Anna Paquin Biography

Anna Paquin is a New Zealand-Canadian actress known for having featured in a romantic drama film “The Piano” as Flora McGrath (she had a little acting experience). She earned the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, making her the second-youngest winner in Oscar history.

Anna Paquin Age

Paquin, was born on July 24, 1982 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Anna Paquin Career

Paquin followed her older sister to ‘The Piano’ for auditions, and on getting there Director Jane Campion was so impressed with Anna (was 9 years by then) that she was immediately chosen from among the 5000 other candidates.

The movie won several awards and after some time it became so popular among many movie lovers. For her excellent portrayal of the character Flora, Paquin won an Oscar and became the second-youngest Oscar winner, after Tatum O’Neal.

She had no intentions to continue acting but she dabbled some movies and eventually after a year at Columbia University, she dived headfirst into the acting all-over again.

She acted mutant superheroine Rogue in multiple films of the X-Men franchise and was nominated for a Saturn Award for her performance in the first installment. from 2008 to 2014, She played as Sookie Stackhouse in the HBO vampire drama television series True Blood.

In 2009, she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama and was nominated for an additional Golden Globe Award and three Saturn Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award in 2010.

Anna Paquin Net Worth

Paquin has an estimated net worth of $14 million dollars.

Anna Paquin Family

Paquin was born to Mary Paquin (native-Wellington, New Zealand) whose worked as an English teacher, heading and father Brian Paquin (Canadian) who worked as a high school Physical Education teacher from Canada. She was aised up along with her two siblings, namely; Andrew Andrew (born 1977), a director, and Katya (born 1980), whose husband is the Green Party of New Zealand’s former co-leader Russel Norman.

At the age of four her family relocated to Newzealand, where she played musical instruments; viola, cello, and piano, and took part in gymnastics, ballet, swimming, and downhill skiing. NB: she did not have any hobbies related to acting.

Anna Paquin Education

Paquin joined Raphael House Rudolf Steiner School in Lower Hutt until she was 9 years old, then jined Hutt Intermediate School and studied from 1994 to 1995. In 1995 when her parents broke up and she relocated to the U.S. with her mother.

She joined Wellington at Wellington Girls’ College, completed her high school diploma at Windward School in Los Angeles, and later graduated from Windward School in June 2000. She then studied at Columbia University for one year but has since then been on a leave of absence to continue her acting career.

Anna Paquin And Husband

Paquin dated Stephen Moyer as of filming the series pilot in 2007. Stephen acted ‘True Blood’ and in August 5th 2009, it turned out that he became her ‘true co-star’. They married on 21 August 2010 at a private residence in Malibu, California. The pair were blessed with fraternal twins named Charlie and Poppy, born in September 2012. The pair have a stepson and a stepdaughter named Billy (born in 2000), and Lilac (born in 2002).

Anna Paquin Bisexual

‘I still like women’: Pregnant Anna Paquin on why she will always be bisexual… despite being married to Stephen Moyer
she came out as a bisexual woman in a public service announcement back in 2010.

And despite being happily married to True Blood actor Stephen Moyer and pregnant with her first child; Anna Paquin is now speaking out again about her sexuality and gay rights.

‘I’m sure for some people saying they’re bisexual feels less scary than making a statement that they’re gay,’ she tells Zooey magazine in a new interview.

‘For me, it’s not really an issue because I’m someone who believes being bisexual is actually a thing. It’s not made up. It’s not a lack of decision. It’s not being greedy or numerous other ignorant things I’ve heard at this point.

‘For a bisexual, it’s not about gender. That’s not the deciding factor for who they’re attracted to,’ she tells the U.S. publication.

The 29-year-old actress, who showed off a blossoming baby bump at last weekend’s White House Correspondent’s Dinner, also discusses plastic surgery, saying it is not something she would choose to do.

Interestingly enough, I don’t really care about my teeth, but I think any woman on this planet could say, “I wish my ass was smaller, my arms were thinner and I had green eyes not brown,”‘ she says.

‘I think anyone is as critical as they have the energy to self-obsess, but I also know as an actress you are more limited if you interfere with your looks.

‘If you have a whole bunch of work done with your teeth and your face and your boobs then you’re only going to play modern people. That’s a big choice to make. Very limiting.’

Anna will reprise her role as Sookie Stackhouse in True Blood which airs on U.S. network HBO on June 10.

Source: dailymail.co.uk