Anna Paquin Biography

Anna Paquin Biography

Date of Birth
24 July 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Birth Name
Anna Helene Paquin

Height
5' 5" (1.65 m)


Anna Paquin Biography

Anna Paquin is that the star of many major motion footage, together with her initial Oscar winning performance within the Piano (1993), the role of the young Jane within the 1996 film Jane Eyre (1996), and therefore the role of Amy Alden within the charming family film, Fly Away Home (1996). With a well-developed vocabulary and mild sense of humor, Paquin proves herself to be the foremost enchanting young talent operating these days. Paquin's rising stardom has usually been a explanation for charming media shyness, where it's obvious that she is a standard woman who happens to posses a unprecedented talent. She has 2 agents, Gail Cowan in New Zealand, and therefore the William Morris agency in la, however neither these nor her oldsters have a lot of influence to decide what she films. "In the end", she says, "it's my decision". Paquin's oldsters separated whereas she was filming Fly Away Home (1996) in Canada. On Oscar night in 1993, Anna Paquin was the surprise (and surprised) winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. 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 Biography

Anna Paquin, the young Canadian who grew up in New Zealand and whose solely acting expertise was as a skunk at a faculty play, surprised movie-goers from everywhere the planet along with her performance as Holly Hunter's angry young daughter within the acclaimed film The Piano (1993). Anna, who received an Oscar for her performance (the second youngest Oscar winner ever), has proven that The Piano (1993) was solely the start of a wonderful career.

She starred in Carroll Ballard's Fly Away Home (1996) and in Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre (1996). once her parents' divorce, she moved to l.  a.   along with her mother and sister so as to pursue additional actively a career in acting. Soon enough, she created the transition from child-actress to teenage actress along with her performance in Hurlyburly (1998) alongside Sean Penn, Kevin Spacey and Meg Ryan and during a Walk on the Moon (1999) alongside Diane Lane, Viggo Mortensen and Liev Schreiber. Paquin, who has become an professional at portraying troubled teenagers, then starred within the fashionable science fiction film, the X-Men (2000). constant year, 2000, she additionally appeared in films like Cameron Crowe's virtually Famous (2000) and Gus Van Sant's Finding Forrester (2000). Anna, who was a student at Columbia University, moved to the big apple town and started a brand new career as a stage actress showing each in the big apple and London.

Spouse
Stephen Moyer     (21 August 2010 - present)

Trade Mark

Gap in teeth

Trivia

She is a vegetarian.

While filming the movie Amistad (1997) in Montreal during the summer, she made a side-trip to Toronto to film 5 TV commercials for the telephone company of her old hometown in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She delivers the commercials in a variety of costumes in her Canadian accent rather than her New Zealand one. [1997]

She keeps her Oscar in her bedroom closet so her friends won't see it and feel the need to comment on it.

She enjoys photography.

Family moved to New Zealand when Anna was 4.

Has an older brother, Andrew Paquin, a film producer, with whom she is working on Blue State (2007)), and a sister, Katya.

She plays the cello.

Father, Brian, is a physical education teacher. Mother, Mary, is an English teacher.

Her parents are divorced.

Hobbies: rugby; running; playing the piano; singing; gymnastics; swimming; downhill skiing; reading and knitting.

Enjoys listening to alternative music.

When she was younger, she wanted to be the Prime Minister of New Zealand, or a lawyer.

She has 2 cats and 1 dog.

Speaks French.

Graduated from Windward School in West Los Angeles, California in June 2000; she completed the school's community service requirement by working in an LA soup kitchen and at a special education center.

One of Teen People Magazine's "25 Hottest Stars under 25". [2002]

College classmate of Julia Stiles at Columbia University.

Is a fan of the alternative rock band Nine Inch Nails and The Beatles.

She was the original choice to play the character of Enola in Kevin Costner's Waterworld (1995) but, eventually, the role fell to Tina Majorino.

Attending Columbia University. [2005]

When on a talk show, the host told her he would give her $10,000 if she could shoot a basketball into a hoop. She did, but he refused to pay. After bad press he gave her the money which she donated to charity.

Played the daughter of Jeff Daniels in Fly Away Home (1996) and then his romantic partner in The Squid and the Whale (2005) nine years later.

Was number 93 on vh1's "100 Greatest Kid Stars" (2005).

Has kept in close contact with Shawn Ashmore (Iceman/Bobby Drake) and Aaron Stanford (John Allerdyce/Pyro) after filming X2 (2003).

Though she was born in Canada she considers herself a Kiwi from New Zealand since she grew up there.

Ranked #50 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 Women of 2008 list.

Announced her engagement to Stephen Moyer, having been in a relationship since February 2009 after meeting on the set of "True Blood" (2008), after he proposed to her on a beach in Hawaii (5 August 2009).

Among the guests at her wedding to Stephen Moyer were Alan Ball, Ryan Kwanten, Sam Trammell, Rutina Wesley, Carrie Preston and Elijah Wood.

Mentioned on "Late Show with David Letterman: Episode #16.176" (2009) that she had recently seen her first movie The Piano (1993) for the first time in her life.

Went to Columbia University in New York, but left after a year and did not graduate in order to pursue acting.

Step-mother of Stephen Moyer's children Billy and Lilac.

Was ranked #84 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women of 2010 list.

Ranked #51 in the 2011 FHM Australia list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World".

She is naturally brunette but has kept her hair blonde since she's started playing Sookie Stackhouse on "True Blood" (2008).

Personal Quotes

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. It wouldn't be acting.

Everything regarding being a young adult and not feeling such as you slot in is simply magnified by being a mutant!

If i do not do laundry nowadays, i am gonna ought to obtain new garments tomorrow.

There are only a few films or plays or something regarding very happy individuals with excellent lives. most are sometimes screwed up in how which is typically where the work comes in - working out a way to build it believable and build it real to gift someone's issues that you simply do not essentially truly understand something regarding. I mean it's not difficult to be happy all the time. i do not suppose I might do it!

I simply do what feels right. i feel the nice issue regarding aiming to do what I do is that you simply will try being a unique person while not having to screw up your life to try and do it.

I'm not terribly political. i am conjointly not yankee and that i aren't getting to vote therefore my feelings don't seem to be very relevant.

You'll live a full and happy life if your pursue belongings you suppose are necessary and live the life you wish to measure.

Salary
"True Blood" (2008)     $75,000/episode

Where Are They Now

(January 2003) Returning to continue her studies at Columbia University in New York.

(May 2004) Starring in Neil LaBute's Off-Broadway play, "The Distance from Here."

(February 2005) Starring in the Off-Broadway production of "After Ashley".

(April 2006) Filming Blue State (2007) in Canada.

(2007) Working on "True Blood" (2008), an HBO series.

(February 2010) Working on "True Blood" (2008).