From Daily Record:
NEARLY 20 years ago she was the little girl who won an Oscar for her role in The Piano but now Anna Paquin is best known for cavorting with supernatural beings in vampire series True Blood.

The sexiest show on the box returns for a fourth series tomorrow and as always Anna, as telepathic waitress and fairy Sookie Stackhouse, is in the thick of the action.

And that action often means nudity and pretending to have sex.

This could be all the more embarrassing given her husband is also in the show. He’s Essex-born Stephen Moyer who plays 173-year-old vampire Bill Compton.

Sookie and Bill have had an on-off relationship and in the new series she will grow closer to another vampire, Eric, played by Alexander Skarsgard.

But Anna, 29, who is step mum to Stephen’s two children Billy, 11 and Lilac, nine, from two previous relationships, insisted there is no jealousy.

She said: “It would be too hard to imagine how I would feel if I walked in on him and he was with someone else for real.

“But in reality it’s not something that I actually feel, because it’s not real. It’s just the show.”

They met and fell in love on True Blood, which has been going since 2008.

Anna and Stephen’s characters had been together, but during the last series that relationship fractured and now they are spending more time getting to know other people.

Anna isn’t as happy with that side of it.

She said: “I really like spending as much time with him as possible.

“While the show isn’t our whole life, we have a life outside of the show, I certainly love getting to see my husband as opposed to being stuck in some random country in the middle of nowhere and not seeing him for five months.”

Although she’s making other films, True Blood has become Anna’s life. She’s currently filming the fifth series and is now best known as Sookie.

But, she has been famous almost all her life.

Born in Canada, she moved to New Zealand at the age of four, and in 1991 aged nine, went along with her sister to an open audition for a film.

Director Jane Campion was so impressed with Anna, despite her only acting experience being a skunk in a school play, that she picked her over 5000 others for The Piano.

The film is about a mute Scottish widow Ada McGrath (Holly Hunter) who takes her child Flora and a piano to New Zealand in 1852 to start a new life.

Anna won the best supporting actress Oscar in 1994 at the age of 11 – the second youngest winner in history after Tatum O’Neal.

Some would say that winning an Oscar at such a young age must be a burden.

She laughed: “Hell no. I have a career now. It’s awesome, I’m very grateful.

“No-one knew who I was, I was this little kid who did this one movie and suddenly I had a career.
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