Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin was born in 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 Wellington but born and raised in Winnipeg became an actor as a character in The Piano. At age 11, she became one of the youngest Academy Award winner ever for Best Actress. Anna Paquin in full Anna Helene Paquin (born on July 24, 1982 Winnipeg Manitoba Canada) Canadian-born New Zealand actress who as a child won the Academy Award for best supporting actress in her performance as the loquacious and inquisitive daughter of the lead role played by Holly Hunter in the atmospheric romance movie The Piano (1993). 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. When she answered an open invitation to auditions, she won the role as Flora McGrath, the daughter of a deaf Scottish piano player who relocates to New Zealand in mid-19th-century to get married. At the time, she was nineteen and did not have any acting experience. The actress moved from New Zealand to United States as a teen. Paquin played the child character in Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre in 1996. She also played the title role as a lead character in Fly Away Home, a film released the same year. Paquin portrayed Frankie Addams, a character in Carson McCullers' novel The Member of the Wedding in 1997. Also, she played the Queen of Spain in Steven Spielberg's Amistad (2007). She played teenagers as part of Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (2000), A Walk on the Moon (2000) as well as the polexia Aphrodisa groupie in Almost Famous (2000).