Moyer is a surname and may refer to:

• Charles Moyer, President of the Western Federation of Miners
• J. Keith Moyer, American newspaper publisher, editor and journalist
• Jamie Moyer, Major League Baseball pitcher
• John Moyer, bassist for the band Disturbed
• Jonathan H. Moyer, American historian of politics and contributor to Mormonism: A Historical Encyclopedia
• Paul Moyer, television broadcaster
• Stephen Moyer, British actor
• William Moyer, American author and activist

See also[link]

• Moyer Township, Minnesota
• Moyers (disambiguation)

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Stephen Moyer
Moyer at ComicCon, July 25, 2009
Born	Stephen John Emery (1969-10-11) 11 October 1969 (age 42) Brentwood, Essex, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1980s–present
Spouse	Anna Paquin (2010–present)

Stephen Moyer (born Stephen John Emery; 11 October 1969)^[1] is an English actor who has starred as vampire Bill Compton in the HBO series True Blood since 2008.^[2]

Early life and career[link]

Moyer was born in Brentwood, Essex. He attended St Martin's School, a comprehensive school in Hutton, Essex, and graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.^[3]

He became Brentwood Theatre's first patron in October 2007, especially supporting their "Reaching Out, Building On" campaign to help fund the 2008 completion of backstage facilities.^[4]

After graduating from LAMDA, Stephen Moyer worked in theatre for five years. He worked with the National Theatre of Wales, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Oxford Stage Company, work which included going on tour and playing Romeo in productions of Romeo and Juliet. He then made the transition to television and film.^[5]

Personal life[link]

On 5 August 2009, it was confirmed that Moyer had become engaged to Anna Paquin, who plays his character's love interest in the HBO series True Blood.^[6] They had been dating since filming the series pilot in 2007.^[7] On 21 August 2010, Moyer and Paquin married at a private residence in Malibu, California.^[8] They reside in Venice, Los Angeles.^[9]

Moyer has a son, Billy, born in 2000, and a daughter, Lilac, born in 2002, from previous relationships. It was announced on 17 April 2012 that Moyer and Paquin are expecting their first child together at Fall.^[10]

Filmography[link]

Film[link]

Television[link]

Awards[link]

• 2009 – Won, Satellite Award for Best TV Ensemble for True Blood
• 2009 – Won, Scream Award for "Best Actor in a Horror Movie or TV Show," for True Blood^[12]
• 2009 – Nominated, Teen Choice Award for "Choice Summer TV Star: Male," for True Blood^[13]
• 2010 – Nominated, Saturn Award for "Best Actor in Television" for True Blood
• 2010 – Nominated, Teen Choice Award for "Choice Summer TV Star: Male," for True Blood
• 2010 – Nominated, Scream Award for "Best Horror Actor" for True Blood
• 2010 – Won, Scream Award for "Holy Sh*t! Scene of the Year" for True Blood
• 2010 – Nominated, Satellite Award for "Best Actor in a TV Drama Series" for True Blood
• 2011 – Won, Saturn Award for "Best Actor in Television" for True Blood
• 2011 – Nominated, Scream Award for "Best Horror Actor" for True Blood

References[link]

External links[link]

• Stephen Moyer at the Internet Movie Database

Mia Kirshner
Kirshner in 2009, during interview
Born	(1975-01-25) January 25, 1975 (age 37) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1989–present

Mia Kirshner (born January 25, 1975) is a Canadian actress and social activist who works in movies and television series. She is best known for her role as Jenny Schecter on the cable TV series The L Word (2004–2009), and for her recurring guest role as Mandy on the TV series 24 (2001-2005).

Early life[link]

Kirshner was born in Toronto, Ontario, the daughter of Etti, a teacher, and Sheldon Kirshner, a journalist who writes for The Canadian Jewish News.^[1] Kirshner is a granddaughter of Holocaust survivors;^[2] her father was born in a displaced persons camp in Germany in 1946 and met Kirshner's mother, a Bulgarian Jewish refugee, in Israel.^[2] Kirshner's paternal grandparents were Jews from Poland.^[3][4] Kirshner had a middle class upbringing^[5] and attended Forest Hill Collegiate Institute but later graduated from the Jarvis Collegiate Institute. Kirshner studied Russian literature and 20th-century movie industry at McGill University in Montreal. Her younger sister, Lauren Kirshner, a writer, was involved in the I Live Here project.^[6]

Career[link]

Kirshner found a talent agent at the age of 12, and was acting professionally by the age of 15.^{[citation needed]} She made her film debut in 1993 in Denys Arcand's Love and Human Remains. She convinced her father to sign a “nudity waiver” to play a dominatrix.^[7] Kirshner won a Genie nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role.^{[citation needed]} The following year, she starred in Atom Egoyan's Exotica. In 1996, she appeared in The Crow: City of Angels.

