Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin is a Canadian as well as a New Zealand actress. Paquin, who was raised in Wellington but born and raised in Winnipeg began her acting career with The Piano. At age 11 she was an infant Academy Award winner ever for Best Actress. Anna Paquin spelled out Anna Helene Paquin was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada on the 24th of July, 1982. The Canadian born actress is also a actress from New Zealand. In 1993 she won her first Academy Award at age 11 to play the inquisitive, talkative child of Holly Hunter who played the main character. 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 as a young child, and was raised in New Zealand. In response to an audition call to play the character, she got it as Flora McGrath, the daughter of an mute Scottish pianist who relocates to New Zealand in mid-19th-century to be married. It was her first role at the age of nine and had no previous experience as an actor. As a teenager her family relocated into the United States. Paquin had a small part as the title character when she was a child as part of Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre (1996) as well as she was a leading character in the film Fly Away Home (1996). Paquin played a minor role in the TV film of 1997 version of Carson McCullers' novel The Member of the Wedding. She also played the Queen of Spain in Steven Spielberg's Amistad (2007). She played teenagers as part of Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (2000), A Walk on the Moon (2000) and played in the role of character of the polexia Aphrodisa character as part of Almost Famous (2000).