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Anna Helene Paquin (born July 24, 1982) is a
Canadian and
New Zealand actress. Her breakthrough performance was in the New Zealand film
The Piano, which earned her an
Academy Award for
Best Supporting Actress in 1994, making her the second youngest winner in history at the age of 11.
Paquin is best known for her roles as
Rogue in the
X-Men movies and as
Sookie Stackhouse in the
HBO series
True Blood.
Early life
Paquin was born in
Winnipeg,
Manitoba,
Canada, the daughter of Mary Paquin (
née Brophy), an English teacher and native of
Wellington,
New Zealand, and Brian Paquin, a
high school physical education teacher. Paquin is the youngest of three children; she has two older siblings: brother Andrew, born in 1977, and sister Katya, born in 1980.
Paquin moved to New Zealand when she was four. She attended the
Raphael House Rudolf Steiner School until she was eight or nine.
Her musical childhood hobbies in New Zealand included playing the viola, cello and piano. She also did gymnastics, ballet, swimming and downhill skiing, though she did not have any hobbies related to acting.
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