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Paquin in 2011, photo by DFree /Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Anna Hélène Paquin
Place of Birth: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Date of Birth: July 24, 1982
Ethnicity: * father – French-Canadian, German * mother – Irish
Anna Paquin is a Canadian/New Zealand actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Piano (1993). Her roles also include the films Jane Eyre (1996), Fly Away Home , Amistad , Hurlyburly , A Walk on the Moon , She’s All That , It’s the Rage , Castle in the Sky , X-Men (2000), and its sequels; Almost Famous , Finding Forrester , Buffalo Soldiers , Darkness (2002), 25th Hour , Steamboy , The Squid and the Whale , Blue State , Mosaic , Trick ‘r Treat (2007), The Romantics , Open House (2010), Scream 4 , Margaret (2011), Straight A’s , Free Ride (2013), The Good Dinosaur , Furlough , The Parting Glass , Tell It to the Bees , The Irishman , American Underdog , A Bit of Light , and True Spirit ; the made-for-tv movies The Member of the Wedding , Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee , and The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler ; and the series True Blood , Susanna , Bellevue , Alias Grace , The Affair , Flack , and A Friend of the Family .
Anna was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and was raised in Wellington, New Zealand. She is the daughter of Mary, a teacher of English, and Brian Paquin, a physical education teacher. Her father is Canadian, and is of French-Canadian and German descent. The surname Paquin is French. Her mother is from New Zealand. Anna has stated that her mother’s family were all Irish immigrants.
Her brother is director Andrew Paquin. Anna is married to English actor Stephen Moyer , with whom she has two children. She has also been billed as Anna Emery, Stephen’s birth surname.
Anna is the first millennial, and the first person born in the 1980s, to have been nominated for an Academy Award for acting, and is also the first person fitting either or both descriptions to win (with her Best Supporting Actress Oscar for 1993).
Anna’s paternal grandfather was Albert Paquin (the son of Adélard Paquin and Marie/Maria Allaire). Albert was born in Saint Jude, Québec, and was French-Canadian. Adélard was the son of Paul Joseph Paquin and Marcelline Phaneuf. Marie was the daughter of Charles Allaire and Marie-Josephte Malboeuf/Malleboeuf dite Beausoleil.
Anna’s paternal grandmother was Agnes Tuckwell (born Agnes Janzen, the daughter of Johann J. “John” Janzen and Helena Unrau). Agnes is the daughter of ethnic German parents whose families had lived in Russia. Johann was the son of Johann Janzen, who was born in Mariapol, and of Anna J. Toews, who was born in Schoenfeld, Bergthal. Helena was the daughter of Albert Unrau/Unruh and Margaretha/Margareta Schellenberg, who was from Molotschna/Molochna, a Mennonite settlement in Russia, in what is now Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine.
Anna’s maternal grandfather’s surname was Brophy.
Sources: https://mobile.twitter.com
Genealogy of Anna Paquin – https://www.geni.com
Anna’s paternal grandfather, Albert Paquin, on the 1911 Canada Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Anna’s paternal grandfather, Albert Paquin, on the 1926 Canada Prairie Provinces Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Obituary of Anna’s paternal grandmother, Agnes (Janzen) Paquin Tuckwell – https://passages.winnipegfreepress.com
Obituary of Anna’s paternal great-grandfather, Johann J. “John” Janzen – https://newspaperarchive.com