Anna Paquin

Actor — X-Men, The Irishman, The Piano

Born

1982

Birthplace

WINNIPEG, MANITOBA

Citizenships

Canadianness Score

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4.0/ 5

Weighted across 2 scored criteria

Designation

Johnny Canuck 🦸

Canadian to the core. May have moved, but still calls everyone “bud”.

Scorecard

Path A — born on Canadian soil

I. Origin

Born on Canadian soil

WINNIPEG, MANITOBA

Canadian parentage

One Canadian parent

Citizenship on record

Automatic by birth

II. Residency

Formative years spent in Canada

Raised elsewhere

Lived in Canada by choice

Residency on record as an adult

Worked or filmed in Canada

No Canadian credits on file

III. Cultural evidence — not scored

Section III is recorded for the file only. Birth on Canadian soil already settles the matter.

Publicly claims to be Canadian

Has never brought it up

Canada claims them back

Claimed, enthusiastically

Fun fact

Youngest person ever to win a competitive Academy Award at age eleven, for a New Zealand film.

The verdict

Born in Winnipeg but moved to New Zealand at age four, where she grew up and won an Oscar at eleven for The Piano. Canada claims the birth certificate, but the Kiwis raised the talent — she's basically a commonwealth exchange student who made good.

Adjudicated by

The Standings Committee

Status

Final — appealable