Anna Paquin

Anna Hélène Paquin (/ˈpækwɪn/ PAK-win; born 24 July 1982) is a New Zealand-Canadian actress.[1][2][3][4] She was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and brought up in Wellington, New Zealand, before moving to Los Angeles, California, US, during her youth. She completed a year at Columbia University, before leaving to focus on her acting career. As a child, she played the role of Flora McGrath in Jane Campion's romantic drama film The Piano (1993), despite having had little acting experience. For her performance, she garnered critical acclaim and received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at the age of 11, making her the second-youngest winner in Oscar history, after Tatum O'Neal.[5][6]

Anna Paquin
Born
Anna Hélène Paquin

(1982-07-24) 24 July 1982
Citizenship
  • New Zealand
  • Canada
EducationColumbia University
OccupationActress
Years active1993–present
Spouse(s)
(m. 2010)
Children2

Paquin was a successful child actress, receiving multiple Young Artist Award nominations for her roles in Fly Away Home (1996), The Member of the Wedding (1997), and A Walk on the Moon (1999), and was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for appearing in Cameron Crowe's comedy-drama film Almost Famous (2000). She has continued to perform prominent roles into adulthood, having played mutant superheroine Rogue in multiple films of the X-Men franchise (2000–2014) and was nominated for a Saturn Award for her performance in the first installment. Her other film credits include Jane Eyre (1996), Amistad (1997), 25th Hour (2002), Trick 'r Treat (2007), Margaret (2011), The Good Dinosaur (2015), and The Irishman (2019).

Paquin played the lead role of Sookie Stackhouse in the HBO vampire drama television series True Blood (2008–2014). For her performance in the series, Paquin won the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama in 2009,[7] and was nominated for an additional Golden Globe Award in 2010,[7] as well as three Saturn Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award in 2010. Among other accolades, Paquin has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her work on the 2007 television film Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and a Golden Globe Award for her work on the 2009 television film The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler.

Early life

Paquin was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, the daughter of Mary Paquin (née Brophy), an English teacher and native of Wellington, New Zealand, and Brian Paquin, a high school Physical Education teacher from Canada. Paquin has two older siblings: Andrew (born 1977), a director, and Katya (born 1980),[8] whose partner is the Green Party of New Zealand's former co-leader Russel Norman.[9] Paquin is of Dutch, French and Irish descent.[10] Paquin's family moved to New Zealand when she was four. Her musical childhood hobbies in New Zealand included playing the viola, cello and piano. She also participated in gymnastics, ballet, swimming and downhill skiing, though she did not have any hobbies related to acting.[11][12]

While in New Zealand, Paquin attended Raphael House Rudolf Steiner School in Lower Hutt until she was 9 years old,[13] then Hutt Intermediate School (1994–95). Having begun her secondary education in Wellington at Wellington Girls' College, she completed her high school diploma at Windward School in Los Angeles, after moving to the U.S. with her mother following her parents' divorce (1995).[14] She graduated from Windward School in June 2000 and completed the school's Community Service requirement by working in a soup kitchen and at a Special Education Centre. She studied at Columbia University for one year but dropped out to continue her acting career.[15]

Career

Child acting

Paquin at 25th Annual Paley Television Festival, April 2009

Director Jane Campion was looking for a little girl to play a main role in The Piano, set to film in New Zealand, and a newspaper advertisement was run announcing an open audition. Paquin's sister read the ad and went to try out with a friend; this inspired Paquin to audition. When Campion met Paquin—whose only acting experience had been as a skunk in a school play—she was very impressed with the nine-year-old's performance of the monologue about Flora's father, and she was chosen from among the 5000 candidates.[12] When The Piano was released in 1993 it was lauded by critics, won prizes at a number of film festivals, and eventually became a popular film among a wide audience. Paquin's debut performance in the film earned her the 1993 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at the age of 11, making her the second-youngest Oscar winner in history, behind Tatum O'Neal.[12]

The Piano was made as a small independent film and wasn't expected to be widely known, and Paquin and her family did not plan to continue to pursue acting.[11] However, she was invited to the William Morris Agency, and she kept receiving offers for new roles. She systematically rejected them, but she did appear in three commercials for the phone company MCI in 1994.[16] She later made a series of television commercials for Manitoba Telecom Systems in her birth city of Winnipeg.[17] She also appeared as a voice in an audiobook entitled The Magnificent Nose in 1994.

