Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin was born in Winnipeg and raised in Wellington. She began her acting career as Flora McGrath in the romantic drama film The Piano. Paquin was born in Winnipeg and was raised by Wellington Paquin's acting debut was in the role of Flora McGrath. For this role, she won the Academy Award of Best Supporting Actress for the romantic drama The Piano at the young age of 11. The actress is second youngest recipient in Oscar History. Anna Paquin spelled out Anna Helene Paquin was born in Winnipeg, Canada on the 24th of July, 1982. She is a Canadian-born actress from New Zealand. In 1993, she was awarded the Academy Award at age 11 as the curious and chatty girl who is the daughter of Holly Hunter who played the leading role. 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. She was cast as Flora McGrath the daughter of a blind Scottish pianist who in the late 19th century relocates into New Zealand for an arranged wedding when she answered an audition open to all when she was just nine years old. She had little previous experience as an actor. Following her move to America, she was a teenager. United States, she became an adult. Paquin started her acting career when she was a kid, with the character in the Jane Eyre main character in the Franco Zeffirelli novel Jane Eyre, and then an important role in Fly Away Home. Paquin played a minor role in the television movie of 1997 adaptation of Carson McCullers' novel The Member of the Wedding. Also, she played queen of Spain in Steven Spielberg's Amistad (2007). The role she played was for teenagers in Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (2000), A Walk on the Moon (2000). In addition, she was the character of the teenage groupie Polexia Aphrodisa in Almost Famous (2000).