Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin is a Canadian and New Zealand actress. Paquin, who was raised in Wellington but was born and raised in Winnipeg made her acting d but in The Piano. At age 11 years old, she became the youngest Academy Award winner ever for Best Actress. Anna Paquin's full name is Anna Helene Paquin. Born on July 24, 1982, on the 24th of July 1982 in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada, she was the first Canadian native New Zealand actress. As an infant, she won the Academy Award for best support actress. The role she played as the empathetic and curious young girl Holly Hunter played in The Piano (1993) was the reason she won the prize. Anna Paquin in The Piano Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin in The Piano Paquin grew up in New Zealand after moving with her parents as a child. The character of Flora McGrath - the daughter to an Scottish muffle pianist in New Zealand at mid-19th Century was a part she won after she participated in an audition open to all. When she was nine years old, she had little or any experience in acting. When she moved to New Zealand, in the United States, she became an adolescent. Paquin was the main character in the film Fly Away Home in 1996 and also had a small part in the film as Jane Eyre as only a child. Paquin portrayed Frankie Addams as a child in the 1996 television version of Carson McCullers novel The Member of the Wedding. Paquin played Queen of Spain in Steven Spielberg's 1997 feature film Amistad. She played teenagers as teenagers in Hurlyburly (1998) She's All That (1999) and A Walk on the Moon (1999) and portrayed the groupie Polexia Aphrodisa in Almost Famous (2000).