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Anna Paquin, born July 24, 1982 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is a Canadian Kiwi actress who plays the role of protagonist Sookie Stackhouse on the HBO original series True Blood. Making her debut in the series' premiere episode, "Strange Love", in the series' first season, Sookie plays a prominent recurring role through the series' first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh seasons. Winning a Golden Globe for the role, Anna plays the role of a halfling, which is a human/faerie hybrid. Her Fae heritage is so extremely diluted, however, that her Faerie powers are limited and finite. Descended from Niall Brigant, the King of the original tribe of Fae, Anna was last seen in the series' finale episode, "Thank You", in the series' seventh, and final season.

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Anna Paquin, the young Canadian who grew up in New Zealand and whose only acting experience was as a skunk at a school play, stunned movie-goers from all over the world with her performance as Holly Hunter's angry young daughter in 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 only the beginning of a fabulous career. She has been in a relationship with co-star Stephen Moyer since the series' pilot and became engaged in August of 2009.

On August 21, 2010, Anna and Stephen married in a small, private Malibu, California ceremony.

On April 17, 2012, it was announced that Anna is expecting their twins in the Fall. Her pregnancy won't be written into her character's storylines."True Bloo

1993 film by Jane Campion

This article is about the film. For the instrument, see Piano. For other uses, see Piano (disambiguation).

The Piano is a 1993 historical drama film written and directed by New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion. It stars Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, and Anna Paquin in her first major acting role. The film focuses on a mute Scottish woman who travels to a remote part of New Zealand with her young daughter after her arranged marriage to a settler. The plot has similarities to Jane Mander's 1920 novel, The Story of a New Zealand River, but also substantial differences. Campion has cited the novels Wuthering Heights and The African Queen as inspirations.

An international co-production between New Zealand, Australia, and France, The Piano was a critical and commercial success, grossing US$140.2 million worldwide (equivalent to $295.7 million in 2023) against its US$7 million budget (equivalent to $14.8 million in 2023). It was noted for its crossover appeal beyond the arthouse circuit to attracting mainstream popularity, largely due to rave reviews and word of mouth.

Hunter and Paquin both received high praise for their performances. In 1993, the film won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, making Campion the first female director to receive the award. It won three Academy Awards out of eight total nominations in March 1994: Best Actress for Hunter, Best Supporting Actress for Paquin, and Best Original Screenplay for Campion. Paquin was 11 years old at the time and remains the second-youngest actor to win an Oscar in a competitive category.

Plot

In the mid-1800s, Ada McGrath, a Scottish woman with elective mutism, travels to colonial New Zealand with her daughter Flora for an arranged marriage to settler Alisdair Stewart. Ada has not spoken since the age of six, and the reason for this as well as the identity of Flora's father remain unknown. Sh

Anna Paquin has been acting since the age of seven, which led her to become the second youngest Oscar winner in history. Even with this phenomenal achievement, she's best known for her work in franchises like True Blood and The X Men Trilogy. 

Anna Paquin's childhood

The daughter of PE teacher Brian and his English teacher wife Mary, Anna was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in Canada on July 24, 1982. 

The family moved to New Zealand in 1986, where she grew up alongside older siblings Andrew and Katya. Her stage debut came aged seven with a brief appearance in a school play as a skunk - "I leapt on stage and then skipped off" - but a career as an actress was not in her plans. "I wanted to be prime minister of New Zealand," she says. "Or, failing that, a lawyer." 

Though mostly educated Down Under, Anna who was a keen musician, playing the viola, cello, and piano completed her high-school education in Los Angeles, where she moved with her mother, brother and sister after their parents divorced. 

Anna Paquin's breakout role in The Piano

A part in a TV commercial led to her auditioning for the role of Holly Hunter's daughter in The Piano in 1993, a role which, to her amazement, she secured despite competing against 5,000 applicants. 

An even bigger surprise came when she learned her performance has been recognised with a best supporting actress Academy Award. "I was in a state of shock," she admits. "I thought I was going to sit in the audience clapping with everyone else while some other actor went up to get the award. Instead, I was the one going up there, in front of hundreds of people." In the wake of her Oscar win high-profile movie offers came in thick and fast. 

Anna Paquin's role in True Blood and subsequent success

Anna became best-known for her role as Sookie Stackhouse in HBO vampire drama True Blood based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries b

Anna Paquin, a versatile performer, was born in 1982. She moved with her family to New Zealand when she was a child, where she landed her first film role at the age of 9. Her work in "The Piano" earned her an Academy Award. More movies followed, including "Fly Away Home," "X-Men" and "Margaret." Paquin also stars in the hit television drama "True Blood."

Beating out hundreds of other young girls, Paquin won the part of Flora McGrath in "The Piano." She earned strong reviews for her work on the historical drama. In the film, she played the daughter of a mute woman (Holly Hunter). The pair travel to New Zealand so that Hunter's character can marry a wealthy man (Sam Neill), but she falls for one of his workers (Harvey Keitel). Paquin won an Academy Award for the film at the tender age of 11.

After her Oscar-winning turn in "The Piano," Paquin stepped away from acting for a time. She chose to focus on her own life, instead of her career. After declining numerous roles, Paquin returned to film in 1996, first playing a young version of the title character in the Charlotte Brontë classic, "Jane Eyre." That same year, she starred in the film "Fly Away Home," playing a girl who adopts a flock of orphaned birds.

Paquin enjoyed big box-office success playing a comic book character in 2000's "X-Men" with Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry and Patrick Stewart. She portrayed Rogue, a young girl with a deadly power, who teams up with other so-called mutants to fight the evil Magneto (Ian McKellen). Paquin reprised her role in the sequels.

In 2007, Paquin scored her first Emmy Award nomination for her work on "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee." She played a schoolteacher who worked with a Sioux doctor to help Native Americans on a reservation in the late 1800s. Moving to more modern and fantastical material, Paquin fought to be cast as Sookie Stackhouse in the supernatural drama "True Blood." Paquin picked a Golden Globe Award in 2009 for her work on the show.