Ellen Page has received various accolades, including an Academy Award nomination, two BAFTA Awards and Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and a Satellite Award.
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Ellen Page received critical acclaim for portraying the title role in Jason Reitman's film Juno, and earned nominations for an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, a Critics' Choice Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance.
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Ellen Page has earned additional accolades and praise for roles in The Tracey Fragments, Whip It, Super, Inception, and Tallulah.
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Ellen Page has portrayed Kitty Pryde in the X-Men films The Last Stand and Days of Future Past, produced the film Freeheld in which he starred, and made his directorial debut with the documentary There's Something in the Water.
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Ellen Page provided voice acting and motion-capture acting for the main character in the video game Beyond: Two Souls, for which he received a BAFTA Games Award nomination.
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Ellen Page was born on February 21,1987, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Martha Philpotts, a teacher, and Dennis Ellen Page, a graphic designer.
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Ellen Page was assigned female at birth and used his birth name of Ellen prior to transitioning.
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Ellen Page first acted on camera in 1997 at the age of ten, starring as Maggie Maclean in the CBC Television movie Pit Pony, which later spun off into a television series of the same name that ran from 1999 to 2000.
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In 2002, Ellen Page starred as Joanie in the film Marion Bridge, which is noted for being his first feature-film role.
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In 2004, Ellen Page starred in the drama Wilby Wonderful, for which he won an award at the Atlantic Film Festival and was nominated for a Genie Award.
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The film was a critical and commercial success, and he received acclaim for his performance, with USA Today praising him for his role, stating that Ellen Page "manages to be both cruelly callous and likable" and gives "one of the most complex, disturbing and haunting performances of the year".
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In 2006, Ellen Page appeared in X-Men: The Last Stand as Kitty Pryde, a girl who can walk through walls.
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Ellen Page won the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress in a Canadian Film, among other accolades.
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In 2008, Ellen Page co-starred in the comedy-drama film Smart People, which premiered in January that year at the Sundance Film Festival, and received a mixed response from critics.
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The cast, including Ellen Page, earned several accolades, with Ellen Page earning nominations from the Saturn Awards and the MTV Awards.
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Ellen Page starred in the 2010 film Super, which he accepted after seeing the script for the film.
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In January 2010, Ellen Page began appearing in a series of advertisements for Cisco Systems, including commercials set in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
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Ellen Page noted the film as "one of the boldest screenplays I've come across in my albeit short career; it's a character and story I can throw myself into and exactly the type of movie I love to be a part of".
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In June 2012, Quantic Dream announced the video game Beyond: Two Souls in which Ellen Page portrays one of the protagonists, Jodie Holmes; it was released on October 8,2013, in North America.
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Ellen Page was given various awards and nominations for the role, including the British Academy Games Award for Best Performer.
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In 2014, Ellen Page reprised his role as Kitty Pryde in X-Men: Days of Future Past.
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Ellen Page was praised for his performance and was nominated for the Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Scene Stealer and the Kids' Choice Award for Female Action Star.
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In 2015, Ellen Page starred in and produced the film Freeheld, about Laurel Hester, which was adapted from the 2007 short film of the same name.
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In 2016, Ellen Page co-starred in the Netflix film Tallulah as the eponymous character; the film marked his third collaboration with director Sian Heder, and his second collaboration with Allison Janney, both of whom he worked with on Juno.
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Ellen Page headlined the science-fiction film Flatliners, a remake of the 1990 film of the same name which was released in 2017, emerging as a commercial success.
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In 2019, Ellen Page starred in the Netflix miniseries Tales of the City as Shawna Hopkins, which received positive reviews.
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In September 2021, Ellen Page launched a production company, Ellen Page Boy Productions, and appointed Matt Jordan Smith to serve as Head of Development and Production.
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In June 2022, Ellen Page revealed that he was writing a screenplay with his Mouth to Mouth co-star Beatrice Brown.
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Ellen Page was one of 30 celebrities who participated in a 2008 online advertisement series for US Campaign for Burma, calling for an end to the military dictatorship in Myanmar.
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Ellen Page is an atheist, having remarked that religion "has always been used for beautiful things, and as a way to justify discrimination".
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In November 2017, Ellen Page stated that he had been outed at age 18 by filmmaker Brett Ratner while on the set of X-Men: The Last Stand.
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Ellen Page's account was corroborated by co-star Anna Paquin, who said that she was present when Ratner made the comment.
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In 2014, Ellen Page was included in The Advocates annual "40 Under 40" list.
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On December 1,2020, Ellen Page came out as a trans man on his social media accounts, specified his pronouns as he and they, and revealed his new name, Elliot.
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Ellen Page explained that his decision to speak openly about his gender identity was partially prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and partially by the anti-transgender rhetoric in politics and the news cycle.
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Ellen Page requested that Wynne Neilly photograph him for the cover because he wanted another transgender person to be the photographer.
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Ellen Page hosted the television documentary series Gaycation alongside Ian Daniel, which earned him two Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
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Ellen Page additionally served as a voice and motion capture actor in the video game Beyond: Two Souls in 2013, garnering five award nominations, including a nomination for a British Academy Games Award for Performer in 2014.
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