Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin was born in Winnipeg and raised in the city of Wellington. She became an actor in the role of Flora McGrath in romantic drama film, The Piano. Paquin is a native of Winnipeg was raised in Wellington and made her stage debut in the role of Flora McGrath when she played the role in The Piano. She won an Academy Award at the age of 11 for Best supporting Actress. Anna Paquin full name Anna Helene Paquin was born on July 24 in 1982 Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. Canadian-born New Zealand actor who won the Academy Award as a youngster as Best Supporting Actress her role as the curious and sociable daughter of Holly Hunter's main character as Holly Hunter in The Piano. Anna Paquin and Holly Hunter in The Piano Anna Paquin and Holly Hunter in The Piano Paquin and Holly Hunter in The Piano Paquin. They moved with their family from Canada to New Zealand when she was as a young child, and was raised in New Zealand. After a public audition, at nine she changed her name to Flora McGrath - the daughter of the Scottish piano player who was muted in the 19th century. Her family moved into New Zealand to marry an arrangement-based husband. When she was in her teens, the actress was able to move to the United States. Paquin played a minor role in the film's title role when she was just a young girl as part of Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre (1996) and an important role in the movie Fly Away Home (1996). Paquin was a part-time actress in the television movie of 1997 adapting Carson McCullers novel The Member of the Wedding. In Steven Spielberg's Amistad, she played the queen of Spain in a minor part. She played teenage girls in of Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (2000), A Walk on the Moon (2000) as well as her polexia Aphrodisa girl in Almost Famous (2000).