Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin is a Canadian and New Zealand actress. Paquin is a Canadian as well as a actress from New Zealand. Born in Winnipeg but brought up in Wellington, she was the first actress to appear 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 name was Anna Helene Paquin. Born July 24th 1982 at Winnipeg Manitoba Canada, she was a Canadian native New Zealand actress. As a child, Paquin won an Academy Award for best support actress. The role she played as the talkative and inquisitive character Holly Hunter played in The Piano (1993) was the reason she won the prize. Anna Paquin and Holly Hunter in The Piano Anna Paquin and Holly Hunter in The Piano Paquin moved with her family in New Zealand when she was an infant and lived there for the rest of her life. When she responded to a request to auditions open at age nine years old, with no prior experience acting the actress was chosen for Flora McGrath's part. Flora is the daughter of a Scottish pianist who was mute. They were relocated from Scotland to New Zealand during the middle of the nineteenth century to get married. In her teens, Paquin relocated to America. Paquin was cast as the child title in Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre in the year 1996. Also, she was a leading role as a lead character in Fly Away Home, a movie from the year. Paquin played Frankie Addams as a child in the 1996 television film adaptation Carson McCullers novel The Member of the Wedding. Paquin also had a role of Queen of Spain, in Steven Spielbergs 1997 feature film Amistad. She played teens as teens in Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (1998), A Walk on the Moon (1998) and Almost Famous (2000). Also, she played the character of Polexia Aphrodisa.