Why does Anna Paquin have an accent?

On July 24, 1982, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Anna Hélène Paquin was born. Anna Paquin immigrated to the country as a teenager.

Paquin played the title character in a minor role in Franco Zeffirelli’s Jane Eyre (1996) when she was a little girl, and she also played the protagonist in the film Fly Away Home.

In the 1997 television movie adaptation of Carson McCullers’ book The Member of the Wedding, Paquin as Frankie Addams.

She also had a small part as the queen of Spain in Steven Spielberg’s 1997 film Amistad.

She portrayed teenagers in Hurlyburly (1998), She’s All That (1999), and A Walk on the Moon (1999), and in Almost Famous (2000), she played the groupie Polexia Aphrodisa.

Why does Anna Paquin have an accent?

Young Paquin relocated to New Zealand, where she picked up a Kiwi accent. She acquired a California timbre when she immigrated to the United States, yet she still has certain New Zealand inflections.