Anna Paquin was only 11 years old when she won her Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress playing the role of Flora McGrath in 1993’s The Piano, and it wasn’t long after that when her acting career really took off in Hollywood. To date, she’s starred in some of the biggest blockbuster flicks, including the X-Men franchise and Scream 4, but her most notable work would probably be her six-year run on HBO’s True Blood.

Its first season premiered back in 2008 and became an instant hit for the network, who renewed the fantasy-mystery series for seven seasons before concluding in 2014. Fans were gutted by the news that the show was set to end, but it also seemed as if some of its lead stars were ready to pursue other projects, such as Alexander Skarsgard, who had multiple movie roles on the line, including a role in Zoolander 2.

What Happened To Anna Paquin?

True Blood was so successful, it even earned Anna a Golden Globe win for her work as Sookie Stackhouse in 2009, but since the show wrapped in 2014, it’s no secret that the actress hasn’t had that much luck landing anything as notable as her work on the HBO show.

When all was said and done, instead of focusing her attention back on the big screen, Anna kept her eye on television show pilots, which led her to take on the lead role in the Canadian series Bellevue, and while critics gave it plenty of praise, the CBC network still ended up canceling it after its first run.

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From there, Paquin turned her attention to Netflix where she starred in the series adaptation of Alias Grace, but yet again, it didn’t receive the same amount of attention her previous projects had received, with many viewers claiming the episodes felt very lackluster and unmemorable.

Considering that the Netflix project was a limited series, that evidently meant Anna would be back on the search for a new role to play once all was said and done, which must have been frustrating for her given that she found stability on True Blood for six years, which also allowed her to focus on other small projects on the side.

Now that the show is over, however, she’s struggled to find her place in Hollywood as the shows she’s been part of haven’t done tremendously well or only happened to be running for a short while.

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In an interview with Variety, the actress insisted that changing roles every few months is exciting because it allows her to embody a new character, saying: ”I have an endless appetite for new challenges. One of the great things about my job is that every few months you get to move on to the next thing.”

She failed to mention that not all roles come with lucrative deals — particularly if she’s working on a brand new show. Hence, the idea of having to move from project-to-project every few months isn’t always the best idea when trying to establish a sustainable role.

In 2014, Anna had reprised her role a Rogue for 2014’s X-Men: Days of Future Past, but by the time the film hit cinemas, the director, Bryan Singer, had cut most of her scenes out due to the movie already being too long for its theatrical version, which consequently meant she pretty much showed up to work for nothing.

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Though there was an expanded “Rogue Cut” assembled for home video, Rogue was barely seen in the official version that hit cinemas, which ended up making over $750 million at the box office. Her appearance in the film would have tremendously helped her star power after having just concluded the final series of True Blood at the time, but things simply didn’t work out as she expected.

Still, Anna went on to tell Yahoo that she was still happy to reunite with some of her former cast members seeing that she's known them since filming the first film back in 2000, which include the likes of Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, and many more.

Some of Anna’s recent TV projects include The Affair and Flack, while her line-up of work on the big screen has seen her make appearances in everything from Furlough, The Parting Glass, Tell It to the Bees, and the Martin Scorsese-directed flick, The Irishman, in 2019.

All in all, Anna is still booking roles here and there, but they’re just not as memorable as the characters she’s played in the past, which is why you probably haven’t come across her work in quite a long time.

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