Anna Paquin
Biography: Anna Hélène Paquin (born July 24, 1982) is a Canadian-New Zealand actress. Born in Winnipeg and raised in Wellington, Paquin made her acting debut portraying Flora McGrath in the romantic drama film The Piano (1993), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at age 11, making her the second-youngest winner in Oscar history. As a child actress, she received multiple Young Artist Award nominations for her roles in Fly Away Home (1996), The Member of the Wedding (1997), and A Walk on the Moon (1999), and a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for appearing in Cameron Crowe's comedy-drama film Almost Famous (2000). She also appeared in the films Jane Eyre (1996) and Amistad (1997). Paquin continued to perform prominent roles into adulthood, portraying mutant superheroine Rogue in the 20th Century Fox X-Men franchise (2000–2014), for which she was nominated for a Saturn Award for her performance in the first installment. Her other film credits include 25th Hour (2002), Trick 'r Treat (2007), Margaret (2011), The Good Dinosaur (2015), and The Irishman (2019). She played the lead role of Sookie Stackhouse in the HBO vampire drama television series True Blood (2008–2014). For her performance in the series, Paquin won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in 2009, and was nominated for an additional Golden Globe Award, as well as three Saturn Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in 2010. Among other accolades, Paquin was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her work on the television film Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007). She received an additional Golden Globe Award nomination for her work on the television film The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009).
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 24, 1982
Deathday: N/A
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25th Hour
2002-12-19
25th Hour
Overview: In New York City in the days following the events of 9/11, Monty Brogan is a convicted drug dealer about to start a seven-year prison sentence, and his final hours of freedom are devoted to hanging out with his closest buddies and trying to prepare his girlfriend for his extended absence.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-19
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Finding Forrester
2000-12-21
Finding Forrester
Overview: Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents while living on the streets of the Bronx. He accidentally runs into an old writer named Forrester who discovers his passion for writing. With help from his new mentor Jamal receives a scholarship to a private school.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-21
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The Piano
1993-05-18
The Piano
Overview: When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-18
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Almost Famous
2000-09-15
Almost Famous
Overview: In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and tour with the up-and-coming band, Stillwater.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-15
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She's All That
1999-01-29
She's All That
Overview: High school hotshot Zach Siler is the envy of his peers. But his popularity declines sharply when his cheerleader girlfriend, Taylor, leaves him for sleazy reality-television star Brock Hudson. Desperate to revive his fading reputation, Siler agrees to a seemingly impossible challenge. He has six weeks to gain the trust of nerdy outcast Laney Boggs -- and help her to become the school's next prom queen.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-29
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The Squid and the Whale
2005-10-05
The Squid and the Whale
Overview: Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-05
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Darkness
2002-10-11
Darkness
Overview: A teenage girl moves into a remote country home with her family, only to discover that the gloomy old house has a horrifying past that threatens to destroy them.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-11
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Fly Away Home
1996-09-13
Fly Away Home
Overview: Amy is only 13 years old when her mother is killed. She goes to Canada to live with her father, an eccentric inventor whom she barely knows. Amy is miserable in her new life... until she discovers a nest of goose eggs that were abandoned when a local forest was torn down. The eggs hatch and Amy becomes "Mama Goose". When Winter comes, Amy, and her dad must find a way to lead the birds South.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-13
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Mosaic
2007-01-09
Mosaic
Overview: A break-in and murder at a New York City museum sparks an investigation by Interpol Agent Nathan Nelson. When he finds an ancient artifact, Nelson takes it home to conduct more research. A lightning storm, a pet chameleon and the artifact gives his daughter, Maggie, mystical powers to shape-shift her appearance at will which includes the ability to mimic other people and animals.
