Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin was born in Winnipeg and raised in Wellington. She began her acting career as Flora McGrath, her character in the romance film The Piano. Paquin, who was raised in Wellington but was born and raised in Winnipeg made her acting d but in The Piano. At age 11 years old, she became one of the youngest Academy Award winner ever for Best Actress. Anna Paquin spelled out Anna Helene Paquin was born in Winnipeg, Canada on the 24th of July, 1982. Her birthplace is Canada. New Zealander actress. In 1993, she received her first Academy Award at age 11 as the curious and talking girl who is the daughter of Holly Hunter who played the main character. Anna Paquin with Holly Hunter, The Piano Holly Hunter (left) and Anna Paquin. Paquin was born in Winnipeg, Canada. She moved to New Zealand as a young kid. She was cast as Flora McGrath the daughter of an muffled Scottish pianist who, in the late 19th century relocates into New Zealand for an arranged wedding when she answered an audition for open casting; she was nine years old and had almost no previous experience as an actor. When she was a teenager her family left Canada and eventually to United States. Paquin was Jane Eyre's title character as an teen in Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre (2000) and the lead role of Jane Eyre in Fly Away Home (2000). Paquin played Frankie Addams, a character from Carson McCullers' novel The Member of the Wedding in 1997. In Steven Spielberg's Amistad in 1997 in which she played the queen of Spain in a less prominent part. She played teenage girls in of Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (2000), A Walk on the Moon (2000) and portrayed her Polexia Aphrodisa character on the screen in Almost Famous (2000).