
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 | 5.638 |
Birthday | 1982-07-24 |
Place of Birth | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
Also Known As | Anna Helene Paquin, Άννα Πάκουιν, Анна Пэкуин, آنا پاکوین, |

2002

25th Hour
7.32/2379
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

2000

Finding Forrester
7.111/1104
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

1993

The Piano
7.4/1511
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a batt...
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2000

Almost Famous
7.498/2792
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

1999

She's All That
6.3/2100
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
6.9/970
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
5.614/396
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
6.92/467
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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2007

Mosaic
5.5/23
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

2007

Trick 'r Treat
6.999/1895
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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2009

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
7.2/115
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
7/1301
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

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

1998

Hurlyburly
5.5/98
Hollywood movers and shakers dissect their own personal lives when everything seems to clash together.
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Hurlyburly

2002

Buffalo Soldiers
6.3/316
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
5.7/62
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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2007

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
6.5/118
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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1999

A Walk on the Moon
6/100
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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2011

Scream 4
6.458/3793
Ten years have passed, and Sidney Prescott has put herself back together thanks to her writing. However, her return to Woodsboro sparks the return of...
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2010

The Romantics
4.9/239
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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2000

X-Men
7.002/11464
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

2003

X2
7.033/10224
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

2006

X-Men: The Last Stand
6.407/9759
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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2011

Margaret
6.342/298
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
6.9/226
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she mee...
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2010

Open House
4.8/48
A murderous couple invade a woman's home and hold her captive in the basement.
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Open House

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

2013

Straight A's
5.2/131
Pressured by his late 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 hits...
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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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2003

The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
7.3/3
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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The Evolution of an American Filmmaker

2013

Free Ride
5.4/53
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

2014

X-Men: Days of Future Past
7.529/15440
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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2023

True Spirit
6.991/231
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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2015

The Good Dinosaur
6.732/5597
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

2003

Evolution X - The Making of X-Men
7/1
A four part documentary on the making of the first X-Men film, from pre-production, to principal photography, to post-production, and reflections on t...
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Evolution X - The Making of X-Men

2003

The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men - Making X2
8/1
The making of the sequel to the first X-Men film, trying to make it bigger and better than the previous film, and the challenges that come with that g...
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The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men - Making X2

2003

X-Men: Premieres Around the World
5.9/8
We find notes from Singer, Stan Lee, Stewart, McKellen, Berry, Mane, Davison, Romijn-Stamos, Paquin, Jackman, Janssen, and Marsden.
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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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2018

Tell It to the Bees
7.537/446
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

2019

The Irishman
7.6/6907
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

2018

Furlough
5.741/56
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
5.7/16
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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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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2000

X-Men: The Mutant Watch
7/221
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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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'
7/4
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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2021

American Underdog
7.117/362
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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