Anna Helene Paquin (born July 24, 1982) is a Canadian-born New Zealand actress. Paquin’s first critically successful film was The Piano, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1994 at the age of 11 – the second youngest winner in history.[1] Her acting career took off almost half a decade later when she appeared in a string of successful films including She’s All That, Almost Famous and the X-Men franchise.

Paquin has received critical acclaim for her role as Sookie Stackhouse in the HBO series True Blood, for which she won the 2008 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama.

Personal Quotes

None of the characters I’ve played are really like me. That would be boring. It wouldn’t be acting.

Everything about being a teenager and not feeling like you fit in is just magnified by being a mutant!

If I don’t do laundry today, I’m gonna have to buy new clothes tomorrow.

There are very few films or plays or anything about really happy people with perfect lives. Everyone is usually screwed up in some way and that is usually where the work comes in – figuring out how to make it believable and make it real to present someone’s problems that you don’t necessarily actually know anything about. I mean it is not challenging to be happy all the time. I don’t think I could do it!

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

I’m not very political. I’m also not American and I don’t get to vote so my feelings are not really relevant.

You’ll live a full and happy life if your pursue things you think are important and live the life you want to live