Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin, a Canadian-New Zealander actress. She was born in Winnipeg and was raised in Wellington Paquin made her acting debut portraying Flora McGrath in the romantic drama film The Piano for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress aged 11 years old, and was the 2nd youngest recipient in Oscar history. Anna Paquin full name Anna Helene Paquin, born July 24, 1982 in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. Canadian-born New Zealand actor who won the Academy Award as a youngster as Best Supporting Actress playing the enthusiastic and curious daughter of Holly Hunter's leading character on the film The Piano. Anna Paquin and Holly Hunter in The Piano Anna Paquin and Holly Hunter in The Piano Paquin relocated with their families to New Zealand when she was an infant and was raised in New Zealand. She won the role of Flora McGrath the daughter of an muffled Scottish pianist who in the middle of 19th century, moves back to New Zealand for an arranged wedding when she answered an audition for open casting at the age of nine. She was old and had almost no prior experience in acting. As a teenager the family relocated from Canadian to United States. Paquin was in a brief role in the role of Jane Eyre's title character while she was just a young girl as part of Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre (1996) and she was a leading character in the movie Fly Away Home (1996). Paquin was Frankie Addams in a 1997 film adaptation for television of Carson McCullers' novel The Member of the Wedding and had a minor role in the role of Queen Spain in Steven Spielberg's Amistad (1997). She portrayed teenagers in Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (2000) as well as A Walk on the Moon (2000). She portrayed her character groupie Polexia Aphrodisa on Almost Famous (2000).