Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin was born in Winnipeg and raised in Wellington. She made her acting debut as Flora McGrath in the romantic drama film The Piano. Paquin is a Canadian as well as a New Zealand-born actress. She was born in Winnipeg but raised in Wellington She had her first appearance as an actor as a character in The Piano. In this romantic drama film at eleven years of age, Paquin won her second Oscar for Best Actress. Anna Paquin is full Anna Helene Paquin born on the 24th of July, 1982 in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. Canadian actor and New Zealander, who, when she was a child, won an Academy Award in 1993 for the best supporting actress. The actress played the fierce daughter of Holly Hunter's character on the film 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. She was cast as Flora McGrath the daughter of an blind Scottish pianist who, in the mid-19th century moves back to New Zealand for an arranged wedding after she accepted an audition open to all when she was just nine years old and had almost no previous acting experience. When she was in her teens, the actress moved to America. Paquin was the main character in Fly Away Home in 1996 and had a minor part in the film as Jane Eyre when she was still a toddler. Paquin played Frankie Addams from a television film version of Carson McCullers' novel The Member of the Wedding (1997). She played a minor role in Princess of Spain Steven Spielberg's Amistad (1997. The role she played was for teenagers in Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (2000), A Walk on the Moon (2000). Also, she played the role of a teen girl named Polexia Aphrodisa on Almost Famous (2000).