Not one to be typecast, Paquin also ventured into the teen movie subgenre with the likable "She's All That" (1999), starring as the younger sister of BMOC Freddie Prinze, Jr., who provides advice on how to woo offbeat high schooler Rachel Leigh Cook.In 2000, Paquin graduated high school and stepped into the Hollywood blockbuster machine by taking the role of Rogue, a teenage mutant who can absorb the powers and even the life out of her fellow advanced humans, in the film version of the influential comic book, "X-Men" (2000). While shooting the latter project in Canada, she traveled to Montreal to shoot five television commercials for a telephone company in her former hometown of Winnipeg.As Paquin grew into her teens, her roles matured with her she was a seductive runaway "gifted" to a drug-addled Sean Penn and Kevin Spacey by Garry Shandling in the film version of David Rabe's "Hurlybury" (1998), and played the daughter of Diane Lane's mom on the verge in "A Walk on the Moon" (1999). She played a young girl who helps raise a flock of Canadian geese in the endearing children's' drama "Fly Away Home" (1996) for director Carroll Ballard, and earned an impressive cameo in Stephen Spielberg's "Amistad" (1997) as Isabella II, Queen of Spain. She began to slowly build a film career based on interesting characters rather than high-profile projects. Paquin's performance proved that her Oscar win was no fluke. Offers flooded in after the Oscar win, but Paquin steadfastly refused all until Franco Zefferelli offered her the chance to play a young Jane Eyre in his 1996 film version of the Charlotte Bronte novel. She had relocated to Los Angeles, CA with her mother following her parents' divorce, and was devoting more attention to her studies than to future film roles. Her acceptance speech, marked by a near 30-second moment of breathless silence, charmed many viewers.Paquin's career might have stopped after this momentous occasion. To the surprise of many, she won the award, which made her the second youngest actress to win an Academy Award, after Tatum O'Neal in "Paper Moon" (1973). The picture, which was envisioned as a modest art picture, was a box office success, and the 11-year-old Paquin was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1994. Paquin delivered a mature and moving performance as Flora, who speaks for her silent and headstrong mother's sign language and later provides the undoing for her affair with wild New Zealander Harvey Keitel. But casting directors for the Jane Campion period drama saw something in then nine-year-old's audition, and thus, cast her as Holly Hunter's daughter over 5,000 other hopefuls.The choice was an inspired one. She attended the audition for "The Piano" simply because her sister was going, and her earliest interests focused more on music (she played cello and piano) and sports than performing. Acting was, for all intents and purposes, started out as a bit of a lark for Paquin. James, Aparna Nancherla, Larry Owens, Zane Pais, Anna Paquin, Isaac Powell , Ben Rappaport, Milan Ray, Jack Reynor, Miranda Richardson, Marquis Rodriguez, James Scully, Zuzanna Szadkowski, Lulu Wilson, Don Wycherley and Jeena Yi.Born Anna Helene Paquin in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Paquin's parents were natives of New Zealand, and the family - which included her older siblings Andrew and Kate - relocated to that country when she was four. The cast for the season also includes Gbenga Akinnagbe, Susan Blackwell, Lucy Boynton , Tom Burke , Zoe Chao , Maria Dizzia, Minnie Driver , Grace Edwards, Kathryn Gallagher, Garrett Hedlund, Telci Huynh , Nikki M. More than two dozen actors - including Game of Thrones star Kit Harrington and Judas and the Black Messiah breakout Dominique Fishback - have joined the cast of Amazon’s Modern Love anthology.īased on the New York Times column of the same name, season two of Modern Love filmed in New York City, Albany, Troy and Schenectady, New York, and Dublin and is set to air later this year on Amazon’s Prime Video.
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