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New Zealand actress Anna Paquin at the 2009 Golden Globe Awards - Source: Reuters -
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New Zealand actress Anna Paquin is engaged says People magazine's website.
Paquin, who stars in vampire television show True Blood, is engaged to her co-star from that show, Stephen Moyer.
Representatives for both actors have confirmed the engagement to People magazine.
The two have been in a relationship since February of this year.
Paquin, who plays telepathic Sookie Stackhouse on the show, was
just 11 years old in 1994 when she won the Best Supporting
Actress Oscar for her role as the precocious child in Jane
Campion's film The Piano.
Watch Paquin's acceptance speech from 1994.
The 26-year-old has since made several films, starred as Rogue in
the X-Men movies and won a Golden Globe for True Blood in 2008.
Moyer, from England, plays bloodsucking Bill Compton on the television series.
He is 39-years-old and has two children from previous relationships: A son, Billy, born in 2000, and a daughter, Lilac, born in 2002.