Anna Paquin has been turning in solid work ever since her Oscar-winning performance as a child in The Piano. She’s worked steadily, most notably as Rogue in the X-Men movies and a small but interesting part in the often overlooked Spike Lee film The 25th Hour. It was no surprise to me that Paquin would end up doing a television show. There’s no shame in it, after all. Lots of Oscar-winners are finding juicy work in television, like Marcia Gay Harden and William Hurt on FX’s “Damages”, or Paquin’s Piano co-star Holly Hunter on TNT’s “Saving Grace”.

Paquin’s turn to television is HBO’s “True Blood”. It’s a strange but effective time for a television show about vampires, considering the craze for all things blood-sucker in books and movies. I haven’t seen the show, but I’ve seen a couple of interviews with the show’s British star (and head vampire) Stephen Moyer. What is it with Brits playing vampires these days?

Anyway, Moyer is really cute. He looks like the kind of guy I would have gone for in college (slender, good jawline, intense eyes), but he’s 37 years old! I would have pegged him at mid-twenties. Good bones, I guess. It looks like he’s Anna Paquin’s type too – the two are now dating, as Moyer confirmed to TV Guide magazine.

For any True Blood fan, the relationship between the show’s lead characters, Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) and Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) is about as hot as it gets–even by HBO standards!

Now, it looks like the actors have taken that chemistry from the scripted page to real life!

“We are together,” Moyer confirmed to TV Guide Magazine. “It’s just exciting and that was there from day one. “We always take the piss out of each other and are silly with each other and it is great. We’re very, very happy. She’s the best.”

On the show, the tall dark and British Moyer, 37, plays a century-year-old vampire who has come back to live in a small Lousiana town and falls in love with the mortal and virginal Sookie (Paquin), a small town waitress with an ability to read people’s minds.

In real-life, Moyer and Paquin, 26, are living together here in the states, however Moyer splits his time between L.A. and London, where he has two young children from a previous relationship.

The couple’s real-life romance first sparked at the True Blood audition, but the pair decided to wait to go public. “The reason it was dodged last year was very intentional on both our parts,” Moyer says. “It was very important to me that the cast and crew we were working with didn’t feel it was fickle, and didn’t feel it could possibly potentially encroach on our lives, you know, just like, ‘Oh the two stars are having a thing.’ We didn’t want to take anything away from the show. The show is the star, not the two people having a relationship.”

From OK! Magazine

He’s sounds like a nice guy, but maybe a little… famewhoring? This is one of those rare times where the guy is gushing to the press about his relationship, and it makes me a little uncomfortable. But it seems like they make each other happy, so God bless. I wonder if he bites her in bed.

Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer are shown at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on 2/22/09. Credit: WENN