Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin (born Winnipeg, raised in Wellington) is a Canadian actress. Paquin was born in Winnipeg was raised in Wellington and made her stage debut as Flora McGrath when she played the character of Flora McGrath in The Piano. She won an Academy Award at the age of 11 to be the Best supporting Actress. Anna Paquin in full Anna Helene Paquin (born on July 24, 1982 Winnipeg Manitoba Canada) Canadian-born New Zealand actress who as a child received an Academy Award for best supporting actress for her role as the spirited and curious daughter of the character, played by Holly Hunter in the atmospheric romantic film The Piano (1993). Anna Paquin in The Piano Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin in The Piano Paquin grew up in New Zealand after moving with her parents when she was a young child. When she answered an open call for auditions, she won the role in the role of Flora McGrath, the daughter of an mute Scottish piano player who moved from Scotland to New Zealand in mid-19th-century to marry. She was only nine years old and did not have any previous experience as an actor. As a teenager the family relocated from Canada and eventually to United States. Paquin was in a brief role in the role of Jane Eyre's title character while she was still a kid in Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre (1996) as well as an important role in the film Fly Away Home (1996). Paquin played Frankie Addams as a child in the 1996 television adaptation of Carson McCullers novel The Member of the Wedding. Paquin was also in the role of the queen of Spain, in Steven Spielbergs 1997 movie Amistad. She portrayed teens on the screen in Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (1998), A Walk on the Moon (1998) as well as Almost Famous (2000). She also portrayed the groupie Polexia Aphrodisa.