Anna Paquin’s award-winning work in film, television and theater has proven her as an extraordinary and diverse performer in the entertainment industry.
Paquin stars in Flack, an original television comedic drama that follows witty publicity maven Robyn, who is an expert at her craft but a self-saboteur in her personal life. The show produced through Paquin and her production company, CASM Films and Hat Trick Productions, was recently picked up by Amazon Studios for its second season.
Paquin most recently starred in Showtime’s critically acclaimed drama series The Affair, which ran for five seasons. The series explored the emotional and psychological effects of an affair that destroyed two marriages and the crime that brings these individuals back together. Paquin played a pivotal role as Alison (Ruth Wilson) and Cole’s (Joshua Jackson) adult daughter Joanie Lockhart.
For seven seasons, Paquin starred in the HBO drama
Anna Paquin’s award-winning work in film, television and theater has proven her as an extraordinary and diverse performer in the entertainment industry.
Paquin stars in Flack, an original television comedic drama that follows witty publicity maven Robyn, who is an expert at her craft but a self-saboteur in her personal life. The show produced through Paquin and her production company, CASM Films and Hat Trick Productions, was recently picked up by Amazon Studios for its second season.
Paquin most recently starred in Showtime’s critically acclaimed drama series The Affair, which ran for five seasons. The series explored the emotional and psychological effects of an affair that destroyed two marriages and the crime that brings these individuals back together. Paquin played a pivotal role as Alison (Ruth Wilson) and Cole’s (Joshua Jackson) adult daughter Joanie Lockhart.
For seven seasons, Paquin starred in the HBO drama True Blood, for which she won a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama. Paquin’s other television credits include starring in a CBC & WGN America detective eight-part drama series Bellevue; Electric Dreams; the CBS Hallmark Hall of Fame movie The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler, HBO’s original film Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee; and Netflix’s Alias Grace based on the novel by Margaret Atwood. In 2016, Paquin was seen as Nancy Holt in HISTORY’s remake of Roots in “Night Four.” She was nominated for a Critics’ Choice Award for her role.
In film, Paquin was last seen in Netflix’s 2019 Best Picture-nominated crime drama, The Irishman, opposite Robert De Niro. Directed by Martin Scorsese, the film centers on Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran, a reputed hitman suspected of involvement in the disappearance and murder of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa. The film had its world premiere at the 2019 New York Film Festival and closed out the London Film Festival. At the 92nd Academy Awards, the film received ten nominations, including Best Picture, along with five nominations including Best Motion Picture – Drama at the 77th Golden Globe Awards. The cast was also nominated for Ensemble awards from the Screen Actors Guild.
Additional film credits include Margaret; X-Men; X-Men 2; and X-Men: The Last Stand; The Squid and The Whale; 25th Hour; Finding Forrester; Almost Famous; Amistad; Buffalo Soldiers; A Walk on the Moon; Fly Away Home; Jane Eyre; The Romantics; Straight A’s; Tell It To The Bees; and Stephen Moyer’s The Parting Glass in which she co-produced and co-starred alongside Cynthia Nixon, Denis O’Hare and Ed Asner. Her performance in Margaret earned her Best Actress Awards from both the London and Chicago Critics Circle. Paquin also starred in and co-produced Blue State with her brother Andrew, under their banner Paquin Films. Paquin’s film debut in Jane Campion’s The Piano led to her winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at the age of eleven.
On stage, Paquin performed the lead in The Glory of Living for director Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Other stage credits include Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth, After Ashley, directed by Terry Kinney, and Neil Labute’s The Distance from Here.
In 2014, Paquin and Stephen Moyer, through their production company CASM, signed a two-year, first-look deal with HBO to develop series, films, and miniseries for them to produce, direct and star. In 2013, Paquin starred in Free Ride, which she produced through CASM. Based on a true story, the film follows Christina (Paquin), an abused single mother in the 1970’s who is caught up in the Florida drug trade.
