Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin (born Winnipeg, was raised in Wellington) is the name of a Canadian actress from Canada. Paquin was born in Winnipeg and raised by Wellington Paquin's father, was first seen on stage as Flora McGrath. For this part, she was awarded the Academy Award of Best Supporting Actress for the romantic drama The Piano at the young age of 11. The actress is second-youngest winner in Oscar the history of Oscars. Anna Paquin full name Anna Helene Paquin was born on July 24 the 24th of July, 1982 in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. Canadian-born New Zealand actor who won the Academy Award as a youngster for Best Supporting Actress for playing the enthusiastic and curious child of Holly Hunter's main character in The Piano. Anna Paquin, Holly Hunter and The Piano Holly Hunter as The Piano Paquin lived in New Zealand with her family as a child. Following a prompt for open auditions at age nine years old, with no prior experience acting, she won Flora McGrath's part. Flora is the child of a Scottish pianist who was mute. They moved from Scotland to New Zealand during the middle of the 19th century in order to arrange a marriage. In her teens, Paquin relocated to America. Paquin played a minor role in the film's title role when she was still a kid as part of Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre (1996) as well as she was a leading character in the film Fly Away Home (1996). Paquin played 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 queen of Spain in a lesser role. The actress played teenagers on the screen in Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (1998), A Walk on the Moon (1998) as well as Almost Famous (2000). She also portrayed the groupie Polexia Aphrodisa.