He was born in Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada on July 24, 1982 . She is the daughter of Brian Paquin , a Canadian school teacher of physical education and Mary Paquin ( née Brophy ) and English teacher born in New Zealand. He has a brother , Andrew (1977 ) , and a sister , Katya (1980). He moved to Lower Hutt in New Zealand four years old.
In New Zealand studied at Raphael House Rudolf Steiner School until eight years and then attended the academic year 1994-1995 at Hutt Intermediate School in Wellington. In 1995 , while he was filming Fly Away Home , her parents decided to divorce. When Anna was 15, she and her mother decided to move to Los Angeles to further his career as an actress. He finished high school at Windward School , obtaining his diploma in June 2000 and then moved to New York where he enrolled at Columbia University until he left a year later to focus on her acting career . Anna continued to live in New York until 2007 , because of the filming of True Blood , he moved to Venice (Los Angeles) .
In 2001 , it acquired New Zealand citizenship , so having dual Canadian and New Zealand nationality , although she has said that New Zealand is considered .
Although reluctant to discuss his private life is known to have dated actor Logan Marshall -Green from 2004 to 2005. Later that same year he began dating Kieran Culkin to 2007 , with whom he had worked in After Ashley and Margaret . She is married to her co-star Stephen Moyer of True Blood , we both started dating shortly after auditioning for the series, which were before the summer of 2007. No confirmed their relationship until February 2009 in an interview with U.S. magazine TV Guide and six months later they announced that they were engaged to be married in Malibu on August 21 of the following year . In March 2012 the couple announced that they would be parents, Anna giving birth in early September to a boy and a girl . On April 1, 2010 , as part of the advertising campaign "Give a Damn" to raise funds for an organization in favor of gay rights, publicly admitted being bisexual.
In 2008 it became known that his sister Katya was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2006 against that was fighting for his life. In 2009 he underwent his fourth surgery. That year in an interview about his portrayal of Irena Sendler in The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler Anna commented on the strength of Irena comparison with the situation of his sister : "It's a feeling of helplessness , but at the same time you have to be strong for other person , because if you 're scared , you can not compare how frightened she must be that person, " Anna Paquin .
Anna has repeatedly stated that it is considered a very athletic person and usually go swimming, boxing , running , riding a longboard ( skateboard longer ) , attends classes in Ballet and bike rides . His interests also include the point , is a follower of rugby and likes photography , plus can play the cello and piano and loves to sing . Addicted to coffee and work , as she would say workaholic, is considered and is a great lover of animals. He is a fan of independent music group Nine Inch Nails , Fiona Apple and The Beatles.
Over the years its beauty has been recognized on several lists of magazines like Teen People magazine in 2002 named her one of the 25 sexiest below 25 star Maxim magazine gave him 69th of the 100 people sexiest in 2001, ranked 50 in 20088 and 84 in 2010.9 as the Internet portal AskMen.com awarded position 71 among the 99 most desirable women of 200910 and 79th in 2010, also appeared in the the list of sexiest famous 2010 issue Playboy.Tiene a very visible diastema . He has two tattoos : an A on his right ankle and a small circle on his left wrist .