Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin is a Canadian as well as a New Zealand actress. Paquin who was born in Wellington but was born and bred in Winnipeg became an actor with The Piano. At age 11, she became an infant Academy Award winner ever for Best Actress. Anna Paquin is full Anna Helene Paquin born on the 24th July 1982 Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. Canadian actress, and New Zealander who, as a kid was awarded an Academy Award in 1993 for the top supporting actress. She was the fiery child of Holly Hunter's role in The Piano. Anna Paquin and Holly Hunter in The Piano Anna Paquin and Holly Hunter in The Piano Paquin moved with her family into New Zealand when she was an infant and grew up there. After she responded to an open casting call to play the character, she was chosen as Flora McGrath, the daughter of a deaf Scottish piano player who moved to New Zealand in mid-19th-century to be married. She was only nineteen and did not have any acting experience. The actress moved to the United States as a teen. Paquin has a tiny part in the film's title role when she was a child on Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre (1996) as well as an important role in the film Fly Away Home (1996). Paquin had a small role in the 1997 television film adaptation of Carson McCullers novel The Member of the Wedding. In Steven Spielberg's Amistad her character was the Spanish queen in a minor part. In addition, she was a teenager for Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (1998), A Walk on the Moon(1999) as well as Almost Famous (2000). She also played the groupie Polexia Aphrodisa.