Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin is a Canadian and New Zealand actress. Paquin, born in Winnipeg and raised by Wellington Paquin's father, was first seen on stage as Flora McGrath. For this role she received the Academy Award of Best Supporting Actress in The romantic drama The Piano at the young age of eleven. She is the second youngest winner in Oscar the history of Oscars. Anna Paquin is full Anna Helene Paquin born on July 24, 1982 Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. Canadian actor and New Zealander who, at the age of a youngster, was awarded her first Academy Award in 1993 for the top support actress. The actress played the fierce daughter of Holly Hunter's role in The Piano. Anna Paquin, Holly Hunter and The Piano Holly Hunter as The Piano Paquin lived in New Zealand with her family when she was young. She was cast as Flora McGrath the daughter of an muffled Scottish pianist who in the mid-19th century moves into New Zealand for an arranged marriage when she responded to an open audition call; she was nine years old, and had no previous experience as an actor. She moved from New Zealand to United States as a teen. Paquin began her career in the midst of her childhood with a role of the Jane Eyre title character in Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre followed by she played a significant role on the film Fly Away Home. Paquin played Frankie Addams in a 1997 TV movie adaptation of Carson McCullers's novel The Member of the Wedding and had a minor role as the queen of Spain in Steven Spielberg's Amistad (1997). The actress played teens in the films of Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (2000), A Walk on the Moon (2000) and portrayed in the role of character of the polexia Aphrodisa groupie on the screen in Almost Famous (2000).