Kirshner also appeared in the first three episodes of 24 as the bisexual assassin Mandy in 2001. She would later reprise the role for the second season's finale and in the latter half of the show's fourth season.^{[citation needed]} Also in 2001, Kirshner played Catherine Wyler, The Cruelest Girl in School, in Not Another Teen Movie. The character is primarily a spoof of Kathryn Merteuil (played by Sarah Michelle Gellar) in Cruel Intentions, and was partially based on Mackenzie Siler (played by Anna Paquin) from She's All That. In Marilyn Manson's music video for "Tainted Love", which was featured on the movie's soundtrack, she made a cameo appearance as her character Catherine Wyler.

In 2004, Kirshner was cast as author Jenny Schecter, a main character in the drama series The L Word. She remained with the show for all of the show's six seasons through 2009.^[8]

In 2006, she starred in Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia in which she plays the young aspiring actress, Elizabeth Short, who was mysteriously mutilated and murdered in 1947. While the film itself was critically panned, many reviews singled out her performance for acclaim.^{[9][10][11][12]} In 2010, Kirshner co-starred in the film 30 Days of Night: Dark Days which began filming in the fall of 2009.^[13] In 2010, she was cast as Isobel Fleming, a guest role on The Vampire Diaries.^[8]

In 2011, she voiced the title character in Bear 71, a National Film Board of Canada web documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.^[14][15]

On April 20, 2012, it was announced that Kirshner will join the new Syfy series Defiance. ^[16]

Philanthropy[link]

In October 2008, after 7 years in production,^[17] Kirshner published the book I Live Here,^[18] which she co-produced with ex-Adbusters staffers Paul Shoebridge and Michael Simons,^[19] as well as writer James MacKinnon. In the book, four different groups of women and children refugees from places such as Chechnya, Juárez, Burma and Malawi tell their life stories. The book features original material from well-known comic and graphic artists including Joe Sacco and Phoebe Gloeckner. It was published in the U.S. by Random House/Pantheon. It was supported logistically by Amnesty International, which will receive proceeds from the book. After the release of the book, the Center for International Studies at MIT invited Kirshner to run a 4-week course on I Live Here in January 2009.^[20]

In popular culture[link]

Kirshner was ranked #43 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2002.^[21] She and Beverly Polcyn were nominated for Best Kiss at the 2002 MTV Movie Awards for Not Another Teen Movie.^[22] In 2011 it was announced that Kirshner would be the face of Monica Rich Kosann's jewelry collection.

Filmography[link]

See also[link]

• The I Live Here Projects

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Mia Kirshner

• Mia Kirshner at the Internet Movie Database

For the American professor of neurobiology, see Eric Knudsen

Erik Kenneth William^{[citation needed]} Knudsen (born March 25, 1988) is a Canadian actor. He is perhaps best known for portraying Daniel Matthews in Saw II and Dale Turner in the CBS series Jericho.

Life and career[link]

Knudsen was born in Toronto, Ontario. In 1999 Knudsen got his first acting role as Alex Schreffler in the TV series Real Kids, Real Adventures. In 2001, Knudsen guest starred on The Guardian and appeared in three other episodes. He was nominated a Young Artist Award for his performance. In 2003, Knudsen starred in the TV series Mental Block.

He co-starred as Leroy "Lefty" in the film adaptation of Youth in Revolt, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, as Lucas "Crash" Wilson, who was the lead singer of fictional band Crash and the Boys.

