, in the United States, she became an adolescent. Paquin was played as the title child in Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre in 1996. She also played an important role on the screen in Fly Away Home, a film that was released in that same year. Paquin played 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 queen of Spain in a lesser role. She played teenagers in Hurlyburly (1998) She's All That (1999) and A Walk on the Moon (1999) and portrayed the groupie Polexia Aphrodisa as a character in Almost Famous (2000).