Anna Helene Paquin Research Paper

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Anna Helene Paquin was born in Manitoba and raised in Wellington, New Zealand on July 24, 1982, to an English teacher, Mary Paquin, and Brain Paquin, l Physical Education teacher of a high school from Canada. She has two older siblings, Andrew who is a director and Katya. Anna loved to play the viola, cello, and piano when she was young. She also participated in ballet, swimming, gymnastics and downhill skiing. Anna went to Hutt International School and the Wellington Girl’s College in New Zealand before migrating to Los Angeles during her teenage, and she studied at Windward School. She completed a year at Columbia University and left that too to start a career in acting. In spite of having less to no experience in acting, she beat 5000 candidates and got the role of Flora McGrath in the romantic drama The Piano directed by Jane Campion. At such a young age of 11, she triumphed the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and became the second-youngest Academy Award winner in the history of Oscar. She won various nominations for the young artist awards for her role in Flying Away Home in 1996, The Member of the Wedding in 1997 and A Walk on the Moon in 1999 which lead a way for her to become a …show more content…
She played a lead role in True Blood (2008-14) which was the HBO vampire drama television series of Sookie Stackhouse. For her performance in the same, she conquered the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance in 2009. Her hard work paid off when she got nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards, Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for a long haul in the film Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007) and Golden Globe Award for The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009).
She got a chance to try a different genre and worked in a horror film Trick’r Treat as Laurie which released in

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