AKA Anna Helene Paquin

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

Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Bisexual [1]
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 roles, she played the mutant Rogue in the X-Men movies, and the telepathic Sookie Stackhouse on HBO's True Blood.

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)
Husband: Stephen Moyer (actor, m. 21-Aug-2010)

    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

    TELEVISION
    True Blood Sookie Stackhouse (2008-)

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    Tell It to the Bees (9-Sep-2018)
    Alias Grace (12-Sep-2017)
    The Good Dinosaur (10-Nov-2015) [VOICE]
    X-Men: Days of Future Past (10-May-2014)
    Straight A's (16-Jan-2013)
    Margaret (30-Sep-2011) · Lisa Cohen
    Scream 4 (13-Apr-2011) · Rachel
    Open House (24-Apr-2010)
    The Romantics (24-Jan-2010) · Lila
    The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (19-Apr-2009)
    Trick 'r Treat (9-Dec-2007) · Laurie
    Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (27-May-2007)
    Blue State (27-Apr-2007)
    X-Men: The Last Stand (22-May-2006)
    The Squid and the Whale (2005)
    X2 (24-Apr-2003) · Marie -- Rogue
    25th Hour (16-Dec-2002)
    Darkness (3-Oct-2002)
    Buffalo Soldiers (8-Sep-2001) · Robyn Lee
    Finding Forrester (19-Dec-2000) · Claire
    Almost Famous (15-Sep-2000) · Polexia Aphrodisia
    X-Men (13-Jul-2000) · Rogue
    All the Rage (11-Sep-1999)
    A Walk on the Moon (29-Jan-1999) · Alison Kantrowitz
    She's All That (29-Jan-1999)
    Hurlyburly (11-Sep-1998)
    Amistad (4-Dec-1997) · Queen Isabella
    The Member of the Wedding (29-Jan-1997) · Frankie Addams
    Fly Away Home (5-Sep-1996) · Amy Alden
    Jane Eyre (9-Feb-1996) · Young Jane
    The Piano (19-May-1993) · Flora

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