Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin, a Canadian-New Zealander actor. Paquin was born in Winnipeg and raised by Wellington Paquin's acting debut was as Flora McGrath. For this role she received the Academy Award of Best Supporting Actress for the romantic drama The Piano at the young age of 11. The actress is second-youngest winner in Oscar history. Anna Paquin is full Anna Helene Paquin born on the 24th July 1982 Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. Canadian actor and New Zealander who, when she was a child, won the Academy Award in 1993 for the top supporting actress. She was the fiery daughter of Holly Hunter's portrayer The Piano. The Piano. Anna Paquin (left) with Holly Hunter. Holly Hunter (right) in The Piano. Paquin moved to New Zealand from Canada as a little girl and grew in the country. When she answered an audition call, she won the role in the role of Flora McGrath, the daughter of a mute Scottish piano player who moved from Scotland to New Zealand in mid-19th-century to be married. She was only nine years old and did not have any prior experience in acting. When she moved into New Zealand, in the United States, she became an adolescent. Paquin began her career as a child with a character in the Jane Eyre protagonist in the Franco Zeffirelli novel Jane Eyre, and then an important role in Fly Away Home. Paquin played Frankie Addams from a television film adaptation of Carson McCullers's novel The Member of the Wedding (1997). Paquin played a minor role in Princess of Spain Steven Spielberg's Amistad (1997. She played teenagers on the screen 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).