Anna Paquin is a Canadian-born actress who has provided voice work for English-language adaptations of animated films, including notable titles in the anime genre. Born on July 24, 1982, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, she began her acting career as a child and gained international recognition early on, winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 1993 film The Piano. This early success established her as a prominent live-action actress, a career that includes roles in the X-Men film series as Rogue and the television series True Blood.

Paquin's involvement in anime voice acting is primarily defined by two prominent roles in the 2000s. She voiced the character Sheeta in the English dub of Hayao Miyazaki's classic Studio Ghibli film, Castle in the Sky. Contrary to the film's original 1986 release, her voice work was recorded for the Disney-produced English dub, which was released in 1998. Her performance as the kind and resilient princess Sheeta is one of her most recognized voice roles. She later took on the voice role of the young inventor Ray Steam in the 2004 English dub of the Japanese animated film Steamboy, directed by Katsuhiro Otomo.

These two performances constitute her major roles in English anime dubs. Her work in this field represents a small but notable part of her broader career as an actress. Outside of anime, her voice acting credits also include the character Ramsey in the Pixar film The Good Dinosaur and a guest role in the animated television series Phineas and Ferb. Her contributions to anime are those of a live-action film and television actress lending her voice to high-profile English adaptations of acclaimed Japanese works.