Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin has been an actor in Canada and New Zealand for over a decade. Paquin, who was raised in Wellington but born and raised in Winnipeg began her acting career in The Piano. At age 11, she became one of the youngest Academy Award winner ever for Best Actress. Anna Paquin spelled out Anna Helene Paquin was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada on July 24,1982. Her birthplace is Canada. New Zealander actress. In 1993, she was awarded the Academy Award at age 11 for playing the inquisitive and chatty daughter that was Holly Hunter who played the principal character. Anna Paquin and Holly Hunter in The Piano Anna Paquin and Holly Hunter in The Piano Paquin relocated with their families in New Zealand when she was a small child and she lived there for the rest of her life. The part as Flora McGrath - the daughter of the Scottish muffled pianist from New Zealand at mid-19th Century was hers after she participated in an open audition. When she was nine years old, she had little or no experience acting. As a teenager, she relocated to America. Paquin played Jane Eyre's main character when she was a teen in Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre (2000) as well as her main character in Fly Away Home (2000). Paquin was a part-time actress in the 1997 TV movie adaptation of Carson McCullers' novel The Member of the Wedding. She also played the queen of Spain in Steven Spielberg's Amistad (2007). She portrayed teens in Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (1998), A Walk on the Moon (1998) as well as Almost Famous (2000). Also, she played the character of Polexia Aphrodisa.