Anna Paquin

Anna Helene Paquin, a New Zealand actress, was born on 24 July 1982 in Winnipeg, Canada, and grew up in Wellington. Her first film role came in the 1993 romantic drama The Piano, where her performance earned her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at age 11—making her the second-youngest winner in Oscar history. During her childhood, she appeared in Fly Away Home (1996), Jane Eyre (1996), Amistad (1997), The Member of the Wedding (1997), A Walk on the Moon (1999), and Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous (2000).

As an adult, Paquin took on major roles, most notably playing Rogue in the X-Men film series from 2000 to 2006, with a return in 2014. She also starred as Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress in the fictional Louisiana town of Bon Temps, on HBO’s vampire drama True Blood (2008–2014). For that lead performance, she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in 2009. While filming the series, she began a relationship with co-star Stephen Moyer, and the two married in 2010.