It was unclear which fact was more extraordinary about Anna Paquin – that she won an Academy Award at age... (Learn more)
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"I asked her to say goodbye to a hotel room she'd stayed in for a few days, where stuff had happened, and I must have watched that tape a thousand times. It was so great." - Cameron Crowe on why he hired Paquin to co-star in his untitled 2000 project, quoted in The Observer, March 5, 2000
"I don't do parts where I can't find something that I understand about the character. I want to make the character realistic enough that the audience will be able to relate to her. I try to be that character. I will try to react like that character." - Paquin in Cinefantastique, August 2000
"I had no idea what the Oscars were, and I wasn't expecting to have to do anything. I didn't want to go up and talk with all these people staring at me, waiting for me to say something. Those types of things aren't too fun when you're little." - Paquin to Detour, April 1999
"I was the right height." - Anna Paquin to London's Daily Telegraph about why she beat out 5,000 girls for the role of Flora in "The Piano", Nov. 27, 1999
As of Spring 2000, Paquin was planning to follow Claire Danes and Natalie Portman into Ivy League education, scaling down her acting work to concentrate on psychology.
She is a vegetarian and very interested in photography.
She was born in Winnipeg, Canada, lived there until she was four and then moved to her mother's native New Zealand. In 2000, she moved to Los Angeles.
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