Anna Helene Paquin is a Canadian-born New Zealand actress. Born in Manitoba and brought up in Wellington, New Zealand, Paquin studied at Hutt Intermediate School and Wellington Girls' College in New Zealand before moving to Los Angeles during her youth where she studied at Windward School and went on to complete a year at Columbia University before leaving post-secondary to focus on her acting career. As a child, she beat 5000 candidates for the role of Flora McGrath in Jane Campion's romantic drama film The Piano (1993), despite having had little to no acting experience prior to getting the role. For her performance, she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at the age of 11, making her the second-youngest Academy Award winner in Oscar history. Paquin went on to become a successful child actress, receiving 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 was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for appearing in Cameron Crowe's comedy-drama film Almost Famous (2000). She played mutant superheroine Rogue in multiple films of the X-Men franchise and was nominated for a Saturn Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance in the first installment. Paquin is also known for playing the lead role of Sookie Stackhouse in the HBO vampire drama television series True Blood (2008–2014). For her performance in the series, Paquin won the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama in 2009 and was nominated for an additional Golden Globe Award in 2010, as well as three Saturn Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award in 2010. Among other accolades, Paquin has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her work on the 2007 television film Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and a Golden Globe Award for her work on the 2009 television film The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler. Paquin has been married since 2010 to actor Stephen Moyer, with whom she has two children. Filmography: 1993 The Piano 1996 Jane Eyre 1996 Fly Away Home 1997 Amistad 1998 Hurlyburly 1999 A Walk on the Moon 1999 She's All That 1999 It's the Rage 2000 X-Men 2000 Almost Famous 2000 Finding Forrester 2001 Buffalo Soldiers 2002 Darkness 2002 25th Hour 2003 X2 2003 Laputa: Castle in the Sky 2004 Steamboy 2005 The Squid and the Whale 2006 X-Men: The Last Stand 2007 Blue State 2007 Mosaic 2007 Trick 'r Treat 2010 The Romantics 2010 Open House 2011 Scream 4 2011 Margaret 2011 The Carrier 2013 Straight A's 2013 Free Ride 2014 X-Men: Days of Future Past Television: 1997 The Member of the Wedding 2007 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee 2008–14 True Blood 2009 The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler 2011 Phineas and Ferb 2013 Susanna 2016 Roots 2017 Bellevue 2017 Alias Grace 2017 Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams ________________________________________________________ Production Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound! Sebastian Forslund - Stay With The Enemy (Instrumental Version)
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