Ellen Page

Biography of Ellen Page

Ellen Page (Elliot Page) was born on February 21, 1987 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Ellen Page is a Canadian actor and film producer. Page rose to fame in 2006's X-Men: The Last Stand; In 2007, Page received numerous awards for his role as 16-year-old schoolgirl Juno in the film of the same name. In late 2020, Page declared he was transgender and changed his first name to Elliot.

Page discovered acting at the age of ten. In the same year followed the first major role in the pilot of the Canadian television series Pit Pony. The portrayal of Maggie MacLean brought the first nominations for film awards. In 2005, Hard Candy attracted attention for the portrayal of Hayley Stark, a 14-year-old girl who made the acquaintance of an adult via the Internet who used this to stalk minors.

The blockbuster X-Men: The Last Stand led to an international breakthrough in the summer of 2006. Page was brought into the production by director Brett Ratner himself as the third cast member to play the character Kitty Pryde aka Shadowcat.

In 2007, Page starred in the Canadian production The Tracey Fragments, written by novelist Maureen Medved and directed by Bruce McDonald, who had previously worked with Page on the series ReGenesis. In An American Crime, Page took on the role of Sylvia Likens, who is being tortured to death by her foster mother, played by Catherine Keener. This film is based on a crime that caused a sensation in 1965 in the US state of Indiana.

The final breakthrough came with the role of the 16-year-old schoolgirl Juno in the film of the same name. This starring role alongside Michael Cera and Jennifer Garner follows a sharp-tongued teenage girl confronted with an unwanted pregnancy. In 2008, Page was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for this role.

In 2010, Page starred alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in the Heist movie Inception as the dream architect Ariadne. This was followed in 2012 by the role of seductive Monica, who almost causes a young couple to break up, in Woody Allen's To Rome with Love. In May 2014, she reprized her role as Kitty Pryde/Shadowcat in the film X-Men: Days of Future Past.

In the 2019 article Meet 15 Women Leading the Fight Against Climate Change, Time magazine listed Page as one of 15 women who have excelled in the fight against climate change and its social impacts. In March 2021, Page became the first transgender man to appear on the cover of Time magazine.

From 2015 to 2017, Page was in a relationship with artist Samantha Thomas. In January 2018, Page married dancer and choreographer Emma Portner, with whom Page had been dating since mid-2017. After the separation in the summer of 2020, the divorce followed in early 2021.

In 2014, Page came out as gay at a Human Rights Campaign conference in Las Vegas. Since then, as a representative of the Human Rights Campaign and in interviews, Page has spoken openly about the problems of life before coming out. Page feels comfortable playing gay characters (such as in Freeheld) and looks forward to more such opportunities. Nonetheless, Page finds it insulting that straight actors in homosexual roles are labeled as "brave" while their heterosexual roles are disregarded.