Elliot Page was born Ellen Grace Philpotts-Page on February 21, 1987, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He first acted on camera in 1997 at age ten, starring as Maggie Maclean in the CBC television movie Pit Pony. In 2002, Page starred as Joanie in the film Marion Bridge, which is noted for being his first feature film role. In 2007, he had his breakthrough role as the title character in the comedy-drama film Juno. Since 2019, he has portrayed Vanya Hargreeves in the Netflix series The Umbrella Academy. Page publicly came out as a gay woman in February 2014 and subsequently as transgender in December 2020.
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Elliot Page was born Ellen Grace Philpotts-Page on February 21, 1987, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He first acted on camera in 1997 at age ten, starring as Maggie Maclean in the CBC television movie Pit Pony. In 2002, Page starred as Joanie in the film Marion Bridge, which is noted for being his first feature film role. In 2007, he had his breakthrough role as the title character in the comedy-drama film Juno. Since 2019, he has portrayed Vanya Hargreeves in the Netflix series The Umbrella Academy. Page publicly came out as a gay woman in February 2014 and subsequently as transgender in December 2020, announcing his new name as Elliot Page. He also produced the film Freeheld, in which he also starred, and made his directorial debut with the documentary There’s Something in the Water. He provided voice acting and motion-capture acting for the main characters in the video game Beyond: Two Souls. Page portrayed Kitty Pryde in the X-Men films The Last Stand and Days of Future Past. He won an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, a Screen Actors Guild Award for Juno. He was nominated for several other awards, including Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture and Best Actress in a Supporting Role in Inception. He has also appeared in The Tracey Fragments, Whip It, Super, Inception, and Tallulah.
He is a member of the board of directors of the Canadian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts, which promotes Canadian film and television. He currently lives in Toronto, Ontario, with his wife and two children. He and his wife have a daughter, a son, and two step-daughters. They have a son and a daughter-in-law, both of whom live in the U.S. with their husband and step-daughter. They also have a step-son, who lives in New York City with his mother. They are expecting their first child, a boy, in the spring of 2015. They plan to have a second child in the fall of 2015, and hope to have more children in the future. They live with their parents in Toronto. They were married in 2003, and have two children, a daughter and a son-in law. They currently live in Toronto with their wife and three children. In 2005, Page received recognition for his role in the movie Hard Candy, where he portrayed Hayley Stark, a young girl who takes a pedophile hostage. In the same year, he was cast in the television series Trailer Park Boys in the recurring role of Treena Lahey, which he played for five episodes. For the role, he won the Austin Film Critics Association Award for best actress in 2006, among a number of other wins and nominations. In 2006, Page appeared in X- men: The Last stand as Kitty Pry de, a girl who can walk through walls.
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