Anna Paquin is a New Zealand-Canadian film, theatre and television actress best known for her roles in films such as Piano Farewell, Fly High with You and X-Men. Won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress at the age of 12, she did not intend to become an actress, but as fate would have it, she played a little naughty in the "X-Men" series one after another, and it was this role that made her famous all over the world.
Among her other iconic roles, the most popular was "True Blood" from 2008 to 2014, which gave her more popularity and honors, including a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, a Saturn Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
The early life of Anna Paquin
Anna Paquin was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, to an English teacher father from Wellington, New Zealand, and a physics teacher mother who moved to New Zealand with her family when she was 4 years old. In 1991, Jane Campion, the director of "Piano Farewell", was eager to find a little girl to play the lead role, and published a newspaper ad announcing a public audition. Anna Paquin's sister watched the ad and tried it with a friend, which inspired the 9-year-old.
When Jane Campion met Anna Paquin, she impressed him with her performance, and she also won out of 5,000 candidates. The film was released in 1993 and won awards at major film festivals, and Anna Paquin's debut won her the 1993 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the second young Oscar winner in history.
Anna Paquin starred in "X-Men" at the age of 17
Anna Paquin's parents separated the year after filming "Piano Farewell", and then she moved back to Los Angeles with her mother, where she completed the last two years of high school, then went to Columbia University, and after a year of study, she temporarily put her studies on hold in order to continue pursuing her acting career. Between 2001 and 2006, Anna Paquin worked almost exclusively in New York and London, mostly for the X-Men series.
Anna Paquin gradually moved from protagonist to supporting role
In 2006, Anna Paquin starred in and produced "Blue Country", but it did not cause much splash. In 2007, she returned to Hollywood to complete the films "Don't Mess with the Kids" and "Scream 4", the latter of which was released in 2011. In the next two years, Anna Paquin went directly from the former protagonist to the supporting role, and she slowly shifted the camera from Hollywood to the TV drama industry.
Anna Paquin starred in "True Blood"
Anna Paquin's most famous work is the romantic drama "True Blood" in which she starred for six consecutive years. After premiering in its first season in 2008, the show immediately became the most popular series among teenagers, and Anna Paquin also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series. The series was then renewed for a seventh season, which eventually ended in 2014.
A large number of fans were shocked by the news of the show's end, and the main cast was also preparing other roles, such as Alexander Skarsgard, who had multiple film roles to shoot to start, including "Eastern", "Tarzan Returns: Dangerous Jungle" and "The Giver".
The pilot episode starring Anna Paquin failed
Since the end of the show in 2014, Anna Paquin does not seem to have received the same public attention as "True Blood" on HBO, mainly because she has not focused on the big screen and other better scripts, but has been focusing on TV pilots, starring in one of the Canadian dramas "Bellevue", although experts have given great encouragement after watching it, but the network platform felt that the project had no broadcast value and canceled it after the premiere.
Anna Paquin turned her attention to Netflix again, starring in the adaptation of the Alias Grace series, but again did not receive the same attention as before, and many viewers claimed that these episodes of her were tedious, which frustrated her and made it difficult to find her place in Hollywood.
Anna Paquin is back in X-Men: Reverse the Future, but most of the scenes about her are cut
In 2014, Anna Paquin starred in her last X-Men series. But because the film was so long, most of her scenes were cut for the release of the film. Fortunately, the alternative version of the film restored all scenes of Anna Paquin and was released on July 14, 2015 under the name The Rogue Cut, and finally grossed more than 750 million yuan.
Anna Paquin reaped the best love
At the beginning of her debut, Anna Paquin briefly dated actor Jacques Phoenix. Then on August 5, 2009, Anna Paquin announced her engagement to her partner Stephen Moyer. Just like Kristen Stewart dated Robert Pattinson in Twilight and Nina Dobrev dated Ian Somerhalder in Blood Diaries, they have also evolved from a screen couple to a couple since 2007.
After more than three years of love, the two married in a private home in Malibu, California. In September 2012, Anna Paquin gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix babies, son Charlie Moyer and daughter Bobby Moyer. Speaking recently about the secrets of maintaining a marital relationship, she said: "We are each other's best friends and just want to give each other the best. His success is my success and vice versa. ”