Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin, a Canadian-New Zealander actor. Paquin who was born in Wellington but born and raised in Winnipeg began her acting career on screen in The Piano. At age 11 she was the youngest Academy Award winner ever 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 native New Zealand actress. As an infant, she won an Academy Award for best support actress. Her role as the empathetic and curious character Holly Hunter played in The Piano (1993) brought her the prize. Anna Paquin and Holly Hunter in The Piano Anna Paquin and Holly Hunter in The Piano Paquin relocated with their families in New Zealand when she was a small child and she lived there for the rest of her life. After responding to a call to auditions open at age nine years old, with no prior experience acting, she won Flora McGrath's role. Flora is the daughter of an Scottish pianist, who was deaf. They were relocated to New Zealand during the middle of the nineteenth century to get married. At the age of a teen, her family moved from Canada and eventually to United States. Paquin began her career when she was a kid, with the part as the Jane Eyre title character in Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre, and then an important role on the film Fly Away Home. Paquin was in the role of Frankie Addams, a character in Carson McCullers' novel The Member of the Wedding in 1997. In Steven Spielberg's Amistad in 1997, she played the Spanish queen in a lesser character. The actress played teens 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).