page_title: Anna Paquin
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Anna Paquin / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: Stephen Moyer - Anna Paquin
context_page_description: Anna Hélène Paquin is a New Zealand-Canadian actress. She was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and brought up in Wellington, New Zealand, before moving to Los Angeles during her youth. She completed a year at Columbia University, before leaving to focus on her acting career. As a child, she played the role of Flora McGrath in Jane Campion's romantic drama film The Piano, despite having had little acting experience. For her performance, she garnered critical acclaim and received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at the age of 11, making her the second-youngest winner in Oscar history, after Tatum O'Neal.
  Paquin was a successful child actress, receiving multiple Young Artist Award nominations for her roles in Fly Away Home, The Member of the Wedding, and A Walk on the Moon, and was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for appearing in Cameron Crowe's comedy-drama film Almost Famous. She played mutant superheroine Rogue in multiple films of the X-Men franchise and was nominated for a Saturn Award for her performance in the first installment.
context_section_description: On 5 August 2009, Paquin announced her engagement to her True Blood co-star Stephen Moyer, whom she had been dating since filming the series pilot in 2007. They married on 21 August 2010 at a private residence in Malibu, California. Paquin gave birth to fraternal twins in September 2012, and through her marriage to Moyer, she also has a step-son, Billy, born in 2000, and a step-daughter, born in 2002. The family resides in Venice, Los Angeles, California.
caption: Paquin with husband and True Blood costar Stephen Moyer, 2009
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