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Paquin at 25th Annual Paley Television Festival, April 2009ĭirector Jane Campion was looking for a little girl to play a main role in The Piano, set to film in New Zealand, and a newspaper advertisement was run announcing an open audition. She studied at Columbia College for one year, where she lived in Carman Hall, but dropped out to continue her acting career. at 16, she attended Windward School in Los Angeles, from which she graduated in 2000. She received her secondary education at Wellington Girls' College. While in New Zealand, Paquin attended Raphael House Rudolf Steiner School and Hutt Intermediate School, both in Lower Hutt. The family moved to Wellington when she was four. Her father is of Dutch and French descent. All her maternal great-grandparents emigrated from Ireland due to the Great Famine. She is the youngest of three children, with a brother, Andrew, who is a filmmaker, and a sister, Katya. Her mother, Mary ( née Brophy), is a New Zealand English teacher from Wellington and her Canadian father, Brian Paquin, was then a physical education teacher.

She received an additional Golden Globe Award nomination for her work on the television film The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009).Īnna Hélène Paquin was born on 24 July 1982 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Among other accolades, Paquin was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her work on the television film Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007). For her performance in the series, Paquin won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in 2009, and was nominated for an additional Golden Globe Award, as well as three Saturn Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in 2010.

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She played the lead role of Sookie Stackhouse in the HBO vampire drama television series True Blood (2008–2014). Her other film credits include 25th Hour (2002), Trick 'r Treat (2007), Margaret (2011), The Good Dinosaur (2015), and The Irishman (2019). Paquin continued to perform prominent roles into adulthood, portraying mutant superheroine Rogue in the 20th Century Fox X-Men franchise (2000–2014), for which she was nominated for a Saturn Award for her performance in the first installment. She also appeared in the films Jane Eyre (1996) and Amistad (1997). As a child actress, she received multiple Young Artist Award nominations for her roles in Fly Away Home (1996), The Member of the Wedding (1997), and A Walk on the Moon (1999), and a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for appearing in Cameron Crowe's comedy-drama film Almost Famous (2000). Born in Winnipeg and raised in Wellington, Paquin made her acting debut portraying Flora McGrath in the romantic drama film The Piano (1993), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at age 11, making her the second-youngest winner in Oscar history. Anna Hélène Paquin ( / ˈ p æ k w ɪ n/ PAK-win born 24 July 1982) is a Canadian-born New Zealand actress.