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]. The Story takes place 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 is of of a girl who grew up in a brutal boarding school. The character 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 (1996)
THE SQUID AND THE WHALE (2005)
JANE EYRE (1996)
AMISTAD (1997)
HURLYBURLY (1998)
A WALK ON THE MOON (1999)
SHE'S ALL THAT (1999)
ALL THE RAGE (1999)
SLEEPLESS BEAUTY (
X-MEN (2000)
ALMOST FAMOUS (2000)
FINDING FORRESTER (2000)
BUFFALO SOLDIERS (2001)
THE 25TH HOUR (2002)
DARKNESS (2002)
X2 (2003)
X-MEN: THE LAST STAND (2000)
MOSAIC (2007)
BLUE STATE (2007)
TRICK 'R TREAT (2007)
OPEN HOUSE (2010)
THE ROMANTICS
(2010)
OPEN HOUSE (2010)
Anna Paquin's television credits include:
THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING (1997)
THE COURAGEOUS HEART OF IRENA SENDLER (TV MOVIE) (2009)
 
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)
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