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One of the few actors or actresses to receive an Academy Award without being a professional actor beforehand. Anna didn't plan on acting, even when she went to audition for the role that won her an Oscar. She was accompanying her sister to the audition.

She keeps her Oscar statue in her bedroom closet so her friends won't see it and feel the need to comment on it.

Announced her engagement to Stephen Moyer on August 5, 2009. They met on the set of True Blood (2008), and were a couple by the pilot episode. He proposed to her on a beach in Hawaii with a vintage-style ring.

Gave birth to her twins (her first and second children) at age 30, a son Charlie Moyer and a daughter Poppy Moyer on September 12, 2012. Children's father is her husband, Stephen Moyer. She delivered them two months early via emergency cesarean section.

Though she was born in Canada, she considers herself a Kiwi from New Zealand since she grew up there.

On 1 April 1996 on the Late Show with David Letterman, Dave has a man on briefly who had shot for a million dollars the night before from halfway at a basketball game but missed and offered him $10,000 to try a shorter shot on stage but he missed again. The man left and Anna walked on stage immediately and Dave who was still holding the money in his hand made the same offer to Anna who, without any prep, effortlessly made the shot. Dave handed her the money immediately and they got on with the show. The next night, Dave had Anna on briefly to explain he couldn't give her the money but could donate it in her name to charity. There were no hard feelings shown.

Was 6 months pregnant with her twins when she completed filming the fifth season of True Blood (2008).

She played the daughter of Jeff Daniels in L'incredibile volo (1996) and then his romantic partner in Il calamaro e la balena (2005) nine years later.

Speaks French fluently.

Her family moved to New Zealand when Anna was 4 years old.

She is naturally brunette but has kept her hair blonde since she started playing Sookie Stackhouse on True Blood (2008).

Returned to work 3 months after giving birth to her twins to begin filming the sixth season of True Blood (2008).

Has an older brother, Andrew Paquin, a film producer, with whom she was working on Blue State - Un democratico in cattivo stato (2007), and a sister, Katya.

When she was younger, she wanted to be the Prime Minister of New Zealand, or a lawyer.

Her father, Brian Paquin, is a physical education teacher. Her mother, Mary Paquin, is an English teacher. Her parents are divorced.

Has kept in close contact with Shawn Ashmore (Iceman/Bobby Drake) and Aaron Stanford (John Allerdyce/Pyro) after filming X-Men 2 (2003).

While filming the movie Amistad (1997) in Montreal during the summer, she made a side-trip to Toronto to film five television commercials for the telephone company of her old hometown in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She delivers the commercials in a variety of costumes in her Canadian accent rather than her New Zealand one. (1997)

She attended Columbia University in New York City in 2000, but dropped out after a year and did not graduate in order to pursue acting.

Mentioned on Late Night with David Letterman Episodio #16.176 (2009) that she had recently seen her first movie Lezioni di piano (1993) for the first time in her life.

Among the guests at her wedding to Stephen Moyer were Alan Ball, Ryan Kwanten, Sam Trammell, Rutina Wesley, Carrie Preston and Elijah Wood.

At the time she attended Columbia University, actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Julia Stiles and Drew Struzan were all registered students at the university.

She enjoys photography; she used to play the cello.

She married her boyfriend of 3 years, Stephen Moyer, on Aug. 21, 2010, following a year-long engagement.

Her father is of French-Canadian and German descent (his mother's family were ethnic Germans from the Russian Empire). Her surname is French. Her mother is of Irish origin.

Stepmother of Stephen Moyer's children Billy (born 2000) and Lilac (born 2002).

Is a huge fan of the alternative rock band Nine Inch Nails and The Beatles.

Attended and graduated from Windward School in West Los Angeles, California (June 2000); she completed the school's community service requirement by working in an L.A. soup kitchen and at a special education center.

She returned to continue her studies at Columbia University in New York City in January 2003.

She is the first person born in the 1980s, and the first millennial, to have received an Academy Award nomination for acting (for Lezioni di piano (1993)), and the first one to win. The first male born in the 1980s to have received an acting Oscar nomination was Haley Joel Osment (Best Supporting Actor for The Sixth Sense - Il sesto senso (1999)), and the first millennial male to have won an acting Oscar is Eddie Redmayne (Best Actor for La teoria del tutto (2014)).

She was the original choice for the role of Enola in Kevin Costner's Waterworld (1995), which eventually went to Tina Majorino.

She has appeared in two films that have been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Lezioni di piano (1993) and The Irishman (2019).

Ranked #51 in the 2011 FHM Australia list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World".

She was one of Teen People magazine's "25 Hottest Stars under 25" in 2002.

Was number 93 on VH1's 100 Greatest Kid Stars (2005).

On Maxim Magazine's annual Hot 100 Women list, she ranked #50 in 2008, #84 in 2010 and #78 in 2014.

Born on the same date as Elisabeth Moss and Lauren Miller Rogen.