In 1996, she appeared in two films. The first role was as young Jane in Jane Eyre. The other was a lead part in Fly Away Home playing a young girl who, after her mother dies, moves in with her father and finds solace in taking care of orphaned goslings.[18] As a teenager, she had roles in films, including A Walk on the Moon, Amistad, Hurlyburly, She's All That and Almost Famous as well as the English dub of Castle in the Sky.

Adult stardom and current work

Paquin at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con with fellow True Blood actors Ryan Kwanten, Deborah Ann Woll, Nelsan Ellis, Rutina Wesley, and Stephen Moyer

Paquin played the mutant superhero Rogue in the Marvel Comics movie X-Men in 2000,[5] its sequel X2 in 2003, and its third installment, X-Men: The Last Stand, in 2006. Between 2006 and 2007, she starred in, as well as executive-produced Blue State. The film is made by Paquin Films, a production company formed by her and her brother, Andrew Paquin.[19] In November 2006, she completed the film Margaret, which was released in 2011. She played Elaine Goodale in HBO's made-for-TV film Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, based on Dee Brown's best-seller. In 2007, she played the role of Laurie in the horror film Trick 'r Treat, which was released in 2009. Paquin was cast as waitress Sookie Stackhouse in the HBO series True Blood in 2008, her first role in a TV series. The show is based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels by Charlaine Harris, set in the fictional town of Bon Temps, Louisiana; which saw Paquin doing nude scenes for the first time. While working on True Blood, she started dating co-star Stephen Moyer and later married him in 2010.

In 2009, Paquin played Irena Sendler, a Polish woman hailed as a heroine of the Holocaust, in The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler, a CBS TV film biographical film based on the book Mother of the Children of the Holocaust: The Irena Sendler Story, by Anna Mieszkowska. The film was made in Latvia, and was a Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation for the network.[20] In 2010, Paquin's film The Romantics, a romantic comedy with Josh Duhamel and Katie Holmes, was released in the US at selected cinemas in September. She played a cameo role in Scream 4, alongside Kristen Bell in 2011.[21] She also played the voice of Kristin on an episode of Phineas and Ferb.

Paquin reprised her role as Rogue in the 2014 film X-Men: Days of Future Past, but most of her scenes were cut out for the theatrical release.[22][23] An alternative version of the film with all of Paquin's scenes reinstated was released as The Rogue Cut on 14 July 2015.[24] Paquin voiced Ramsey in Disney•Pixar's film The Good Dinosaur.[25] She also played Nancy Holt, the wife of a Confederate soldier, in the 2016 miniseries Roots.[26] In June 2016, the Human Rights Campaign released a video in tribute to the victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting; in the video, Paquin and others told the stories of the people killed there.[27][28] Paquin starred in the Canadian crime drama Bellevue which airs on CBC Television and can next be seen in husband Stephen Moyer's directorial debut, The Parting Glass.[29]

Personal life

Paquin with husband and True Blood costar Stephen Moyer, 2009

On 5 August 2009, Paquin announced her engagement to her True Blood co-star Stephen Moyer, whom she had been dating since filming the series pilot in 2007.[30][31] They married on 21 August 2010 at a private residence in Malibu, California.[32] Paquin gave birth to fraternal twins in September 2012,[33][34][35] and through her marriage to Moyer, she also has a step-son, Billy, born in 2000, and a step-daughter, born in 2002.[36] The family resides in Venice, Los Angeles, California.[37]

