Do we like Anna Paquin?
Our score: 8 out of 10. A clean record on harm, a public record of backing LGBTQ+ equality and speaking up for others, and a search that found little else to mark against her.
Paquin is the kind of story Hollywood loves and rarely handles well. Born in Winnipeg in 1982, she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for The Piano at 11, the second-youngest winner ever. She then spent three decades working, with the X-Men films and a Golden Globe for playing Sookie Stackhouse in True Blood.
Her most pointed public moment on the industry came in 2017. When Ellen Page accused director Brett Ratner of sexually harassing her on X-Men: The Last Stand, Paquin tweeted that she had been there and Page was telling the truth. Asked why she'd stayed quiet, she pointed to “this victim grooming industry since before I hit puberty.” Warner Bros. cut ties with Ratner after other women came forward, though the article didn't carry a response from him.
On the harm test, the search came up clean. Nothing turned up on her and trans people, women, migrants, vaccines or the climate, and no harmful co-stars or studios stood out, though her recent work is thinly covered. What the record does show is that she came out as bisexual in 2010 while promoting the Give a Damn equality campaign, and she has defended that identity when trolls took shots at her.
Her recent work is mostly in comedy and drama on her own terms. Flack, the dark comedy about a London PR firm, had her playing a publicist, and reviewers noted she seemed to be having fun with it. We couldn't find a fresh 2026 project, and the gossip-site stories about retirement and splits that floated around this year were marked false by the site that ran them.
The latest is a decent one. In August 2026 she posted to former child stars that they are “worthy of support no matter how our industry made us feel.” She later edited the caption to say she meant children treated as sexual objects too early. It reads like someone who lived it and wants to look after those coming behind her.
We found no court case against her, and no allegation from an established outlet. The record is honestly thin on the nasty stuff, which is a good sign. Add her track record with LGBTQ+ equality and standing up for a colleague, and she's an easy yes.