THE PIANO

(Love/Drama - R)

Anna Paquin won her Supporting Oscar for playing Holly Hunter's daughter.

Anna Paquin (1982- )

Anna Paquin is a Canadian born actress, who burst onto the scene as the perfidious daughter of a mail order bride, [played by Holly Hunter], in the 1850's New Zealand, in Jane Campion's THE PIANO.  The eleven year old actress won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. 

Anna Paquin went on to play other child roles, as the young orphan Jane in the 1996 Franco Zeffirelli movie adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's JANE EYRE, the story of a girl who grew up in a brutal boarding school and, as an adult, takes a job as a governess on a remote estate in England. Jane falls in love with her employer only to find he is a man hiding a dark secret.   

In 1996, she played a daughter, who along with her dad, played by Jeff Daniels, raise and release a flock of wild geese in FLY AWAY HOME.

As an adult, she played a genetic mutant in the action/adventure/Sci-Fi movie, X-MEN, in 2000.   In 2008, she starred in the television series, TRUE BLOOD, as Sookie Stackhouse, a mind reading, ripe, small-town Louisiana waitress, who falls for a vampire.

Paquin's other films include:

THE PIANO [1993]
FLY AWAY HOME
THE SQUID AND THE WHALE
JANE EYRE
AMISTAD
HURLYBURLY
A WALK ON THE MOON
SHE'S ALL THAT
ALL THE RAGE
SLEEPLESS BEAUTY
X-MEN
ALMOST FAMOUS
FINDING FORRESTER
BUFFALO SOLDIERS
THE 25TH HOUR
DARKNESS
X2
X-MEN: THE LAST STAND
MOSAIC
BLUE STATE
TRICK 'R TREAT
OPEN HOUSE
THE ROMANTICS
OPEN HOUSE (2010)

Anna Paquin's television credits include:

THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING

Anna Paquin in X2

Anna Paquin in DARKNESS (2003)

Anna Paquin in X-MEN (2000)

Anna Paquin with Holly Hunter in THE PIANO

Paquin with Jeff Daniels in THE SQUID AND THE WHALE (2005)

Anna Paquin in X-MEN: THE LAST STAND (2006)