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Anna Paquin is the star of several major motion pictures, including her first Oscar winning performance in The Piano (1993), the role of the young Jane in the 1996 film Jane Eyre (1996), and the role of Amy Alden in the charming family film, Fly Away Home (1996). With a well-developed vocabulary and gentle sense of humor, Paquin proves herself to be the most enchanting young talent working today.

Paquins rising stardom has often been a cause of charming media shyness, where it is obvious that she is an ordinary girl who happens to posses an extraordinary talent. She has two agents, Gail Cowan in New Zealand, and the William Morris agency in Los Angeles, but neither these nor her parents have much influence in deciding what she films. “In the end”, she says, “it’s my decision”. Paquin’s parents separated while she was filming Fly Away Home (1996) in Canada. On Oscar night in 1993, Anna Paquin was the surprise (and surprised) winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. she stood, wide-eyed and gulping for breath at the microphone for a full twenty-something-odd seconds before delivering a gracious, though rather breathless thank-you speech

Anna Paquin to ’True Blood" on HBO.

FATAL ATTRACTION? Anna Paquin plays a mind-reading waitress who falls for a vampire on “True Blood.” The actress plays a mind-reading waitress who falls for a mysterious vampire on the new drama.

Anna Paquin Drinks Blood

Anna Paquin drinks blood, diet blood. just one day after wrapping her new vampire romance, True Blood, Paquin has come back into the light after months in the dark and has tales to tell. “There’s congealing blood, eye blood, dark blood, drinking blood. There’s a hundred kinds of blood,” she explains. Drinking blood? “The drinking blood is very corn syrupy,” She says, laughing. “They asked if I wanted sugar-free blood, and I said, Sure. But at six in the morning when it is freezing cold, you are covered in goo, and you are sucking on a prosthetic arm, you think, Maybe I should have said yes to the watermelon-flavored blood.

Anna Paquin has found that WHEN IT comes to on-screen romances, true love hurts. It can even be deadly.

In the “X-Men” franchise, Paquin played Rogue, a mutant superhero who absorbed the life force of anyone she touched — a condition that made just holding hands a lethal proposition. And now in HBO’s new drama " True Blood,” which premieres Sunday, the 26-year-old actress stars as the plucky, upbeat Sookie Stackhouse, a virginal waitress who has a potentially fatal attraction to a mysterious, brooding vampire (Stephen Moyer).

It’s not that Paquin, who at 11 surprised Hollywood by winning a supporting actress Oscar for the “The Piano,” has an appetite for playing heroines with troubled love lives. It’s simply that her new role fits with her desire for complex dramatic characters that swim outside the mainstream.

Anna Paquin Personal and Career Biography

Anna Helene Paquin was born July 24, 1982 in Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada, to parents Brian and Mary. She has an older brother and an older sister.
Anna’s family moved to New Zealand when She was only four years old, and that is where she was discovered years later by director Jane Campion, who was casting her film The Piano. Anna beat out 5,000 other young actresses for the part, and Campion’s choice would serve her well. Paquin would win the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her portrayal of Flora.

Anna would take three years off before her next big screen performance, as a young Jane Eyre in Franco Zeffirelli’s Jane Eyre. Then Anna would star in the children’s hit Fly Away Home, the slave epic Amistad and the teen hit She’s All That among others before taking the role that would help her gain notice among a wider audience: Rogue in the 2000 summer blockbuster The X-Men.