Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin has been an actor in Canada and New Zealand for over a decade. Paquin who was born in Wellington however was born and bred in Winnipeg made her acting d but in The Piano. At age 11, she became the youngest Academy Award winner ever for Best Actress. Anna Paquin spelled out Anna Helene Paquin was born in Winnipeg, Canada on July 24,1982. The Canadian born actress is also a actress from New Zealand. In 1993 she won the Academy Award at age 11 for playing the inquisitive and chatty girl who is the daughter of Holly Hunter who played the principal character. Anna Paquin, Holly Hunter and The Piano Holly Hunter as The Piano Paquin lived in New Zealand with her family when she was young. After responding to a call to auditions open at age nine, and with little prior experience acting the actress was chosen for Flora McGrath's part. Flora was the daughter of a Scottish musician who was blind. The couple moved to New Zealand during the middle of the nineteenth century in an effort to get married. At the age of a teen the family relocated from Canada and eventually to United States. Paquin played Jane Eyre's main character when she was an teen in Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre (2000) and her main character for the character in Fly Away Home (2000). Paquin played Frankie Addams as a child in the TV film adaptation Carson McCullers novel The Member of the Wedding. Paquin also had a role of Queen of Spain in Steven Spielberg's 1997 movie Amistad. She portrayed teenagers in Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (2000) and A Walk on the Moon (2000). She played groupie Polexia Aphrodisa in Almost Famous (2000).