Anna takes home the Globe

(Anna Paquin with her Golden Globe - please, no naughty sniggering - for True Blood, based on Charlaine Harris’ novels, poses with Star Trek’s Zachary Quinto and Chris Pine) On the TV front it was slim pickings for the fantastic genres at the Globes (after several years of shows like Lost, Galactica and Who trumping many TV awards lists we seem to be in a little trough for the genre as far as awards go at the moment) - The John Adams biopic mini-series again hogged the TV categories (as it has in several other awards, especially in the US), with the only show flying the flag for telefantasy being True Blood, which is based on Charlaine Harris’ lovely series of Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries (small town waitress with psychic powers has complicated relationship with Bill, a member of the recently outed vampire community now living openly in human society), which I have a bit of a soft spot for - The X-Men’s Anna Paquin took the Best Actress (drama) award for her role as Sookie.
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Anna Paquin, who won as best actress in a TV drama for the vampire series "True Blood," looked dazed as she sat at a table waiting to dig into some steaming chicken. Grilled scallops, rice, macaroni and cheese and beef tenderloin rounded out the menu.
"I'm loopy, and the adrenaline has started to wear off. Now I'm just hungry," said Paquin, happy she didn't have to be at work the next day until
7 a.m.
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Meanwhile, the best thing about the HBO vampire series True Blood is definitely its star, Anna Paquin, so it's great to hear that she won the Golden Globe for best actress in a television drama. She, too, was up against stiff competition, including Sally Field, Mariska Hargitay, and Kyra Sedgwick.

Paquin won a supporting-actress Oscar at age 11 for The Piano (1993), but this is her first Golden Globe win after two nominations. How are things different now from her Oscar win? "I'm old enough to drink and stay up past 10," Paquin said. We'll be seeing more of Paquin's performance as Sookie
Stackhouse: True Blood was renewed for a second season in November.
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Paquin won Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series for her role as Sookie Stackhouse, who has the ability to hear people's thoughts.
'This is awesome I'm so excited," she said before going on to thank an army of people.
True Blood, based on the Southern Vampire book series, is a drama featuring vampires who drink a synthetic blood that allows them to live among mortals in a small Louisiana town.
Paquin stepped into the spotlight when she won a best supporting actress Oscar at age 11 for her role in the Jane Campion film The Piano.
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