Genres: Action Animation Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-09
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Trick 'r Treat
2007-12-09
Trick 'r Treat
Overview: Four interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: an everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the one guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank, and a bitter old recluse receives an uninvited guest.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-09
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The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
2009-04-19
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
Overview: Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, her idea is met with skepticism by fellow workers, her parish priest, and even her own mother Janina.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-19
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Amistad
1997-12-10
Amistad
Overview: In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are then held prisoner in Connecticut, and their release becomes the subject of heated debate. Freed slave Theodore Joadson wants Cinque and the others exonerated and recruits property lawyer Roger Baldwin to help his case. Eventually, John Quincy Adams also becomes an ally.
Genres: Drama History Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-10
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It's the Rage
1999-09-11
It's the Rage
Overview: A rich cross-section of urban USA find their lives changed when their fates collide at gunpoint. At the centre of it all are Helen and Warren Harding, an up-scale couple on the brink of divorce, whose awakening in the night by a burglar sets off a catastrophic series of events.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-11
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Hurlyburly
1998-12-25
Hurlyburly
Overview: Hollywood movers and shakers dissect their own personal lives when everything seems to clash together.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-25
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Buffalo Soldiers
2002-10-31
Buffalo Soldiers
Overview: A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.
Genres: Drama Comedy War Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-31
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Blue State
2007-04-27
Blue State
Overview: A disgruntled Democrat follows through on a drunken campaign promise to move to Canada if George "Dubya" Bush gets re-elected.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-27
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
2007-05-27
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Overview: Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation, and Sitting Bull the proud Lakota chief whose tribe won the American Indians’ last major victory at Little Big Horn.
Genres: Western Drama History TV Movie War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-27
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A Walk on the Moon
1999-01-29
A Walk on the Moon
Overview: The world of a young housewife is turned upside down when she has an affair with a free-spirited blouse salesman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-29
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Scream 4
2011-04-13
Scream 4
Overview: Ten years have passed, and Sidney Prescott has put herself back together thanks to her writing. However, her return to Woodsboro sparks the return of the Ghostface Killer.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-13
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The Romantics
2010-09-10
The Romantics
Overview: Alliances are tested when seven college pals reunite to watch two of their own say “I do” at a seaside wedding. But the maid of honor and the groom share a passionate history, and the bride isn’t the only one who’s wondering if it’s all in the past.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-10
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X-Men
2000-07-13
X-Men
Overview: Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-13
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X2
2003-04-27
X2
Overview: Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col. William Stryker. Storm, Wolverine and Jean Grey must join their usual nemeses—Magneto and Mystique—to unhinge Stryker's scheme to exterminate all mutants.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-27
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X-Men: The Last Stand
2006-05-24
X-Men: The Last Stand
Overview: When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men—led by Professor Charles Xavier—and the Brotherhood, a band of powerful mutants organised under Xavier's former ally, Magneto.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-24
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Margaret
2011-09-30
Margaret
Overview: A young woman witnesses a bus accident, and is caught up in the aftermath, where the question of whether or not it was intentional affects many people's lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-30
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Jane Eyre
1996-01-20
Jane Eyre
Overview: After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-20
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Open House
2010-08-03
Open House
Overview: A murderous couple invade a woman's home and hold her captive in the basement.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-03
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A Bit of Light
2022-10-29
A Bit of Light
Overview: Ella, at almost forty, is forced to move back in with her father Alan. She's trying to stay sober having temporarily given up custody of her young daughters to her ex-husband Joseph and his new partner Bethan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-29
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Straight A's
2013-01-16
Straight A's
Overview: Pressured by his late mother's ghost to return home to the family he abandoned, a former addict grabs a bag of pills and a sack of marijuana and hits the road to Shreveport.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-16
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The Member of the Wedding
1997-01-29
The Member of the Wedding
Overview: In the last days leading up to her older brother's marriage, a young girl is forced to face realities and grow up quickly. A tender adaptation of Carson McCullers' classic novel, which has seen previous adaptations for both stage and screen.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-29
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The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
2003-05-20
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
Overview: Spike Lee's filmmaking career is examined in this partial making-of for the film 25th Hour (2002). Interviews with cast members from this film and his past successes give us an idea what kind of dedicated person he truly is.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-20
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Free Ride
2013-10-10
Free Ride
Overview: A single mom in the 1970s raises her two daughters and becomes involved in illegal drug trade to make a better life.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-10
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X-Men: Days of Future Past
2014-05-15
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Overview: The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods as they join forces with their younger selves in an epic battle that must change the past – to save our future.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-15
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True Spirit
2023-01-26
True Spirit
Overview: When the tenacious young sailor Jessica Watson sets out to be the youngest person to sail solo, nonstop and unassisted around the world, many expect her to fail. With the support of her sailing coach and mentor Ben Bryant and her parents, Jessica is determined to accomplish what was thought to be impossible, navigating some of the world’s most challenging stretches of ocean over the course of 210 days.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-01-26
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The Good Dinosaur
2015-11-14
The Good Dinosaur
Overview: An epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend.
