Anna Paquin

Academy Award-winning actress Anna Paquin most recently appeared on stage in Neil Labute's The Distance From Here which received the Drama Desk Award for Best Cast Ensemble. Prior to that, she starred off-Broadway in the limited run of Paul Weitz's Ensemble Studio Theater's Roulette. She received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Best Lead Actress for her stage debut in director Phillip Seymour Hoffman's The Glory of Living and went on to appear in Kenneth Lonergan's West End production of This is Our Youth opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and Hayden Christensen.

Paquin's extensive body of film work includes the Bryan Singer blockbusters X-Men and X-Men 2, Spike Lee's acclaimed The 25th Hour, Buffalo Soldiers, Gus Van Sant's Finding Forrester, Cameron Crowe's Academy Award-winning Almost Famous, Hurlyburly, Robert Iscove's She's All That, Tony Goldwyn's A Walk on the Moon, Steven Spielberg's Amistad, Carroll Ballard's Fly Away Home and Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre.

She stunned the world in 1993 with her film debut as the daughter of the bride in an arranged marriage in Jane Campion's The Piano. Her performance opposite Academy Award-winner Holly Hunter led to her winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at the age of 11.

Paquin was born in Canada and raised in New Zealand. She will next be seen in Noah Baumbach's The Squid and the Whale, which was recently selected for competition in the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.

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Anna Paquin Facts

Birth Name	Anna Helene Paquin
Occupation	Actress
Birthday	July 24, 1982 (26)
Sign	Leo
Birthplace	Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Height	5' 5" (1m65)
Awards	1994 Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress (for The Piano)

Selected Filmography

True Blood (2008)

as Sookie Stackhouse

Blue State (2007) as Chloe

X-Men 3 (2006) as Rogue

Steamboy (2005) as James Ray Steam (voice)

X2 (2003) as Rogue

Darkness (2002)

as Regina (breakthrough)

The 25th Hour (2002) as Mary D'Annunzio

Almost Famous (2000) as Polexia Aphrodisia

Finding Forrester (2000) as Claire Spence

X-Men (2000) as Rogue

A Walk on the Moon (1999) as Alison

She's All That (1999) as Mackenzie

Amistad (1997) as Queen Isabella

Fly Away Home (1996) as Amy Alden

The Piano (1993) as Flora McGrath

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