Fly Away Home is a 1996 family drama film directed by Carroll Ballard. The film stars Anna Paquin, Jeff Daniels, and Dana Delany. Fly Away Home was released on September 13, 1996, by Columbia Pictures.
The Piano is a 1993 period drama film written and directed by Jane Campion and starring Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, and Anna Paquin in her first acting role. Set in the mid-19th century, the film focuses on a psychologically mute Scottish woman who travels to a remote part of New Zealand with her young daughter after her arranged marriage to a frontiersman.
Anna Hélène Paquin is a New Zealand-Canadian actress. She was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and brought up in Wellington, New Zealand, before moving to Los Angeles, California, US, 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 (1993), 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.
Events from the year 1997 in Canada.
Breckin Erin Meyer is an American actor, voice actor, writer, producer, and drummer, known for his roles in films such as Clueless, Road Trip, Rat Race, and Garfield: The Movie, for providing voices for the television series Robot Chicken and for playing Joseph Gribble in King of The Hill (2000–2010).
Blue State is a 2007 Canadian/American romantic comedy film directed by Marshall Lewy and starring Breckin Meyer and Anna Paquin. The film was the first effort of Paquin in an executive role.
Stephen Moyer is an English film and television actor and director who is best known as vampire Bill Compton in the HBO series True Blood. He was born in Brentwood, Essex and attended St Martin's, a comprehensive school in Hutton, Essex. His first television role was in 1993 as Philip Masefield in the TV adaptation of the play Conjugal Rites, written by actor/playwright Roger Hall.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is a 2007 Western historical drama television film adapted from the 1970 book of the same name by Dee Brown. The film was written by Daniel Giat, directed by Yves Simoneau and produced by HBO Films. The book on which the movie is based is a history of Native Americans in the American West in the 1860s and 1870s, focusing upon the transition from traditional ways of living to living on reservations and their treatment during that period. The title of the film and the book is taken from a line in the Stephen Vincent Benet poem "American Names." It was shot in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Anna is a Latin form of the Greek: Ἄννα and the Hebrew name Hannah, meaning "favor" or "grace" or "beautiful". Anna is in wide use in countries across the world as are its variants Anne, originally a French version of the name, though in use in English speaking countries for hundreds of years, and Ann, which was originally the English spelling. Saint Anne is traditionally the name of the mother of the Virgin Mary, which accounts for its wide use and popularity among Christians. The name has also been used for numerous saints and queens..
Élise Guilbault is a Canadian film and television actress. She won the Genie Award for Best Actress for her role in the film The Woman Who Drinks , and was a nominee for Cap Tourmente. She also starred in several later films by The Woman Who Drinks director Bernard Émond, also appearing in The Novena , The Legacy and A Place to Live .
Catherine De Léan is a Canadian actress. She has been nominated for a 2012 Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for her role in the film Nuit #1. She has appeared in other films and television roles, including Les Hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin, Trauma, The Secret Life of Happy People , Le Banquet, and Le Fils de Jean. She has also appeared on stage.
Nicolas Paquin was an early pioneer in New France now Quebec, Canada), a carpenter and the ancestor of virtually all of the Paquins in North America.
Karen Paquin is a Canadian rugby union player. Known for her power and speed, she is skilled at both the sevens and 15s version of the game.
Genevieve Rose Angelson is an American TV actress known for playing Caitlin Hobart on House of Lies, Det. Nicole Gravely on Backstrom, and Patti Robinson on Good Girls Revolt.
Bellevue is a Canadian television crime drama series, it premiered on CBC Television on February 20, 2017. Created by Jane Maggs and Adrienne Mitchell, the series stars Anna Paquin as Annie Ryder, a police officer investigating the disappearance of a transgender teen while also dealing with the return of a mysterious person from her past.
Canadian New Zealanders are New Zealand citizens who are of Canadian descent including immigrants or Canadian-born citizens and residents. Canadian New Zealanders constitute a small minority of New Zealand's population.
New Zealand Canadians are Canadian citizens of New Zealand descent or New Zealand-born people who reside in Canada. According to the 2016 Canadian Census there were 15,395 Canadians who claimed full or partial New Zealand ancestry.
Larissa Corriveau is a Canadian actress from Quebec. She is most noted for her performance in the film Ghost Town Anthology , for which she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards and a Prix Iris nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 21st Quebec Cinema Awards.
Geneviève Schmidt is a Canadian actress. She is most noted for her performance in the film Compulsive Liar (Menteur), for which she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2020.
