Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin has been an actress in Canada as well as New Zealand for over a decade. Paquin who was born in Wellington but born and raised in Winnipeg began her acting career in The Piano. At age 11, she became the youngest Academy Award winner ever for Best Actress. Anna Paquin in full Anna Helene Paquin (born July 24, 1982 in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada) Canadian-born New Zealand actress who as was a young girl was awarded the Academy Award for best supporting actress in her performance as the spirited and curious daughter of the character played by Holly Hunter in the atmospheric romantic drama The Piano (1993). Anna Paquin, Holly Hunter and The Piano Holly Hunter as The Piano Paquin lived in New Zealand with her family as a child. The character of Flora McGrath - the daughter to an Scottish muffled pianist from New Zealand at mid-19th Century was hers after she participated in an audition open to all. In her twenties her age, she was a novice or had any experience in acting. Following her move into New Zealand, in the United States, she became an adolescent. Paquin appeared as Jane Eyre's title character as a teenager in Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre (2000) as well as the main role in Fly Away Home (2000). Paquin was the character 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 movie Amistad. The actress played teenagers in Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (1998), A Walk on the Moon (1998) and Almost Famous (2000). Also, she played the character of Polexia Aphrodisa.