Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin (born Winnipeg, was raised in Wellington) is an Canadian actress from Canada. Paquin was born in Winnipeg and grew up in Wellington and first made her acting debut as Flora McGrath when she played her role of Flora McGrath in The Piano. She won an Academy Award at the age of 11 to be the Best supporting Actress. Anna Paquin in full Anna Helene Paquin (born on July 24, 1982 Winnipeg Manitoba Canada) Canadian-born New Zealand actress who as a child was awarded the Academy Award for best supporting actress in her performance as the loquacious and inquisitive daughter of the character played by Holly Hunter in the atmospheric romantic film The Piano (1993). Anna Paquin, Holly Hunter and The Piano Holly Hunter as The Piano Paquin lived in New Zealand with her family when she was young. She won the role of Flora McGrath the daughter of an muffled Scottish pianist, who in the middle of 19th century, moves into New Zealand for an arranged marriage when she responded to an audition for open casting; she was nine years old, and had no previous experience as an actor. In her teens, Paquin moved to America. Paquin had a small part as the title character when she was a child in Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre (1996) as well as an important role in the movie 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, she played the Spanish queen in a lesser part. She played teenagers as teenagers in Hurlyburly (1998) She's All That (1999) and A Walk on the Moon (1999) as well as the character of a groupie Polexia Aphrodisa in Almost Famous (2000).