Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin has been an actress across Canada and New Zealand for over a decade. Paquin, born in Winnipeg and was raised by Wellington Paquin's acting debut was as Flora McGrath. For this role she received an Academy Award of Best Supporting Actress in the romantic drama The Piano at the young age of eleven. She was the second youngest recipient in Oscar the history of Oscars. Anna Paquin spelled out Anna Helene Paquin was born in Winnipeg, Canada on the 24th of July, 1982. Her birthplace is Canada. New Zealander actress. In 1993, she received an Academy Award at age 11 as the curious and talking girl who is the daughter of Holly Hunter who played the principal role. Anna Paquin in The Piano Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin in The Piano Paquin grew up in New Zealand after moving with her parents while she was young. When she responded to a request for open auditions at the age of nine years old, with no previous experience in acting the actress was chosen for Flora McGrath's role. Flora is the daughter of an Scottish pianist who was mute. They were relocated to New Zealand during the middle of the nineteenth century in an effort to get married. When she moved to the United States, she became an adolescent. Paquin had the role of lead in Fly Away Home in 1996 and had a minor part as Jane Eyre when she was only a child. Paquin portrayed Frankie Addams as a child in the 1996 television adaptation of Carson McCullers novel The Member of the Wedding. Paquin played Queen of Spain, in Steven Spielbergs 1997 feature film Amistad. She played teenage girls in of Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (2000), A Walk on the Moon (2000) and portrayed her character of the polexia Aphrodisa groupie on the screen in Almost Famous (2000).