Anna Paquin is a versatile millennial actress who won the Academy awards for her fabulous acting skills at a very young age. She has movies like The Piano and the X Men in her bag and also acts in a television drama serial called True Blood.

Personal Life

Anna was born on 24th July 1982 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and her parents were both teachers and she is of a Dutch, French and Irish descent. When she was four years old they moved to New Zealand which is her mother’s native place and she got her first break for the role of ‘Flora’ for The Piano in an open audition at the park when she was only 9 years old and she had no proper training in acting. She played the viola, cello and the piano as she was much interested in music.

She completed her schooling from Windward School in West Los Angeles, California and then went to the Columbia University. Her marriage with her co star in True Blood Stephen Moyer was held in 21st August, 2010 at Malibu, California in a private way and then she gave birth to her twins who are still unrecognizable to the world as they did not post any pictures of them. The twins are named Charlie and Poppy but they are made to stay away from the paparazzi as a mutual decision by Anna and Stephen.

Career

Anna started her career by auditioning with no prior acting training at an open audition where she had gone to accompany her sister and there she was chosen for the role and appreciated by the critics. She also bagged her first award which was an Academy Award at the age of 11 in the year 1993. She later received a lot more proposals for films but she refused them all to continue her education. She acted in a few commercials and then on films like Jane Eyre, where she played the childhood of Jane and also acted in the X-Men movie for her love towards Marvel.

She has also acted in the television series of HBO known as True Blood and it was here that she met her future husband Stephen Mayer. After that she has acted in a lot of movies as well as television dramas. She has supported charities like Make A Wish Foundation, Elton John AIDS Foundation etc. Another revelation by her which would stir it up if she had a biography would be when she became a part of the Give A Damn Campaign led by Cyndi Lauper and revealed that she was bisexual. The net worth of Anna Paquin would be $14 million.