Philanthropy and advocacy

On 1 April 2010, Paquin came out as bisexual in a public service announcement for the Give a Damn campaign as part of the True Colors Fund, an advocacy group organised by Cyndi Lauper dedicated to LGBT equality.[38] The True Colors Fund was created to "inspire and engage everyone, especially straight people, to become active participants in the advancement of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender equality".[39] The video features Anna Paquin stating, "I'm Anna Paquin. I'm bisexual, and I give a damn."[40] When asked about her participation in the video, Paquin responded by saying, "It wasn't like it was a big secret, it was just a cause I cared about and privately supported, but not one that I had ever had an opportunity to speak out about in a way that would be useful. Obviously I know that one person's voice doesn't necessarily do that much, but I just wanted to do my bit."[41] In May 2012, in an Us Weekly interview Paquin rejected the notion that bisexuality is a choice. "My sexuality is not made up, for a bisexual, it's not about gender. That's not the deciding factor to who they're attracted to," stated Paquin.[42] In 2014, she described herself on Twitter as "Proud to be a happily married bisexual mother".[43]

Paquin also supports other charities and foundations such as the Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Make-A-Wish Foundation, Elton John AIDS Foundation, and The Art of Elysium.[44]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1993 The Piano Flora McGrath
1996 Jane Eyre Young Jane Eyre
1996 Fly Away Home Amy Alden
1997 Amistad Queen Isabella II of Spain
1998 Hurlyburly Donna
1998 Laputa: Castle in the Sky Sheeta (voice) English dub
1999 A Walk on the Moon Alison Kantrowitz
1999 She's All That Mackenzie Siler
1999 It's the Rage Annabel Lee
2000 X-Men Marie / Rogue
2000 Almost Famous Polexia Aphrodisia
2000 Finding Forrester Claire Spence
2001 Buffalo Soldiers Robyn Lee
2002 Darkness Regina
2002 25th Hour Mary D'Annunzio
2003 X2 Marie / Rogue
2005 Steamboy James Ray Steam (voice) English dub
2005 The Squid and the Whale Lili
2006 X-Men: The Last Stand Marie / Rogue
2007 Blue State Chloe Hamon Also executive producer
2007 Mosaic Maggie (voice)
2007 Trick 'r Treat Laurie
2010 The Romantics Lila Hayes
2010 Open House Jennie
2011 Scream 4 Rachel Cameo
2011 Margaret Lisa Cohen
2011 The Carrier Kim Short film
2013 Straight A's Katherine
2013 Free Ride Christina Also producer
2014 X-Men: Days of Future Past Marie / Rogue Cameo; expanded role in The Rogue Cut
2015 The Good Dinosaur Ramsey (voice)
2018 Furlough[45][46] Lily Benson
2018 The Parting Glass Colleen Also producer
2018 Tell It to the Bees Dr. Jean Markham
2019 The Irishman Peggy Sheeran
2021 American Underdog: The Kurt Warner Story Brenda Warner Filming
Key
Denotes films that have not yet been released

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1997 The Member of the Wedding Frankie Adams Television film
2007 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Elaine Goodale Television film
2008–2014 True Blood Sookie Stackhouse 80 episodes
2009 The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler Irena Sendler Television film
2011 Phineas and Ferb Kristen (voice) Episode: "The Curse of Candace"
2013 Susanna Katie 6 episodes
2016 Roots Nancy Holt Episode: "Part 4"
2017 Bellevue Annie Ryder 8 episodes; also executive producer
2017 Alias Grace Nancy Montgomery 5 episodes
2017 Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams Sarah Episode: "Real Life"
2019–present Flack[47][48] Robyn 12 episodes; also executive producer
2019 The Affair Joanie Lockhart 8 episodes

Theatre

Year Title Role Venue
2001 The Glory of Living Lisa MCC Theater
2002 This is Our Youth Jessica Goldman Garrick Theatre
2003 Manuscript Elizabeth Hawkins Falmouth Academy
2003 Drug Buddy Wendy Manhattan Theatre Club
2004 Roulette Jenny Ensemble Studio Theatre
2004 The Distance From Here Shari MCC Theater
2004 The 24 Hour Plays, South Of The Border Maylene MCC Theater
2005 After Ashley Julie Bell Vineyard Theatre
2005 Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead Marcy Westside Theatre
2006 The 24 Hour Plays, The Blizzard Jenny MCC Theater

