How's this for a star trajectory? Born in the Canadian tundra, raised in the wilds of New Zealand, and landing as an adult in the even wilder locale of Los Angeles, Anna Paquin beat out over five thousand actresses for the part of Flora in her movie debut, The Piano (1993). Not only was she the second-youngest person ever to win an Oscar for her Piano part (and the only one from New Zealand), she also shocked the self-congratulatory Hollywood crowd with twenty silent seconds at the podium before making her acceptance speech. Since then she's been in a slew of successful flicks, including Jane Eyre (1996), Fly Away Home (1996), She’s All That (1999), X-Men (2000), and X2 (2003). But Anna finally shed her mainstream teen goody-two-shoes in 2008 with a starring role on the hit HBO vampire series True Blood, where she revealed her chest fangs for the first time in the episode "Cold Ground." And she liked it so much, she kept her shirt off for many episodes to come.