By Glenn Kenny
Special to MSN Movies
They're beautiful, they're hot, they're studly. In some cases they're screen
icons. The following stars are known by many as cosmetics-and-fashion-promoting
beauties, barrier-breaking cable stars or top liners in big-ticket (and
sometimes cheeseball) action movies. Their current (or remembered) on-screen
incarnations sometimes lead us to forget — they're also Oscar winners!
Anna Paquin (1993)
You may know her as Sookie Stackhouse, the feisty, and frequently unclothed,
Southern telepath vampire-battler in the HBO series "True Blood." But the
now-thirty-year-old Paquin is, in real life, from a different southern region —
while born in Canada, she was largely raised in New Zealand, and it was there,
at around the age of ten, that she was cast in the role of Holly Hunter's young daughter in the
Jane Campion movie "The Piano." She won a Best Supporting Actress award
for her work in that movie. She was the second-youngest winner of an Oscar (the
youngest was Tatum O'Neal for "Paper Moon"). She
resisted acting for a bit after that, but then capitulated, and wound up in a
couple of X-Men movies and more before "True Blood" came
along.
Bing: Watch a trailer for 'The Piano' | See photos of Anna Paquin
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