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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 has won the Golden Globe award for best actress in the television drama category for her role in HBO's True Blood.
True Blood is set in a small town in Louisiana in a world where thanks to the invention of synthetic blood, vampires no longer have to feast on humans.
Paquin plays the character of Sookie Stackhouse who has the ability to hear people's thoughts, so unlike many people in the town is open-minded about the integration of vampires.
Paquin says she had to fight for the role.
"I was the pale brunette from New Zealand, and I'm playing the southern tanned blonde, essentially a Hooters waitress," she told Variety Magazine of her character in the vampire television series True Blood.
"It wasn't the most obvious casting choice, but I just really wanted it and I didn't stop until they said yes."
Paquin first burst onto the scene at age nine when she appeared in Jane Campion's The Piano. She won Best Supporting Actress at the Academy Awards for her role as Flora, the daughter of a mute, Scottish immigrant.
Paquin was asked how her Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series stacked up against her Oscar win for The Piano in 1993.
"I don't even remember that, it was very blurry and crazy," she said. "This is quite blurry and crazy, too, but at least I'm old enough to drink and stay out past 10pm."
In 2008 Paquin was nominated for an Emmy for the TV movie Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
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