Anna Paquin
Anna Hélène Paquin (born July 24, 1982) is a Canadian-New Zealand actress. Born in Winnipeg and raised in Wellington, Paquin made her acting debut portraying Flora McGrath in the romantic drama film The Piano (1993), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at age 11, making her the second-youngest winner in Oscar history. As a child actress, she received 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 a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for appearing in Cameron Crowe's comedy-drama film Almost Famous (2000). She also appeared in the films Jane Eyre (1996) and Amistad (1997).
Paquin continued to perform prominent roles into adulthood, portraying mutant superheroine Rogue in the 20th Century Fox X-Men franchise (2000–2014), for which she was nominated for a Saturn Award for her performance in the first installment. Her other film credits include 25th Hour (2002), Trick 'r Treat (2007), Margaret (2011), The Good Dinosaur (2015), and The Irishman (2019). She 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 Actress in 2009, and was nominated for an additional Golden Globe Award, as well as three Saturn Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in 2010. Among other accolades, Paquin was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her work on the television film Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007). She received an additional Golden Globe Award nomination for her work on the television film The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009).
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.4 |
Birthday | 1982-07-24 |
Place of Birth | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
Also Known As | Anna Helene Paquin, Άννα Πάκουιν, Анна Пэкуин, |
1993
The Piano
7.381/1427
A mute Scottish woman arrives in colonial New Zealand for an arranged marriage. Her husband refuses to move her beloved piano, giving it to neighbor G...
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The Piano
2000
Finding Forrester
7.112/1031
Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents while living on the streets of the Bronx. He accide...
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Finding Forrester
2000
Almost Famous
7.5/2601
In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone ma...
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Almost Famous
2002
25th Hour
7.329/2260
In New York City in the days following the events of 9/11, Monty Brogan is a convicted drug dealer about to start a seven-year prison sentence, and hi...
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25th Hour
1999
She's All That
6.327/2014
High school hotshot Zach Siler is the envy of his peers. But his popularity declines sharply when his cheerleader girlfriend, Taylor, leaves him for s...
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She's All That
2005
The Squid and the Whale
6.939/910
Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing w...
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The Squid and the Whale
2002
Darkness
5.641/369
A teenage girl moves into a remote country home with her family, only to discover that the gloomy old house has a horrifying past that threatens to de...
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Darkness
1996
Fly Away Home
6.9/440
Amy is only 13 years old when her mother is killed. She goes to Canada to live with her father, an eccentric inventor whom she barely knows. Amy is mi...
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Fly Away Home
2007
Mosaic
5.6/19
A break-in and murder at a New York City museum sparks an investigation by Interpol Agent Nathan Nelson. When he finds an ancient artifact, Nelson tak...
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Mosaic
1999
It's the Rage
5.5/21
A rich cross-section of urban USA find their lives changed when their fates collide at gunpoint. At the centre of it all are Helen and Warren Harding,...
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It's the Rage
2007
Trick 'r Treat
6.98/1765
Four interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: an everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have j...
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Trick 'r Treat
2009
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
7.3/104
Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted w...
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The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
1997
Amistad
7.02/1245
In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are th...
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Amistad
1998
Hurlyburly
5.6/90
Hollywood movers and shakers dissect their own personal lives when everything seems to clash together.
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Hurlyburly
2002
Buffalo Soldiers
6.2/292
A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.
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Buffalo Soldiers
2007
Blue State
5.7/58
A disgruntled Democrat follows through on a drunken campaign promise to move to Canada if George "Dubya" Bush gets re-elected.
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Blue State
2007
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
6.5/106
Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastm...
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
1999
A Walk on the Moon
6/90
The world of a young housewife is turned upside down when she has an affair with a free-spirited blouse salesman.
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A Walk on the Moon
2011
Scream 4
6.464/3531
Sidney Prescott, now the author of a self-help book, returns home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book tour, which brings about the return of Gho...
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Scream 4
2010
The Romantics
4.9/236
Alliances are tested when seven college pals reunite to watch two of their own say “I do” at a seaside wedding. But the maid of honor and the groom sh...
