Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin was born in the city of Winnipeg, but was raised in Wellington. She was the first actress to make her acting debut in Flora McGrath in the romantic drama film The Piano. Paquin was born in Winnipeg was raised in Wellington and made her stage debut in the role of Flora McGrath when she played her role in The Piano. She won an Academy Award at the age of 11 to be the Best Actress Supporting Actress. Anna Paquin in full Anna Helene Paquin (born July 24 1982 in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada) Canadian-born New Zealand actress who as youngster was awarded an Academy Award for best supporting actress in her performance as the spirited and curious daughter of the character played by Holly Hunter in the atmospheric romantic film The Piano (1993). Anna Paquin, Holly Hunter and The Piano Holly Hunter as The Piano Paquin lived in New Zealand with her family while she was a young girl. The actress was chosen to play Flora McGrath the daughter of the muffled Scottish pianist, who in the middle of 19th century, moves into New Zealand for an arranged marriage when she responded to an open audition call; she was nine years old and had almost no previous experience as an actor. When she was a teenager her family relocated into the United States. Paquin made her debut in the midst of her childhood with a role of the Jane Eyre protagonist in Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre, and then an important role on the film Fly Away Home. Paquin played Frankie Addams, a character in Carson McCullers' novel The Member of the Wedding in 1997. In Steven Spielberg's Amistad in 1997 in which she played the Spanish queen in a smaller role. She played teenage girls in of Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (2000), A Walk on the Moon (2000) as well as in the role of character of the polexia Aphrodisa groupie in Almost Famous (2000).