Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin was born in the city of Winnipeg, but was raised in Wellington. She was the first actress to make her acting debut in Flora McGrath, the romantic drama film The Piano. Paquin, who was raised in Wellington but born and raised in Winnipeg began her acting career in The Piano. At age 11, 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 of July, 1982. She is a Canadian-born actress from New Zealand. In 1993, she received her first Academy Award at age 11 for playing the inquisitive and chatty child of Holly Hunter who played the principal character. Anna Paquin, Holly Hunter and The Piano Holly Hunter as The Piano Paquin lived in New Zealand with her family as a child. Following a prompt for open auditions at the age of nine years old, with no acting experience before that, she won Flora McGrath's part. Flora is the daughter of a Scottish pianist, who was deaf. They moved to New Zealand during the middle of the nineteenth century in an effort to plan a wedding. In her teens, Paquin moved to America. Paquin started her acting career in the midst of her childhood with a role of the Jane Eyre title character in the Franco Zeffirelli novel Jane Eyre followed by a major part in Fly Away Home. Paquin appeared as Frankie Addams in a 1997 television movie adaptation of the novel by Carson McCullers The Member of the Wedding and also played a part in the role of Queen Spain in Steven Spielberg's Amistad (1997). She played teenage girls in of Hurlyburly (1998), She's All That (2000), A Walk on the Moon (2000) and played the polexia Aphrodisa girl on the screen in Almost Famous (2000).