Leading lady Anna Paquin and beau celebrate return of hit vampire show

2009-04-14 It was one of the hit US TV series to premiere last year, and soon Golden Globe-winning vampire drama True Blood will be back on the small screen as the second series gets underway in June.

And in celebration the stars of the show, on-and-off-screen couple Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer, helped fete its return at a special screening in Beverly Hills on Monday.

Winnipeg-born Oscar-winner Anna – who became the second youngest actress to win the award for her debut performance in The Piano aged 11 – and her English beau head up the cast of the series, which is based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries book series by Charlaine Harris.

Set in a fictional town in northern Louisiana, True Blood stars Anna as Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress working at a bar who falls in love with a vampire, Bill Compton. The series, which earned its leading lady a Best Actress Globe gong earlier this year, follows the co-existence of humans and vampires.

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