Anna Paquin is the first millennial to have received an Academy Award nomination for acting, and the first to win.

She was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, to Mary (Brophy), an English teacher from Wellington, New Zealand, and Brian Paquin, a Canadian phys-ed teacher. Anna moved to her mother's native country when she was four years old. Her first acting job ever was at age nine in the movie The Piano (1993), which was shot in New Zealand. At age 16, she relocated to Los Angeles where she completed her last two years of high school (graduating in 2000). She then moved to New York where she attended Columbia University for one year. Between 2001 and 2004, she worked almost exclusively on stage in both New York and London. In 2007, Anna was cast in HBO's True Blood (2008), which concluded shooting its seventh and final season in 2014.

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Anna Paquin in A Friend of the Family (2022)

Anna Paquin and Jake Lacy in A Friend of the Family (2022)

Anna Paquin and Zachary Levi in American Underdog (2021)

Anna Paquin and Lola Ogunnaike in Couch Surfing (2018)

Anna Paquin, Lyriq Bent, Jaidyn Triplett, and Mykal-Michelle Harris in The Affair (2014)

Anna Paquin, Helen Sadler, Adrian Winther, and Giles Matthey in True Blood (2008)

Harvey Keitel and Holly Hunter in The Piano (1993)

Patrick Stewart, James Marsden, and Hugh Jackman in X-Men (2000)

Famke Janssen, Halle Berry, Alan Cumming, Anna Paquin, Ian McKellen, Shawn Ashmore, Hugh Jackman, and Aaron Stanford in X2: X-Men United (2003)

Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, and Owen Kline in The Squid and the Whale (2005)

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