Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin was born in Winnipeg and raised in Wellington. She was the first actress to make her acting debut in Flora McGrath, her character in the romance film Piano. Born in Winnipeg and was raised in Wellington Paquin began her acting debut as Flora McGrath in the romantic drama film The Piano for which she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at age 11 and was the 2nd youngest recipient in Oscar history. Anna Paquin spelled out Anna Helene Paquin was born in Winnipeg, Canada on the 24th July of 1982. Her birthplace is Canada. New Zealander actress. In 1993, she received an Academy Award at age 11 for playing the inquisitive and talkative 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 when she was young. Following a prompt for auditions, she was able to audition when she was nine, and with little previous experience in acting, she won Flora McGrath's part. Flora is the child of an Scottish musician who was blind. The couple moved to New Zealand during the middle of the nineteenth century to get married. In her teens, Paquin moved to America. Paquin had a small part in the film's title role when she was still a kid on Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre (1996) and she was a leading character in the film Fly Away Home (1996). Paquin was Frankie Addams from a television film adaptation of Carson McCullers' book The Member of the Wedding (1997). Paquin was a part of the supporting cast in Princess of Spain Steven Spielberg's Amistad (1997. She portrayed teens on the screen in Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (1998), A Walk on the Moon (1998) as well as Almost Famous (2000). She also portrayed the groupie Polexia Aphrodisa.