Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin was born in the city of Winnipeg, but was raised in Wellington. She made her acting debut as Flora McGrath, her character in the romance film The Piano. Born in Winnipeg and was raised in Wellington Paquin was able to make her acting debut portraying Flora McGrath in the romantic drama film The Piano for which she received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at age 11 which makes her the second youngest winner to win an award within Oscar history. Anna Paquin in full Anna Helene Paquin (born July 24 1982 Winnipeg Manitoba Canada) Canadian-born New Zealand actress who as was a young girl was awarded her an Academy Award for best supporting actress in her performance as the loquacious and inquisitive daughter of the character played by Holly Hunter in the atmospheric romantic drama The Piano (1993). Anna Paquin (left) with Holly Hunter. Holly Hunter (right) in The Piano. Paquin moved to New Zealand from Canada as a little girl and grew there. Following a prompt to auditions open at the age of nine and having no previous experience in acting, she won Flora McGrath's role. Flora was the daughter of an Scottish pianist, who was deaf. The couple were relocated to New Zealand during the middle of the nineteenth century to plan a wedding. As a teenager she emigrated from New Zealand to United States. Paquin played Jane Eyre's title character as a teen in Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre (2000) and her main character for the character in Fly Away Home (2000). Paquin was in the role of Frankie Addams, a character from Carson McCullers' novel The Member of the Wedding in 1997. In Steven Spielberg's Amistad in 1997, she played the Spanish queen in a lesser character. She played teenagers as part of Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (2000), A Walk on the Moon (2000) as well as the character of the polexia Aphrodisa character as part of Almost Famous (2000).