30 Facts About Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin played the lead role of Sookie Stackhouse in the HBO vampire drama television series True Blood, for which she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in 2009.

Anna Paquin was born on 24 July 1982 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Anna Paquin's father, Brian Paquin, is a Canadian retired physical education teacher, and her mother, Mary, is a New Zealand teacher of English from Wellington.

Anna Paquin is the youngest of three children, with a brother and a sister.

Anna Paquin has stated that all her maternal great-grandparents had emigrated to New Zealand from Ireland due to the Great Famine.

The family moved to Wellington in 1986, and Anna Paquin attended Raphael House Rudolf Steiner School, Hutt Intermediate School and Wellington Girls' College.

Anna Paquin's parents divorced when she was 12 years old.

Anna Paquin studied for one year at Columbia College, where she lived in Carman Hall, and subsequently dropped out to continue her acting career.

Anna Paquin's sister read the ad and went to try out with a friend; this inspired Anna Paquin to audition.

Anna Paquin systematically rejected them, but she did appear in three commercials for the phone company MCI in 1994.

Anna Paquin later made a series of television commercials for Manitoba Telecom Systems in her birth city of Winnipeg.

Anna Paquin appeared as a voice in an audiobook entitled The Magnificent Nose in 1994.

Anna Paquin played the mutant superhero Rogue in the Marvel Comics movie X-Men in 2000, its sequel X2 in 2003, and its third installment, X-Men: The Last Stand, in 2006.

Anna Paquin played Elaine Goodale in HBO's made-for-TV film Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, based on Dee Brown's best-seller, garnering a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.

Anna Paquin was cast as waitress Sookie Stackhouse in the HBO series True Blood in 2008, her first role in a TV series.

The series saw Anna Paquin doing nude scenes for the first time.

Anna Paquin played a cameo role in Scream 4, alongside Kristen Bell in 2011.

Anna Paquin played the voice of Kristin on an episode of Phineas and Ferb.

Anna Paquin reprised her role as Rogue in the 2014 film X-Men: Days of Future Past, but most of her scenes were cut out for the theatrical release.

An alternative version of the film with all of Anna Paquin's scenes reinstated was released as The Rogue Cut on 14 July 2015.

Anna Paquin played Nancy Holt, the wife of a Confederate soldier, in the 2016 miniseries Roots.

Later in 2017 Anna Paquin starred in television series Bellevue, being the executive producer, and acted as Nancy Montgomery in the television miniseries Alias Grace.

In 2019, Anna Paquin appeared in Martin Scorsese's critically acclaimed drama, The Irishman.

In 2022, Anna Paquin starred in A Friend of the Family for Peacock.

In 2023, Anna Paquin starred in Netflix Original True Spirit alongside Teagan Croft and Cliff Curtis.

The movie is based on the journey of Jessica Watson, an Australian sailor who attempted solo global circumnavigation at 16 years old, with Anna Paquin playing her mother.

On 5 August 2009, Anna Paquin announced her engagement to her True Blood co-star Stephen Moyer, whom she had been dating since filming the series pilot in 2007.

Anna Paquin gave birth to fraternal twins on 12 September 2012.

Anna Paquin has a stepson and a stepdaughter through her marriage to Moyer.

In 2010, Anna Paquin came out as bisexual in a public service announcement for the Give a Damn campaign as part of the True Colors Fund, an advocacy group organised by Cyndi Lauper dedicated to LGBT equality.