News > Paquin saddles up for HBO Western
September 7, 2006
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Oscar winner Anna Paquin is set to star opposite Aidan Quinn in the HBO movie Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, which chronicles how American Indians were displaced as the US expanded west during the latter half of the 19th century.
Paquin will play Elaine Goodale Eastman, a novelist, poet, journalist, editor, schoolteacher, and activist with considerable influence on 19th century American Indian education.
In 1885, she traveled west and opened a school on the Great Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, where she witnessed monumental events like the fallout from the Wounded Knee massacre in December 1890 and emerged as a voice for American Indian rights.
Production is slated to begin this month in Calgary, Canada. Wounded Knee will be executive produced by Law & Order creator Dick Wolf and Tom Thayer.
Canada-born Paquin won an Oscar for her supporting role in The Piano. On the big screen, she next appears in Kenneth Lonergan's Margaret and Marshall Lewy's Blue State, which she produced with her brother, Andrew Paquin.
