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Anna Paquin – The Piano (1993)
The second youngest ever Oscar winner after Tatum O’Neal, Anna Paquin didn’t rest on her laurels after bagging her gong as a kid. The Canadian-born New Zealander’s résumé boasts plenty of big movies including: Jane Eyre, Fly Away Home, the X-Men series, Amistad and Almost Famous. Paquin appeared as the improbably-named Sookie Stackhouse in HBO’s wildly successful vampire series, True Blood. She’s currently filming The Irishman with Martin Scorsese.
We trawled through the Oscar archives and did a little digging on how the most famous Academy Award-nominated kids have fared since their red carpet strolls.
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