Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin is a Canadian as well as a New Zealand actress. She was born in Winnipeg and raised in Wellington Paquin made her acting debut as Flora McGrath in the romantic drama film The Piano for which she received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at age 11 making her the second-youngest winner of the award in Oscar history. Anna Paquin in full Anna Helene Paquin (born July 24, 1982 in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada) Canadian-born New Zealand actress who as youngster received her an Academy Award for best supporting actress for her role as the inquisitive and spirited daughter of the main character, played by Holly Hunter in the atmospheric romantic film The Piano (1993). Anna Paquin in The Piano Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin in The Piano Paquin grew up in New Zealand after moving with her parents when she was a young child. When she answered an open audition call to play the character, she got it as Flora McGrath, the daughter of an mute Scottish pianist who relocates from Scotland to New Zealand in mid-19th-century to marry. She was only nine, and she had no acting experience. In her teens, she moved to the United States. Paquin was cast as the child title in Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre in 1996. She also played a leading role as a lead character in Fly Away Home, a film from the same year. Paquin played Frankie Addams, a character from Carson McCullers' novel The Member of the Wedding in 1997. In Steven Spielberg's Amistad in 1997 in which she played the Spanish queen in a less prominent role. She played teenagers on Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (2000) as well as A Walk on the Moon (2000). She portrayed groupie Polexia Aphrodisa in Almost Famous (2000).