Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin is a Canadian as well as a New Zealand actress. Paquin, born in Winnipeg and raised by Wellington Paquin's acting debut was as Flora McGrath. For this role, she won an Academy Award of Best Supporting Actress in the romantic comedy The Piano at the young age of eleven. She is the second youngest winner in Oscar History. Anna Paquin spelled out Anna Helene Paquin was born in Winnipeg, Canada on July 24,1982. Her birthplace is Canada. New Zealander actress. In 1993, she was awarded an Academy Award at age 11 for playing the inquisitive and talkative girl who is the daughter that was Holly Hunter who played the main role. Anna Paquin with Holly Hunter, The Piano Holly Hunter (left) and Anna Paquin. Paquin was born in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada and moved to New Zealand as a young kid. She won the role of Flora McGrath the daughter of an mute Scottish pianist, who in the late 19th century relocates to New Zealand for an arranged wedding after she accepted an open audition call at the age of nine. She was old and had almost no previous experience as an actor. As a teenager, she moved into the United States. Paquin was in a brief role in the film's title role when she was just a young girl as part of Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre (1996) and she was a leading character in the film Fly Away Home (1996). Paquin played 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 role. She played teenagers on Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (2000) as well as A Walk on the Moon (2000). The actress played her character groupie Polexia Aphrodisa in Almost Famous (2000).