Paquin saddles up for HBO Western

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Paquin saddles up for HBO Western By Nellie Andreeva
Wed Sep 6, 2:51 AM ET


LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - 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 U.S. 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.

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Beach sinks teeth into "Heart" for HBO

Thu Sep 07, 4:12 AM ET


Adam Beach has landed a lead role in HBO's original movie "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee," which chronicles how American Indians were displaced as the U.S. expanded west during the latter half of the 19th century.

Beach will play American Indian writer-activist Charles Eastman, who worked ceaselessly to promote the well-being of American Indian tribes and is considered a major force in interpreting the legacy of the American Indian tradition.

Raised traditionally as a Woodland Sioux, Eastman went to Dartmouth and Boston University medical school. He became a highly literate physician who was the only doctor available to the victims of the Wounded Knee massacre in 1890. He went on to publish a series of successful books.

Beach is getting some early buzz for his performance in Clint Eastwood's war drama "Flags of Our Fathers," which opensnext month. The actor also co-stars in "Comanche Moon" -- Larry McMurtry's upcoming miniseries for CBS.

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