Anna Paquin on David Letterman

Posted on 02. Feb, 2010 by quynhgiao in Actors

Anna Helene Paquin ( born July 24, 1982) is a 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.

Career

X-Men and beyond

Paquin returned to worldwide prominence with her role as Rogue in the blockbuster X-Men movie in 2000, its sequel X2 in 2003, and its third installment X-Men: The Last Stand in 2006.

In the summer of 2006, she completed filming Blue State. She was the executive-producer of the film, the film having been made by Paquin Films, a production company formed by both her and her brother, Andrew Paquin. In November 2006, she completed Margaret. This film has yet to be released. Its release is unknown, due to ongoing legal disputes.

In 2007, Paquin received an Emmy Award nomination for Supporting Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie for her role as Elaine Goodale in HBO’s made-for-TV movie Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, based on Dee Brown’s bestseller. She also received Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations in similar categories.

In 2008, Paquin appeared as Sookie Stackhouse in the HBO series True Blood, her first role in a TV series. The show is based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels by Charlaine Harris. Paquin won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Television Drama Series for her role in the show, and also won a Satellite Award in a similar category. She has also been nominated for the same category in the 2010 Golden Globe Awards. The second season of True Blood premiered in the US in June 2009. Season three will premiere in the summer of 2010.

In 2009, Paquin played Irena Sendler, a Polish woman hailed as a heroine of the Holocaust, in The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler, a CBS TV film biopic based on the book Mother of the Children of the Holocaust: The Irena Sendler Story, by Anna Mieszkowska. The film was made in Latvia, and was a Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation for the network. Paquin’s performance earned her a 2010 nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Film.

Paquin’s next film is The Romantics, a romantic comedy alongside Josh Duhamel and Katie Holmes. The film is slated for a 2010 release.