Four newcomers-Ryan Gosling, Anna Paquin, Michael Cera and Seth Rogen - make the list of the Top 15 Canadians who make things happen in Hollywood, in the issue of Canadian Business hitting newsstands today.

TORONTO, Sept. 20 /CNW/ - Jim Carrey’s The Number 23 may have stunk up theatres, but it wasn’t enough to knock him off the top of Canadian Business’s third annual ranking of Canadian actors with Hollywood clout. He’s joined by four newcomers: Ryan Gosling; Winnipeg-born Anna Paquin, who will co-star with Matt Damon in the film Margaret; Michael Cera, the Brampton, Ont.-raised star of Superbad; and Cera’s co-star, Vancouver’s Seth Rogen, who also co-executive produced and co-wrote the tale of high-school friends trying to score booze for a party.

This year, the list said goodbye to Hayden Christensen, Eric McCormack, Brendan Fraser and singer Avril Lavigne, whom Canadian Business disqualified given her lack of film roles.

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I don’t know where Anna placed yet but I will hopefully know where she placed soon.

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14: Anna Paquin

Box office/TV-ratings rank: 1
Salary rank: 15
Web-hits rank: 13
TV-mentions rank: 12
Press-hits rank: 15

”Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” star Anna Paquin may have been the second youngest person in history to take home an Oscar at age 11, but when it comes to reliving her 30-second speech of silence and air gulping, the sweet star would rather recoil.

“I refuse to watch it — I won’t ever bring myself to see that again,” Paquin admitted to FOX on the red carpet of Friday’s Emmy Nominees party. “I must have seemed so silly!”

And if you think no career honor could ever top an Oscar, think again.

“My Emmy nomination probably means even more to me,” Anna added. “I was just a baby in the ‘The Piano’ — I turned up to work and did what I was told. But now that I’m an adult I can appreciate things much more. I feel like I actually earned it this time.”

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Will Anna Paquin unearth an Emmy for her turn in ‘Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee’?

Raise high the roof beams, Hollywood carpenters! Anna Paquin is moving to Los Angeles.

The actress, who at age 11 won a best supporting actress Oscar for her first film, “The Piano,” is nominated for an Emmy for best supporting actress in a miniseries for her turn in HBO’s “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.” Paquin, now 25, will also be starring in Alan Ball’s new show “True Blood,” which was recently picked up by HBO.

“My brother and his fiancé and I all pitched in and bought a place,” Paquin said on a phone call from her current residence in New York. “I’m getting sick of crashing on couches and hotel rooms, so it will be nice to have an actual place.”

Paquin’s talent is unusual. She’s not always likable (she played annoying like nobody’s business in Spike Lee’s “The 25th Hour”), nor always high minded (see “X-Men” I, II and III). But so what? She’s been memorable in nearly everything she’s done.

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Emmy-Nominated Anna Paquin Recalls Awfulness of Oscar Win

Anna Paquin plans to be in L.A. for the Sept. 16 Emmys, but gives the impression she’s not particularly looking forward to the event.

The 25-year-old actress, who earned an Oscar at age 11 for “The Piano,” is up for Emmy honors for her role as Elaine Goodale in HBO’s “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.” She doesn’t expect to win and doesn’t even plan to prepare an acceptance speech.

“Why set yourself up for disappointment?” says Paquin, who recalls how it felt when she was called to the stage to accept her “Piano” Oscar. “I was terrified. I was a very shy, very, very young 11. I don’t think I had ever seen so many people at one time and to have them all sitting there waiting for me to say something … It was awful.”

She doesn’t think the Emmys will be any better. “It will probably be more fun to just sit in the audience and clap for the winner. It’s nice to be acknowledged — that’s enough for me.”

She goes on to say she hasn’t yet seen the Emmy-nominated work of the competing actresses (Greta Scacchi for “Broken Trail,” Samantha Morton for “Longford,” Toni Collette for “Tsunami, The Aftermath” and Judy Davis for “The Starter Wife”). She notes, “It’s odd that I’m being honored for television, because I have so little connection to the medium. I don’t even own a TV, though I plan to someday get cable.”

That would be nice, real nice, because she’s going to have a firm attachment to cable soon, real soon — as star of Alan Ball’s “True Blood,” a series set in small-town Louisiana, about vampires who co-exist with humans by drinking synthetic blood. In the HBO series, which starts production late next month in L.A., Paquin will play a waitress who winds up falling for a vampire played by Stephen Moyer. “I’m extraordinarily excited. It’s really cool and funny and done like no one does but Alan Ball,” she says of the creator of the wonderful, quirky “Six Feet Under.”

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Hey guys, I just added a transcript of the Gold Derby Chat that Anna took part in just a short while ago. The chat itself didn’t last very long but it was fun. You can read it here.

Not so long ago, Anna Paquin fretted she might have a career confined by a corset.

“For the first couple of years of my career, I thought I would be doing corset movies the rest of my life,” says Paquin, 24, whose credits include period pieces like “The Piano,” “Jane Eyre” and now HBO’s “Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee,” which premieres Sunday

But time and puberty took away some of her fears.

“The best thing about growing up on film is that you can’t do the same (roles) over and over because you are always (growing physically),” she says.

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Every once in a while, a movie comes along where the chemistry between the lead actor and actress is so strong that it’s hard to believe that they’re not a couple in real life. That’s certainly the case with Marshall Lewy’s Blue State, premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival. In the romantic political comedy, Breckin Meyer plays John Logue, a left-wing political blogger and John Kerry supporter, who leaves the country in protest of the Bush reelection, while Anna (X-Men) Paquin plays his beautiful and boisterous travel partner who has her own reasons for going to Canada.

Blue State is very much in line with other movies that have played at past Tribeca Film Festivals, including political films like The F Word and the Al Franken doc God Said, as well as road movies like Transamerica and last year’s Snow Cake.

One quickly realizes why it’s rarely a good idea to do a phone interview with two people at once, as Breckin and Anna spent a bit of time catching up before ComingSoon.net jumped in with a few questions about the movie they made together. (And if it feels like there’s any sort of sexual tension in this interview, than it certainly wasn’t coming from us!)

ComingSoon.net: Anna, you’re a producer on this movie, so did you know Marshall beforehand or how did this script come your way?
Anna Paquin: Yeah, I did. Marshall and my brother went to college together, so they’ve been buddies for a really long time. I knew him through my brother, and the script came about, and we all decided we wanted to do it, and so we did. (giggles)

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Source: ComingSoon.Net