Background
Paquin was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Paquin’s first successful film was The Piano, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1994 at the age of 11 — the second youngest winner in history
Paquin was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
It was unclear which fact was more extraordinary about Anna Paquin – that she won an Academy Award at age 11 for her performance in “The Piano” , or after her win, that she had no plans to continue acting. Moviegoers were thankful for her change of heart, as the Canadian actress continued to give thoughtful, complex, and occasionally seductive turns as an adult in a wide variety of projects ranging from big-budget blockbusters like the “X-Men” franchise to independent fare like Noah Bambauch’s “The Squid and the Whale” But it was her foray onto the small screen that allowed for her most compelling performances, particularly as a 19th-century schoolteacher who campaigns for Native American rights in the Emmy-winning miniseries, “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” , for which she received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. Paquin also shined in her first television role, playing barmaid and telepath Sookie Stackhouse on Alan Ball’s claimed “True Blood”, which only added to an already impressive career for the young actress.
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. They married on 21 August 2010 at a private residence in Malibu, California. Paquin and Moyer have a son, Charlie, and a daughter, Poppy, who are fraternal twins born in September 2012.