Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin, a Canadian-New Zealander actress. Paquin was born in Winnipeg and grew up in Wellington and made her debut in the role of Flora McGrath when she played the character as Flora in The Piano. She won an Academy Award at the age of 11 for Best supporting Actress. Anna Paquin full name Anna Helene Paquin, born July 24 the 24th of July, 1982 Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. Canadian-born New Zealand actor who won the Academy Award as a youngster in the category of Best Supporting actress for acting as the bright and interesting child of Holly Hunter's main part in The Piano. Anna Paquin (left) with Holly Hunter. Holly Hunter (right) in The Piano. Paquin moved to New Zealand from Canada as an infant and was raised in the country. After responding to a call for auditions, she was able to audition when she was nine and having no acting experience before that the actress was chosen for Flora McGrath's role. Flora is the daughter of a Scottish pianist, who was deaf. The couple moved to New Zealand during the middle of the nineteenth century in an effort to arrange a marriage. Her move to the United States as a teen. Paquin made her debut when she was a kid, with the character in the Jane Eyre protagonist in Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre, and then an important role in Fly Away Home. Paquin played Frankie Addams from a television film adaptation of Carson McCullers's novels The Member of the Wedding (1997). Paquin was a part of the supporting cast in the Queen of Spain Steven Spielberg's Amistad (1997. The actress played teens as teenagers in Hurlyburly (1998) She's All That (1999) as well as A Walk on the Moon (1999) and played the groupie Polexia Aphrodisa in Almost Famous (2000).