Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin has been an actress in Canada as well as New Zealand for over a decade. She was born in Winnipeg and raised in Wellington Paquin began her acting debut in the role of Flora McGrath in the romantic drama film The Piano for which she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at age 11 and was the 2nd youngest recipient of the award in Oscar history. Anna Paquin spelled out Anna Helene Paquin was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada on July 24,1982. The Canadian born actress is also a actress from New Zealand. In 1993, she received her first Academy Award at age 11 as the curious and chatty child of Holly Hunter who played the principal role. Anna Paquin, Holly Hunter and The Piano Holly Hunter as The Piano Paquin lived in New Zealand with her family when she was young. The character of Flora McGrath - the daughter of an Scottish muffled pianist from New Zealand at mid-19th Century was hers when she attended an audition for the role. When she was nine years old, she had little or any experience in acting. When she was in her teens, the actress made the move to America. Paquin appeared as Jane Eyre's title character as an teen in Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre (2000) and her main character of Jane Eyre in Fly Away Home (2000). Paquin played Frankie Addams from a television film adaptation of Carson McCullers' book The Member of the Wedding (1997). The actress played a minor role in the Queen of Spain Steven Spielberg's Amistad (1997. She played teenage girls in of Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (2000), A Walk on the Moon (2000) and played in the role of polexia Aphrodisa character on the screen in Almost Famous (2000).