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Anna Paquin’s Milestones
First acting experience as a skunk in a school ballet
1992 Beat out 5,000 girls for the part of Holly Hunter's daughter in Jane Campion's period love story "The Piano"
1993 Became the second youngest Oscar winner of all time (to date) when she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her big-screen debut in "The Piano"
1994 Starred in a series of commercials for MCI
1996 Played foster mother to a flock of geese in the family film "Fly Away Home"
1997 Made cameo appearance as the Queen of Spain in the Steven Spielberg directed "Amistad"
1997 US TV acting debut, played Frankie in the USA Network remake of "The Member of the Wedding"
1998 Co-starred with Kevin Spacey and Sean Penn as a teen vamp in "Hurlyburly"
1999 Appeared as a rebellious hippie chick in the 1960s drama "A Walk on the Moon"
1999 Played Freddie Prinze Jr's younger sister in the frothy teen comedy "She's All That"
2000 Appeared in "Finding Forrester" opposite F Murray Abraham and Sean Connery
2000 Played Polexia Aphrodesia, a soulful groupie in Cameron Crowe's "Almost Famous"
2000 Portrayed Rogue, a genetic mutant who can suck the life from any being, in the big screen version of the Marvel Comic adventure "X-Men"
2001 Made NYC stage debut in "The Glory of Living," directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman
2002 Cast in Spike Lee's drama feature "The 25th Hour"
2002 London stage debut in "This Is Our Youth"
2003 Cast as the sergeant's daughter in "Buffalo Soldiers"
2003 Reprised role of Rogue in "X-Men 2"
2005 Cast as a flirtatious female student in Noah Baumbach's "The Squid and the Whale" opposite Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney
2006 Reprised the role of Rogue in the third installment of the "X-Men" series, "X-Men: The Last Stand"
2007 Played an Army deserter in "Blue State," a romantic comedy, she co-produced with her brother, Andrew Paquin
2007 Portrayed schoolteacher Elaine Goodale in the HBO Films original movie, "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee"; earned Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG nominations for Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie
2008 Cast as Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress, who falls in love with a vampire in the HBO series "True Blood"

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Quick Facts

Also known as

Birth Name : Anna Helene Paquin

Born

July, 24 1982 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Education

  • Columbia University, New York, NY:
  • Hutt Intermediate School, Lower Hutt, New Zealand:
  • Windward School, Los Angeles, CA: Graduated

Professions

actor