Accolades

Organization Year[lower-alpha 1] Work(s) Category Result
Academy Awards 1994 The Piano Best Supporting Actress Won
Awards Circuit Community Awards 1993 The Piano Best Actress in a Supporting Role Won
2005 The Squid and the Whale Best Cast Ensemble Nominated
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards 2001 X-Men Favorite Actress — Science Fiction Nominated
Chicago Film Critics Association 1994 The Piano Best Supporting Actress Nominated
2011 Margaret Best Actress Nominated
Critics' Choice Awards 1998 Fly Away Home Best Young Actress in a Movie Nominated
2016 Roots Best Supporting Actress in a TV Movie/Miniseries Nominated
2020 The Irishman Best Acting Ensemble Won
Drama Desk Award 2005 The Distance from Here Outstanding Ensemble Won
Film Critics Circle of Australia 1994 The Piano Best Supporting Actor — Female Won
Gold Derby Awards 2006 The Squid and the Whale Best Ensemble Cast Nominated
2010 True Blood Best Drama Actress Nominated
2011 True Blood Best Drama Actress Nominated
2012 True Blood Best Drama Actress Nominated
Golden Globe Awards 1994 The Piano Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Nominated
2008 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film Nominated
2009 True Blood Best Actress – Television Series Drama Won
2010 True Blood Best Actress – Television Series Drama Nominated
2010 The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Nominated
Gotham Awards 2005 The Squid and the Whale Best Ensemble Cast Won
International Cinephile Society 2011 Margaret Best Actress Won
London Film Critics' Circle 2011 Margaret Actress of the Year Won
Los Angeles Film Critics Association 1993 The Piano Best Supporting Actress Won
MTV Movie & TV Awards 2001 X-Men Best On-Screen Duo Nominated
2004 X2 Best Kiss (with Shawn Ashmore) Nominated
National Society of Film Critics 1994 The Piano Best Supporting Actress Nominated
Online Film & Television
Association Awards
1999 Hurlyburly Best Youth Performance Nominated
2007 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture or Miniseries Won
2009 True Blood Best Actress in a Drama Series Nominated
2009 The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler Best Actress in a Motion Picture or Miniseries Nominated
2010 True Blood Best Actress in a Drama Series Nominated
People's Choice Awards 2010 True Blood Favorite TV Drama Actress Nominated
Primetime Emmy Awards 2007 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Nominated
Satellite Awards 2008 True Blood Best Actress – Television Series Drama Won
2009 True Blood Best Cast – Television Series Won
2010 True Blood Best Actress – Television Series Drama Nominated
Saturn Award 2001 X-Men Best Performance by a Younger Actor Nominated
2009 True Blood Best Actress on Television Nominated
2010 True Blood Best Actress on Television Nominated
2011 True Blood Best Actress on Television Nominated
Scream Awards 2009 True Blood Best Horror Actress Won
2010 True Blood Best Horror Actress Won
2011 True Blood Best Horror Actress Nominated
2011 Scream 4 Best Cameo (with Kristen Bell) Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Award 2001 Almost Famous Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated
2008 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries Nominated
2010 True Blood Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Nominated
2020 The Irishman Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated
Teen Choice Award 2003 X2 Choice Movie: Chemistry (with Shawn Ashmore) Nominated
2009 True Blood Choice Summer TV Star: Female Nominated
2010 True Blood Choice TV Actress Fantasy/Sci-Fi Nominated
2010 True Blood Choice Summer TV Star: Female Nominated
2011 True Blood Choice TV Actress Fantasy/Sci-Fi Nominated
2012 True Blood Choice TV Actress Fantasy/Sci-Fi Nominated
Village Voice Film Poll 2011 Margaret Best Actress Won
Women's Image Network Awards 2013 True Blood Actress Drama Series Won
Young Artist Award 1997 Fly Away Home Best Leading Young Actress in a Feature Film Nominated
1998 The Member of the Wedding Best Leading Young Actress in a TV Movie/Pilot/Mini-Series Nominated
2000 A Walk on the Moon Best Supporting Young Actress in a Feature Film Nominated
YoungStar Award 1997 Fly Away Home Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Drama Film Nominated
1999 A Walk on the Moon Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Drama Film Nominated

See also

Notes

  1. Year in which awards ceremony was held.

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