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Anna Helene Paquin (born July 24, 1982)
is an Academy Award-winning and Emmy and Golden
Globe-nominated New Zealand actress who was born in
Canada.
Her breakthrough performance was in The
Piano, which earned her an Academy Award for Best
Supporting actress as the second youngest winner in
history. She was nine years old when the movie was made,
and has continued acting since.
Early life: Paquin was born in Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Canada, the child of Brian, a Canadian high
school physical education teacher, and Mary (née
Brophy) Paquin, an English teacher and native of
Wellington, New Zealand. Paquin moved to New Zealand
when she was four.
Her musical childhood hobbies in New
Zealand included playing the viola, cello and piano. She
has also done gymnastics, ballet, swimming and downhill
skiing, but she didn't have hobbies related to acting.
Her big-screen debut happened when she attended the open
audition for Flora for The Piano. Her sister was going
to the audition, and she wanted to go too. The director
was impressed by nine-year-old Paquin's performance of
the monologue about Flora's father, and she was chosen
among the 5000 candidates.
1993 – 1996: When the The Piano was released in
1993 it was lauded by critics, won prizes at a number of
film festivals, and eventually became a popular movie
among a wide audience. Paquin's debut performance in the
film earned her an Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actress at the age of eleven, making her the
second-youngest Oscar winner in history after Tatum
O'Neal.
The Piano was made as a small independent movie and
wasn't supposed to be widely known, and Paquin and her
family didn't plan to continue in the acting circles.
However, she was invited to the prestigious William
Morris Agency, and she kept receiving offers for new
roles. She systematically refused them, but she did
appear in three commercials for the phone company MCI.
While in New Zealand, Paquin attended Hutt Intermediate
School from 1994-1995, where she completed Form 1 and 2.
Having begun her secondary education in Wellington, New
Zealand, she completed her high school diploma at
Windward School in Los Angeles, where she moved with her
mother following her parents' divorce.
In 1996, she appeared in two movies.
First one was a smallish role as young Jane in Jane
Eyre. The other one was a lead part in Fly Away Home
playing a young girl who, after her mother dies, moves
in with her father and finds solace in taking care of
orphaned goose chicks.
1997 – present: As a teenager, she had roles in
several small films, such as The Member of the Wedding,
Amistad, Hurlyburly and She's All That. She graduated
from Windward School in West Los Angeles, California in
June 2000 and completed the school's community service
requirement by working in an LA soup kitchen and at a
special education center.
She studied at Columbia University for
one year, but has since been on a leave of absence in
order to continue her acting career. In 2001, she
acquired New Zealand citizenship.
Paquin returned to worldwide prominence with her role as
Rogue in the blockbuster X-Men movie in 2000, its sequel
X2: X-Men United in 2003, and its third installment
X-Men: The Last Stand in 2006. Paquin made her stage
debut in 2001 in a production of The Glory of Living at
the MCC Theater. She was nominated for a Drama Desk
Award, and won a Theatre World Award for her
performance. In 2002, Paquin appeared on the West End
stage in a production of This is Our Youth. In the
summer of 2006, she completed filming Blue State which
she also executive-produced. In November 2006, she
completed Margaret, scheduled for release by Fox
Searchlight in 2007.
In July 2007, Paquin received a Emmy Award nomination
for Supporting Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie for
her role as Elaine Goodale in the HBO's Made-for-TV
movie Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, based on Dee
Brown's bestseller. Paquin lives in the West Village in
New York City. |
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