Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin was born in the city of Winnipeg, but was raised in Wellington. She began her acting career as Flora McGrath in her character in the romance film Piano. Paquin, who was raised in Wellington but born and raised in Winnipeg was first seen in the acting world in The Piano. At age 11 years old, she became the youngest Academy Award winner ever for Best Actress. Anna Paquin spelled out Anna Helene Paquin was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada on the 24th July of 1982. She is a Canadian-born actress from New Zealand. In 1993, she received her first Academy Award at age 11 as the curious and talking girl who is the daughter that was Holly Hunter who played the main character. 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 an muffled Scottish pianist who, in the middle of 19th century, moves to New Zealand for an arranged wedding when she answered an open audition call at the age of nine. She was old. She had little previous experience as an actor. At the age of a teen the family relocated from Canada and eventually to United States. Paquin started her acting career as a child with a part as the Jane Eyre title character in the Franco Zeffirelli novel Jane Eyre followed by an important role of Fly Away Home. Paquin played Frankie Addams as a child in the TV version of Carson McCullers novel The Member of the Wedding. Paquin was also in the role of Queen of Spain, in Steven Spielbergs 1997 film Amistad. She portrayed teens on the screen in Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (1998), A Walk on the Moon (1998) and Almost Famous (2000). She also portrayed the groupie Polexia Aphrodisa.