Knudsen portrayed Robbie in the 2011 film Scream 4.^[1]

Knudsen plays Ryan in the upcoming film The Barrens, co-starring True Blood's Stephen Moyer to be released late 2012.^[2]

He is currently filming the new drama-action television show Continuum, as teen tech genius Alec Sadler along with Rachel Nichols and Victor Webster. ^[3]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Erik Knudsen at the Internet Movie Database
• Erik Knudsen Official Twitter
• Erik Knudsen Bio at CBS – Jericho
• Erik Knudsen Online Fansite

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Anna Paquin
at the 25th Annual Paley Television Festival, ArcLight Cinemas, Los Angeles, 13 April 2009
Born	Anna Helene Paquin (1982-07-24) 24 July 1982 (age 29) Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1993–present
Spouse	Stephen Moyer (2010–present)

Anna Helene Paquin (/ˈpækwɪn/; born 24 July 1982) is a Canadian-born New Zealand actress. Paquin's first critically successful film was The Piano, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1993 at the age of 11 – the second youngest winner in history.^[1] Her acting career took off almost half a decade later when she appeared in a string of successful films including She's All That, Almost Famous and the X-Men franchise.

Paquin has received critical acclaim for her role as Sookie Stackhouse in the HBO series True Blood, for which she won the 2008 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama.

Early life[link]

Paquin was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, the daughter of Mary Paquin (née Brophy), an English teacher and native of Wellington, New Zealand, and Brian Paquin, a high school physical education teacher, native Canadian. Paquin is the youngest of three children; she has two older siblings: a brother, Andrew, a director, born in 1977, and a sister, Katya, born in 1980,^[2][3] who is the partner of Green Party co-leader Russel Norman.^[4] Paquin's family moved to New Zealand when she was four. She attended the Raphael House Rudolf Steiner School until she was eight or nine.^[5] Her musical childhood hobbies in New Zealand included playing the viola, cello, and piano. She also participated in gymnastics, ballet, swimming and downhill skiing, though she did not have any hobbies related to acting.^[6][7]

While in New Zealand, Paquin attended Hutt Intermediate School from 1994–95. Having begun her secondary education in Wellington at Wellington Girls' College, she completed her high school diploma at Windward School in Los Angeles, where she moved with her mother following her parents' divorce in 1995.^[8] She graduated from Windward School in June 2000 and completed the school's community service requirement by working in an LA soup kitchen and at a special education center. She studied at Columbia University for one year, but has since been on a leave of absence to continue her acting career.

Career[link]

Child actress[link]

It was in New Zealand in 1991 that Paquin became an actress by chance. Director Jane Campion was looking for a little girl to play a key role in The Piano, set to film in New Zealand, and a newspaper advertisement was run announcing an open audition. Paquin's sister read the ad and went to try out with a friend; Paquin herself tagged along because she had nothing better to do. When Campion met Paquin—whose only acting experience had been as a skunk in a school play—she was very impressed with the nine-year-old's performance of the monologue about Flora's father, and she was chosen from among the 5000 candidates.^[7]

When The Piano was released in 1993 it was lauded by critics, won prizes at a number of film festivals, and eventually became a popular movie among a wide audience. Paquin's debut performance in the film earned her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at the age of eleven, making her the second-youngest Oscar winner in history after Tatum O'Neal.^[7] The Piano was made as a small independent movie and wasn't expected to be widely known, and Paquin and her family did not plan to continue in the acting circles.^[6] However, she was invited to the William Morris Agency, and she kept receiving offers for new roles. She systematically refused them, but she did appear in three commercials for the phone company MCI (now Verizon) in 1994.^[9] She later made a series of television commercials for Manitoba Telecom Systems in her birth city of Winnipeg.^[10] She also appeared as a voice in an audio book entitled The Magnificent Nose in 1994.

In 1996, she appeared in two movies. The first role was as young Jane in Jane Eyre. The other was a lead part in Fly Away Home playing a young girl who, after her mother dies, moves in with her father and finds solace in taking care of orphaned goslings.^[11]

As a teenager, she had roles in films including A Walk on the Moon, Amistad, Hurlyburly, She's All That and Almost Famous.

[edit] X-Men and beyond

Paquin returned to worldwide prominence with her role as the mutant superheroine Rogue in the Marvel Comics movie X-Men in 2000,^[1] its sequel X2 in 2003, and its third instalment, X-Men: The Last Stand, in 2006.

Paquin in 2006

In the fall of 2006, she completed filming Blue State. She was the executive-producer of the film, the film having been made by Paquin Films, a production company formed by both her and her brother, Andrew Paquin.^[12] In November 2006, she completed the film Margaret, which was released in 2011.