Genres: Adventure Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-14
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Evolution X - The Making of X-Men
2003-02-11
Evolution X - The Making of X-Men
Overview: A four part documentary on the making of the first X-Men film, from pre-production, to principal photography, to post-production, and reflections on the film before production commenced on the sequel.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-11
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The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men - Making X2
2003-11-25
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men - Making X2
Overview: The making of the sequel to the first X-Men film, trying to make it bigger and better than the previous film, and the challenges that come with that goal
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-25
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X-Men: Premieres Around the World
2003-02-11
X-Men: Premieres Around the World
Overview: We find notes from Singer, Stan Lee, Stewart, McKellen, Berry, Mane, Davison, Romijn-Stamos, Paquin, Jackman, Janssen, and Marsden.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-11
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X2 Global Webcast Highlights
2003-11-25
X2 Global Webcast Highlights
Overview: In this piece, Michael Broidy of Fox Publicity sits with Bryan Singer, producers Ralph Winter and Lauren Shuler Donner, and actors Hugh Jackman, James Marsden, Anna Paquin, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Alan Cumming, Famke Janssen, Shawn Ashmore, Aaron Stanford, and Kelly Hu for an Internet-based chat. Each participant appears solo in this set of excerpts. They take queries from various international chat rooms and discuss a number of topics in this reasonably informative and interesting discussion.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-25
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Tell It to the Bees
2018-09-09
Tell It to the Bees
Overview: Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie in her surgery, she invites him to visit the hives in her garden and tell his secrets to the bees, as she once did. The new friendship between the boy and the bee keeper brings his mother Lydia into Jean's world.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-09
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The Irishman
2019-11-01
The Irishman
Overview: Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-01
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Furlough
2018-03-16
Furlough
Overview: In between caring for her mother, a young woman works part time at a prison. The rookie guard gets a chance to prove her mettle when she's tasked with accompanying a hell-raising inmate on an emergency furlough to visit her dying mother. But things soon spiral out of control, sending the pair on a hilarious, surprising, and ultimately touching road trip.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-16
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The Parting Glass
2018-06-24
The Parting Glass
Overview: A family dealing with their sister's death travel across country to collect her belongings and piece together their memories of the woman they lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-24
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True Blood. A Farewell to Bon Temps
2014-06-15
True Blood. A Farewell to Bon Temps
Overview: A documentary about the creation of one of HBO's most successful series.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-15
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X-Men: The Mutant Watch
2000-07-02
X-Men: The Mutant Watch
Overview: While Senator Kelly addresses a senate committee about the supposed mutant menace, we learn about the making of the movie, X-Men.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-02
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The Carrier
2012-04-27
The Carrier
Overview: A grieving mother, dealing with the loss of her philandering son, discovers a secret that will profoundly influence her life, the lives around her, and ultimately result in a new understanding of her son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-27
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Making 'The Irishman'
2020-11-24
Making 'The Irishman'
Overview: Join legendary director Martin Scorsese, and acting icons Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Al Pacino going behind the scenes of their universally acclaimed movie.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-24
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American Underdog
2021-12-25
American Underdog
Overview: The true story of Kurt Warner, who went from a stockboy at a grocery store to a two-time NFL MVP, Super Bowl champion, and Hall of Fame quarterback.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-25
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