Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin, a Canadian-New Zealander actress. Paquin is a Canadian and New Zealand actress. She was born in Winnipeg but brought up in Wellington She was the first actress to appear on screen in The Piano. In this romantic drama, she was 11 years old, Paquin won her second Oscar for Best Actress. Anna Paquin full name Anna Helene Paquin born July 24 in 1982 Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. Canadian-born New Zealand actor who won the Academy Award as a youngster in the category of Best Supporting actress for portraying the bright and curious daughter of Holly Hunter's main character on the film 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 responded to a request for open auditions at age nine, and with little previous experience in acting when she was selected for the role of Flora McGrath role. Flora is the child of an Scottish pianist who was mute. They relocated to New Zealand during the middle of the nineteenth century in an effort to arrange a marriage. At the age of a teen her family left Canadian to United States. Paquin played the lead role in Fly Away Home in 1996 and had a minor part in the film as Jane Eyre when she was only a child. Paquin was in the role of Frankie Addams, a character from Carson McCullers' novel The Member of the Wedding in 1997. In Steven Spielberg's Amistad in 1997 in which she played the queen of Spain in a less prominent character. The actress played teenagers on the screen in Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (1998), A Walk on the Moon (1998) and Almost Famous (2000). In addition, she portrayed the groupie Polexia Aphrodisa.