Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin, a Canadian-New Zealander actor. She was born in Winnipeg and was raised in Wellington Paquin began her acting debut as Flora McGrath in the romantic drama film The Piano for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at age 11 and was the 2nd youngest recipient of the award in Oscar history. Anna Paquin is full Anna Helene Paquin born on the 24th of July, 1982 in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. Canadian actress, and New Zealander who at the age of a youngster, was awarded the Academy Award in 1993 for the most outstanding support actress. The actress played the fierce girl who played Holly Hunter's portrayer in The Piano. 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 a small child and she was raised in New Zealand. The actress was chosen to play Flora McGrath the daughter of an blind Scottish pianist, who in the late 19th century relocates into New Zealand for an arranged wedding when she answered an open audition call; she was nine years old and had almost no previous acting experience. When she was a teenager the family relocated from Canada to the United States. Paquin had the role of lead in the film Fly Away Home in 1996 and also had a small part as Jane Eyre when she was just a young child. 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 in which she played the Spanish queen in a lesser character. She was a teenager in Hurlyburly (1998) She's All That (1999) as well as A Walk on the Moon (1999) as well as the character of a groupie Polexia Aphrodisa in Almost Famous (2000).