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The Romantics
2000
X-Men
7.003/10947
Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organizat...
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X-Men
2011
Margaret
6.342/281
A young woman witnesses a bus accident, and is caught up in the aftermath, where the question of whether or not it was intentional affects many people...
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Margaret
1996
Jane Eyre
6.9/214
Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls. There she learns to...
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Jane Eyre
2010
Open House
4.9/47
A murderous couple invade a woman's home and hold her captive in the basement.
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Open House
2013
Straight A's
5.2/126
Pressured by his deceased mother's ghost to return home to the family he abandoned, a former addict grabs a bag of pills and a sack of marijuana and h...
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Straight A's
1997
The Member of the Wedding
6/1
In the last days leading up to her older brother's marriage, a young girl is forced to face realities and grow up quickly. A tender adaptation of Cars...
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The Member of the Wedding
2013
Free Ride
5.4/51
A single mom in the 1970s raises her two daughters and becomes involved in illegal drug trade to make a better life.
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Free Ride
2015
The Good Dinosaur
6.737/5333
An epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend.
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The Good Dinosaur
2019
The Irishman
7.605/6552
Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank...
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The Irishman
2006
X-Men: The Last Stand
6.409/9330
When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men—led by Professor Charles Xavier—and the Brotherhood, a band of powerful mut...
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X-Men: The Last Stand
2003
X2
7.03/9776
Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col. William Stryker. Storm...
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X2
2014
X-Men: Days of Future Past
7.526/14858
The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods as they join forces with their younger selves in an e...
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X-Men: Days of Future Past
2003
X-Men: Premieres Around the World
6.1/7
We find notes from Singer, Stan Lee, Stewart, McKellen, Berry, Mane, Davison, Romijn-Stamos, Paquin, Jackman, Janssen, and Marsden.
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X-Men: Premieres Around the World
2003
X2 Global Webcast Highlights
4.9/7
In this piece, Michael Broidy of Fox Publicity sits with Bryan Singer, producers Ralph Winter and Lauren Shuler Donner, and actors Hugh Jackman, James...
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X2 Global Webcast Highlights
2018
Tell It to the Bees
7.583/421
Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie...
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Tell It to the Bees
2018
Furlough
5.8/51
In between caring for her mother, a young woman works part time at a prison. The rookie guard gets a chance to prove her mettle when she's tasked with...
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Furlough
2018
The Parting Glass
5.7/13
A family dealing with their sister's death travel across country to collect her belongings and piece together their memories of the woman they lost.
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The Parting Glass
2000
X-Men: The Mutant Watch
7.007/205
While Senator Kelly addresses a senate committee about the supposed mutant menace, we learn about the making of the movie, X-Men.
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X-Men: The Mutant Watch
2014
True Blood. A Farewell to Bon Temps
8.5/2
A documentary about the creation of one of HBO's most successful series.
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True Blood. A Farewell to Bon Temps
2012
The Carrier
7/1
A grieving mother, dealing with the loss of her philandering son, discovers a secret that will profoundly influence her life, the lives around her, an...
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The Carrier
2020
Making 'The Irishman'
7.2/5
Join legendary director Martin Scorsese, and acting icons Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Al Pacino going behind the scenes of their universally acclaim...
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Making 'The Irishman'
2021
American Underdog
7.153/304
The true story of Kurt Warner, who went from a stockboy at a grocery store to a two-time NFL MVP, Super Bowl champion, and Hall of Fame quarterback.
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American Underdog
2022
A Bit of Light
5.5/2
Ella, at almost forty, is forced to move back in with her father Alan. She's trying to stay sober having temporarily given up custody of her young dau...
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A Bit of Light
2023
True Spirit
6.985/199
When the tenacious young sailor Jessica Watson sets out to be the youngest person to sail solo, nonstop and unassisted around the world, many expect h...
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True Spirit
2003
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
8/2
Spike Lee's filmmaking career is examined in this partial making-of for the film 25th Hour (2002). Interviews with cast members from this film and his...
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