Anna Paquin
Anna Paquin
Anna Helene Paquinis a Canadian-born New Zealand actress. Born in Manitoba and brought up in Wellington, New Zealand, Paquin studied at Hutt Intermediate School and the Wellington Girls' College in New Zealand before moving to Los Angeles during her youth where she studied at Windward School and went on to complete a year at Columbia University before leaving post-secondary to focus on her acting career. As a child, she beat 5000 candidates for the role of Flora McGrath in Jane...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth24 July 1982
CityWinnipeg, Canada
CountryCanada
I work out like a maniac and I spray tan a lot. Genetics were kind, but I work very hard.
While I have always, felt like an outsider, it's because of the professional choices I have made, so it's not like I am planning to throw myself a giant pity party.
We all had to learn Southern accents. It wasn't a big research show. With the 'Wounded Knee' project, I locked myself in my apartment with history books so I would know what we're talking about.
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.
None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.
Like most people my age, my job is the main focus of my life. I don't have some kind of jet-setting fabulous lifestyle where I'm constantly in situations to acquire amazing anecdotes, that's it.
When it's a love scene with someone you actually love, there's no feeling like, 'Can I touch him here? Can I touch him there?' You know what your boundaries are - or what they aren't, I suppose.
Sookie is always in distress, it wouldn't be 'True Blood' if someone wasn't trying to kill her.
Sookie is about as radically different from me and a lot of the work I've previously done as you could possibly come up with.
Frankly, no one had ever asked me before. My sexuality is something I'm completely comfortable with and open about.