![]() ![]() Having said that, Anna became the first millennial, and the first person born in the 1980s, and the second youngest actor in history to win an Academy Award for acting. That film, not only launched her acting career but also won several awards and critical acclaim. With no doubt, Anna’s debut performance in Jane Campion’s period drama film, The Piano, is still regarded as one of her finest works till now. Not long after that, she bagged the role of Sookie Stackhouse in the HBO vampire drama television series True Blood in 2008 and went on to portray the character until 2014. Television DebutĪnna’s first acting gig came in 1997 when she was cast as Frankie Adams in the television film, The Member of the Wedding. That role catapulted her to fame and has been in the limelight since then. Her performance in the film was so good and flawless that it earned her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She played Flora McGrath, the daughter of a mute Scottish pianist, Ada McGrath (played by Holly Hunter ) in the film, which was released to widespread critical acclaim in the year 1993. ![]() She won her first acting role at just 9 years old when she auditioned for the role of a little girl in Jane Campion’s period drama film, The Piano.Įven though she had no prior acting experience, Anna stunned the casting directors with her performance and eventually won the role. Paquin is also a stepmother to Billy Moyer (born in 2000) and Lilac Moyer (born in 2002) from her husband Moyer’s previous relationships.Īnna has previously dated American actors, Joaquin Phoenix, Logan Marshall-Green and Kieran Culkin.Īnna fell in love with the performing arts at a young age and also has been actively involved in gymnastics, ballet, and swimming. They welcomed twins, a son Charlie Moyer and daughter Poppy Moyer in September 2012. The couple married on 21 August 2010 at a private residence in Malibu, California after being in a relationship for over three years. Anna Paquin HusbandĪnna Paquin is married to her longtime boyfriend and True Blood co-star Stephen Moyer. Paquin later attended Columbia University for one year but she quit her studies in the second year to pursue a career in acting. She completed the school’s Community Service requirement by working in a soup kitchen and at a Special Education Centre. She then enrolled at Windward School in Los Angeles and graduated with a high school diploma in June 2000. Paquin was educated at an array of schools, including Raphael House Rudolf Steiner School in Lower Hutt, Hutt Intermediate School, and Wellington Girls’ College, from where she completed her secondary education. She has two older siblings, Andrew Paquin, who is a director, and Katya. Her mother is an English teacher while her father is a high school Physical Education teacher. Birth NameĪnna Paquin is the daughter of Mary (Brophy) and Brian Paquin. She stood, wide-eyed and gulping for breath at the microphone for a full twenty-something-odd seconds before delivering a gracious, though rather breathless thank-you speech.Anna Paquin was born on the 24th of July 1982, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. On Oscar night in 1993, Anna Paquin was the surprise (and surprised) winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Paquin's parents separated while she was filming Fly Away Home (1996) in Canada. "In the end", she says, "it's my decision". She has two agents, Gail Cowan in New Zealand, and the William Morris agency in Los Angeles, but neither these nor her parents have much influence in deciding what she films. Paquin's rising stardom has often been a cause of charming media shyness, where it is obvious that she is an ordinary girl who happens to posses an extraordinary talent. With a well-developed vocabulary and gentle sense of humor, Paquin proves herself to be the most enchanting young talent working today. Anna Paquin is the star of several major motion pictures, including her first Oscar winning performance in The Piano (1993), the role of the young Jane in the 1996 film Jane Eyre (1996), and the role of Amy Alden in the charming family film, Fly Away Home (1996). ![]()
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