Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin (born Winnipeg, was raised in Wellington) is a Canadian actress from Canada. Paquin is a Canadian and New Zealand-born actress. Born in Winnipeg but brought up in Wellington, she made her first acting appearance as a character in The Piano. In this romantic drama film at 11 years old, Paquin won her second Oscar for Best Actress. Anna Paquin's full title is Anna Helene Paquin. Born on July 24, 1982, on the 24th of July 1982 in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada, she was the first Canadian born New Zealand actress. As as a young girl, she was awarded her the Academy Award for best support actress. The role she played as the enthusiastic and lively young girl Holly Hunter played in The Piano (1993) brought her the prize. Anna Paquin (left) with Holly Hunter. Holly Hunter (right) in The Piano. Paquin moved to New Zealand from Canada as young girl, and then grew up there. Following a prompt for open auditions when she was nine and having no previous experience in acting the actress was chosen for Flora McGrath's role. Flora is the child of a Scottish pianist, who was deaf. They moved to New Zealand during the middle of the nineteenth century to plan a wedding. After moving into the United States, she became an adolescent. Paquin was in a brief role in the role of Jane Eyre's title character while she was just a young girl on Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre (1996) as well as she was a leading character in the film Fly Away Home (1996). Paquin played Frankie Addams as a child in the television adaptation of Carson McCullers novel The Member of the Wedding. Paquin also had a role of the queen of Spain, in Steven Spielbergs 1997 film Amistad. She played teenage girls in of Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (2000), A Walk on the Moon (2000) as well as in the role of character of the polexia Aphrodisa groupie in Almost Famous (2000).