In 2007, Paquin received an Emmy Award^[13] nomination for Supporting Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie for her role as Elaine Goodale in HBO's made-for-TV movie Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, based on Dee Brown's best-seller. She also received Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations in similar categories.

In 2008, Paquin appeared as waitress Sookie Stackhouse in the HBO series True Blood, her first role in a TV series. The show is based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels by Charlaine Harris, set in the fictional town of Bon Temps, LA. Paquin won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Television Drama Series for her role in the show, and also won a Satellite Award in a similar category. She was also nominated for the same category in the 2009 Golden Globe Awards. The second season of True Blood premiered in the US in June 2009. Season three premiered in June 2010, and season 4 in June 2011.

In 2009, Paquin played Irena Sendler, a Polish woman hailed as a heroine of the Holocaust, in The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler, a CBS TV film biographical film based on the book Mother of the Children of the Holocaust: The Irena Sendler Story, by Anna Mieszkowska. The film was made in Latvia, and was a Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation for the network.^[14] Paquin's performance earned her a 2010 nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Film.

Paquin's film The Romantics, a romantic comedy with Josh Duhamel and Katie Holmes, was released in the US at selected theatres in September 2010.

Paquin was cast in a cameo role in Scream 4, which was released on April 15, 2011.^[15]

Her next film is Straight A's, co-starring Ryan Phillippe, due for release in 2012.

Theatrical career[link]

Paquin made her stage debut in 2001 in a production of The Glory of Living at the MCC Theater in New York City. She won a 2001–2002 Theatre World Award for her performance.^[16] She has since appeared in a number of other plays, but only once outside the USA, when she appeared on the West End stage in London in a production of This is Our Youth in 2002.

Personal life[link]

Paquin with husband and True Blood costar Stephen Moyer, 2009

On 5 August 2009, it was announced that Paquin was engaged to her True Blood co-star Stephen Moyer, whom she had been dating since filming the series pilot in 2007.^[17][18] On 21 August 2010, Paquin and Moyer married at a private residence in Malibu, California.^[19] Through her marriage to Moyer, Paquin has a step-son, Billy, born in 2000, and a step-daughter, Lilac, born in 2002.^[20] Paquin and Moyer reside in Venice, Los Angeles.^[21] On 17 April 2012, it was announced they are expecting their first child together, due in the fall.^[22]

On 1 April 2010, Paquin came out as bisexual in a public service announcement for the Give a Damn campaign as part of the True Colors Fund, an advocacy group organised by Cyndi Lauper dedicated to LGBT equality.^[23] The True Colors Fund was created to “inspire and engage everyone, especially straight people, to become active participants in the advancement of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender equality” ^[24]. The video features Anna Paquin stating, "I'm Anna Paquin. I'm bisexual, and I give a damn". ^[25] When asked about her participation in the video, Paquin responded by saying, "It wasn't like it was a big secret, it was just a cause I cared about and privately supported, but not one that I had ever had an opportunity to speak out about in a way that would be useful. Obviously I know that one person's voice doesn't necessarily do that much, but I just wanted to do my bit." ^[26] Anna also supports other charities and foundations such as the Children's Hospital Los Angeles and the Make-A-Wish Foundation. ^[27]

Filmography[link]

Theatre credits[link]

• The Glory of Living; MCC Theater, New York, 2001 – Lisa (Won Theatre World Award (Outstanding Actress) in 2002 for the role)
• This is Our Youth; Garrick Theatre, London, 2002 – Jessica Goldman (nominated for Drama Desk Award (Outstanding Actress) for the role)
• Manuscript (Reading); Falmouth Academy, New York, 2003 – Elizabeth Hawkins
• Drug Buddy (Reading); Manhattan Theater Club, 2003 – Wendy
• Roulette; Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York, 2004 – Jenny
• The Distance From Here; MCC Theater, New York, 2004 – Shari (Won Drama Desk Award (Outstanding Cast Ensemble) in 2004)
• The 24 Hour Plays, South Of The Border; MCC Theater, 2004 – Maylene
• After Ashley; Vineyard Theatre, New York, 2005 – Julie Bell
• Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead; (Reading); Westside Theatre, New York, 2005 – Marcy
• The 24 Hour Plays, The Blizzard; MCC Theater, 2006 – Jenny

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Anna Paquin

• Anna Paquin at the Internet Movie Database
• Anna Paquin at Emmys.com