AKA Anna Helene Paquin

Born: 24-Jul-1982
Birthplace: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor

Nationality: New Zealand
Executive summary: The Piano and X-Men

Anna Paquin was born in Winnipeg, Canada, but her family moved to New Zealand when she was 4. She was 9 when she played mute Holly Hunter's daughter (and furiously articulate voice) in the overwrought sexual-angst-cum-metaphoric-frenzy The Piano, winning an Oscar. After The Piano, Paquin grew up in a long succession of films. In Fly Away Home, Paquin played foster mom to some Canadian goslings. In HurlyBurly, she played a homeless teen, trading sex for shelter. In A Walk on the Moon, she played Diane Lane and Liev Schreiber's hippie daughter, swept away by Woodstock. In Buffalo Soldiers she bedded Joaquin Phoenix. In her most famous role, she played the mutant Rogue in the X-Men movies.

Father: Brian Paquin (phys-ed teacher, b. 1952)
Mother: Mary Paquin (English teacher, sep. 1995)
Brother: Andrew Paquin (b. 1977, film producer)
Sister: Katya Paquin (b. 1980, Executive Assistant to New Zealand MP Jeanette Fitzsimons)

    High School: Windward School, West Los Angeles, CA (2000)
    University: Columbia University (attending)

    Oscar for Best Supporting Actress 1994 for The Piano
    Risk Factors: Vegetarian

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (27-May-2007)
    X-Men: The Last Stand (22-May-2006)
    The Squid and the Whale (2005)
    X2 (24-Apr-2003)
    25th Hour (16-Dec-2002)
    Darkness (03-Oct-2002)
    Buffalo Soldiers (8-Sep-2001)
    Finding Forrester (19-Dec-2000)
    Almost Famous (15-Sep-2000)
    X-Men (13-Jul-2000)
    All the Rage (11-Sep-1999)
    A Walk on the Moon (29-Jan-1999)
    She's All That (29-Jan-1999)
    Hurlyburly (11-Sep-1998)
    Amistad (4-Dec-1997)
    The Member of the Wedding (29-Jan-1997)
    Fly Away Home (5-Sep-1996)
    Jane Eyre (9-Feb-1996)
    The Piano (19-May-1993)

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