49 Facts About Elliot Page

Elliot Page's accolades include nominations for an Academy Award, three British Academy Film Awards, a Golden Globe Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Elliot Page's breakthrough came with leading roles in the films Hard Candy and X-Men: The Last Stand.

Elliot Page received critical acclaim for portraying the title character in the film Juno, and became the fourth-youngest nominee for the Academy Award for Best Actress at the time.

Elliot Page produced and starred in the film Freeheld, hosted the Viceland documentary series Gaycation, and directed There's Something in the Water.

Elliot Page plays Jodie Holmes in the video game Beyond: Two Souls and Vanya Hargreeves in the Netflix series The Umbrella Academy.

In 2014, Elliot Page was included in The Advocates annual "40 Under 40" list.

Elliot Page has strongly spoken out against discriminatory legislation towards the trans community and has become a vocal advocate for LGBTQ rights.

Elliot Page was born on February 21,1987, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Martha Philpotts, a teacher, and Dennis Elliot Page, a graphic designer.

Elliot Page was assigned female at birth and went by his given name, Ellen, prior to transitioning in 2020.

Elliot 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.

In 2002, Elliot Page starred as Joanie in the film Marion Bridge, which is noted for being his first feature-film role.

In 2004, Elliot 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.

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 Elliot Page "manages to be both cruelly callous and likable" and gives "one of the most complex, disturbing and haunting performances of the year".

In 2006, Elliot Page appeared in X-Men: The Last Stand as Kitty Pryde, a girl who can walk through walls.

Elliot Page won a Canadian Comedy Award, an Independent Spirit Award, and a Satellite Award for the role, as well as numerous critics awards, including Detroit Film Critics Society, Austin Film Critics Association and Florida Film Critics Circle.

Elliot Page won the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress in a Canadian Film, among other accolades.

In 2008, Elliot 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.

Elliot Page played Ariadne, an architecture student who is a newcomer to dream espionage.

The cast, including Elliot Page, earned several accolades, with Elliot Page earning nominations from the Saturn Awards and the MTV Awards.

Elliot Page starred in the 2010 black comedy superhero film Super, which he accepted after seeing the script for the film.

The film received mixed reviews, though Elliot Page was praised for his performance as a psychopathic teenage sidekick.

In January 2010, Elliot Page began appearing in a series of advertisements for Cisco Systems, including commercials set in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.

Elliot 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".

In June 2012, Quantic Dream announced the video game Beyond: Two Souls, in which Elliot Page portrays one of the main player characters, Jodie Holmes, through voice acting and motion-capture acting; it was released on October 8,2013, in North America.

Elliot Page was given various awards and nominations for the role, including the British Academy Games Award for Best Performer.

Elliot Page accused the production for using his likeness without permission for the character Ellie; the character's appearance was redesigned to better reflect the actual performer's personality and make the character younger.

In 2014, Elliot Page reprised his role as Kitty Pryde in X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Elliot 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.

In December 2014, Elliot Page portrayed Han Solo in a staged reading of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.

In 2015, Elliot Page starred in and produced the film Freeheld, about Laurel Hester, which was adapted from the 2007 short film of the same name.

In 2016, Elliot 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.

On November 9,2017, it was announced that Elliot Page had been cast in the main role of Vanya Hargreeves in the Netflix superhero series The Umbrella Academy.

Elliot Page headlined the science-fiction film Flatliners, a remake of the 1990 film of the same title which was released in 2017, emerging as a commercial success.

In 2019, Elliot Page starred in the Netflix miniseries Tales of the City as Shawna Hopkins, which received positive reviews.

In September 2021, Elliot Page launched a production company, Elliot Page Boy Productions, and appointed Matt Jordan Smith to serve as Head of Development and Production.

Elliot Page was praised for his performance in the latter, winning an award at the 2023 Calgary International Film Festival.

In January 2025, it was announced that Elliot Page would be developing a television adaptation of Beyond: Two Souls after his production company acquired the rights from Quantic Dream.

Later that same month, it was announced that Elliot Page would reunite with Christopher Nolan for The Odyssey.

On February 14,2014, Elliot Page came out as a lesbian during a speech at the Human Rights Campaign's "Time to Thrive" conference in Las Vegas.

In 2014, Elliot Page was included in The Advocates annual "40 Under 40" list.

On December 1,2020, Page came out on social media as a trans man, specifying his pronouns as he and they, and revealed his new name, Elliot.

Elliot 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.

Elliot Page requested that Wynne Neilly photograph him for the cover because he wanted another transgender person to be the photographer.

Elliot Page had a relationship with Olivia Thirlby during the filming of Juno, and with Kate Mara, with whom he co-starred in Tiny Detectives and My Days of Mercy, in 2014.

Elliot Page is an atheist, and once said that religion "has always been used for beautiful things, and as a way to justify discrimination".

In 2008, Elliot Page was a self-described pro-choice feminist on abortion rights.

Elliot 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.

Elliot Page hosted the television documentary series Gaycation alongside Ian Daniel, which earned him two Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

Elliot 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.