Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin is a Canadian as well as a New Zealand actress. Born in Winnipeg and was raised in Wellington Paquin was able to make her acting debut portraying Flora McGrath in the romantic drama film The Piano for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at the age of 11, making her the second-youngest winner of the award in Oscar history. Anna Paquin's full title is Anna Helene Paquin. Born on July 24, 1982, at Winnipeg Manitoba Canada, she was a Canadian native New Zealand actress. As an infant, she won an Academy Award for best support actress. The role she played as the empathetic and curious character Holly Hunter played in The Piano (1993) earned her the prize. Anna Paquin and Holly Hunter in The Piano Anna Paquin and Holly Hunter in The Piano Paquin relocated with their families into New Zealand when she was as a young child, and grew up there. The actress was chosen to play Flora McGrath the daughter of a muffled Scottish pianist, who in the middle of 19th century, moves back to New Zealand for an arranged wedding when she answered an audition for open casting when she was just nine years old, and had no previous experience as an actor. When she was a teenager, her family moved from Canada to the United States. Paquin was in a brief role in the film's title role when she was still a kid on Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre (1996) as well as an important role in the film Fly Away Home (1996). 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 her character was the Spanish queen in a lesser character. She played teenage girls in of Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (2000), A Walk on the Moon (2000) and portrayed in the role of polexia Aphrodisa groupie as part of Almost Famous (2000).