Ellen Page

Ellen Grace Philpotts-Page[1] (born February 21, 1987)[2][3] is a Canadian actress and producer. Her career began with roles in television shows such as Pit Pony (1997-2000), Trailer Park Boys (2002) and ReGenesis (2004). Page starred in the film Hard Candy (2005), for which she won the Austin Film Critics Association's Award for Best Actress. Her breakthrough role was the title role in Jason Reitman's film Juno (2007), for which she received nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA, a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress and won the Independent Spirit Award, an MTV Movie Award and a Teen Choice Award.

For the English singer and actress, see Elaine Paige.

Ellen Page
Page in 2009
Born
Ellen Grace Philpotts-Page

(1987-02-21) February 21, 1987
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Occupation
  • Actress
  • producer
Years active1997–present
Spouse(s)
Emma Portner (m. 2018)
AwardsFull list
Websiteellen.page

Page played Kitty Pryde in the X-Men films (2006, 2014). She has starred in films such as An American Crime (2007), The Tracey Fragments (2007) – a role that won her the Vancouver Film Critics Award for Best Actress, Smart People (2008), Whip It (2009), Super (2010) and Inception (2010). Page also provided the voice, motion capture and likeness of Jodie Holmes in the video game Beyond: Two Souls (2013). In 2017, she was cast as Vanya Hargreeves in the Netflix series The Umbrella Academy.

Early life

Page was born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the daughter of Martha Philpotts, a teacher, and Dennis Page, a graphic designer.[4] She attended the Halifax Grammar School until grade 10, spent some time at Queen Elizabeth High School, and graduated from the Shambhala School in 2005. She also spent two years in Toronto, Ontario, studying in the Interact Program at Vaughan Road Academy, along with close friend and fellow Canadian actor Mark Rendall.[5][6] Growing up, Page enjoyed playing with action figures and climbing trees.[7]

Career
Page in 2007

Page first acted in front of the camera in 1997 at age ten in the CBC television movie Pit Pony, which later spun off into a television series. This led to more roles in several small Canadian films (including Marion Bridge, her first feature film role) and in television series, notably playing Treena Lahey in season two of Trailer Park Boys. At 16, she was cast in Mouth to Mouth, an independent film shot in Europe. Page starred in the 2005 movie Hard Candy as a young girl who takes a pedophile hostage, and won praise for "one of the most complex, disturbing and haunting performances of the year."[8]

Page appeared in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)[9] and X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) as Kitty Pryde, a girl who can walk through walls. In the previous X-Men movies, the part had been used in brief cameos played by other actresses, but never as a main character. Page was nominated for the Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Scene Stealer for the role.

Page portrayed the titular character in the 2007 film Juno. Film critic A. O. Scott of The New York Times described her as "frighteningly talented"[10] and Roger Ebert said, "Has there been a better performance this year than Ellen Page's creation of Juno? I do not think so."[11] Page was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress, but lost to Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose. The role, however, did win her more than 20 awards, including a Canadian Comedy Award, an Independent Spirit Award, and a Satellite Award besides the likes of numerous Critics awards including Detroit Film Critics Society, Austin Film Critics Association and Florida Film Critics Circle.

Page also co-starred in Smart People, which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Shot before Juno, but released afterwards, the film saw her playing the overachieving daughter to Dennis Quaid's college professor.[12] Page's other film credits include An American Crime, which premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival; The Tracey Fragments, which was released in November 2007 in Canada and May 2008 in the US; and The Stone Angel.

In 2007, she was attached to play the title character in an adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre[13][14] and had planned to work on an as-yet unmade film entitled Jack and Diane opposite Olivia Thirlby, with whom she co-starred in Juno,[15] but it was announced in August 2009 that her role in Jack and Diane would be played by the actress Alison Pill. Before his death in January 2008, Heath Ledger had discussed with Page the idea of starring in his directorial debut, The Queen's Gambit.[16]

In 2008, she was ranked #86 on FHM's Sexiest Women in the World list, and placed at #93 for 2009.[17] In June 2008, Page was listed in Entertainment Weekly's future A-List stars list.[18] Page hosted Saturday Night Live on March 1, 2008.[19] On May 3, 2009, she guest starred in the episode "Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh" of the animated series The Simpsons as a character named Alaska Nebraska, a parody of Hannah Montana.[20] She also starred in Drew Barrymore's directorial debut, Whip It, alongside Juliette Lewis, Marcia Gay Harden, Drew Barrymore and Kristen Wiig.[21] The film premiered at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival and had its wide release on October 2, 2009.[22]

Page (center) with the cast of Inception at the premiere in July 2010

She featured in Michael Lander's film Peacock, opposite Cillian Murphy, Susan Sarandon, Bill Pullman and Josh Lucas, which was released in 2010 despite an original release date of 2009.[23][24] In August 2009, Page began shooting the big-budget Christopher Nolan thriller Inception, alongside co-stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ken Watanabe.[25] The film was released on July 16, 2010.[26] She has starred in the film Super,[27] and was announced to be playing Stacie Andree in a film about Laurel Hester,[28] finally released in 2015 as Freeheld.

As of 2010, she serves as a spokesperson for Cisco Systems in a series of advertisements, appearing in three commercials set in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. On May 26, 2010, it was reported in a column on Deadline Hollywood and by Entertainment Weekly that Page would star in the HBO series Tilda alongside Diane Keaton, who was cast in the lead role. Tilda is based on the life of Nikki Finke, the founder of the influential Hollywood blog, DeadlineHollywood.com.[29] Tilda was reportedly dropped by HBO due to friction between the creators.[30] She is also the narrator of the documentary on colony collapse disorder, Vanishing of the Bees, directed by Maryam Henein.

In April 2011, it was announced that Page would co-star in the Woody Allen film To Rome with Love alongside Jesse Eisenberg, Penélope Cruz, and Alec Baldwin.[31] In June 2012, Quantic Dream announced a video game entitled Beyond: Two Souls in which Page and Willem Dafoe portray the protagonists Jodie Holmes and Nathan Dawkins, respectively. It was released on October 8, 2013, in North America.[32][33][34] Page reprised her role as Katherine "Kitty" Pryde in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014).[35][36] In February 2013, Page stated that her directorial debut would be Miss Stevens, and would star Anna Faris and be produced by Gary Gilbert, Jordan Horowitz and Doug Wald;[37][38] the project eventually moved forward without Page, with scriptwriter Julia Hart replacing Page as the director.[39] In December 2014, Page portrayed Han Solo in a staged reading of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.[40]

Page at the San Diego Comic-Con International in July 2013

Page co-starred in Zal Batmanglij's 2013 thriller The East, a film inspired by the experiences and drawing on thrillers from the 1970s, alongside Brit Marling and Alexander Skarsgård; Page replaced Felicity Jones, who had been attached to the project, but later dropped out.[41] The same year she starred in Lynn Shelton's Touchy Feely alongside Rosemarie DeWitt.[42] Page had two releases slated for 2015, Canadian drama film Into the Forest and Peter Sollett's Freeheld.[43] Page then starred in the 2016 film Tallulah alongside her Juno costar, Allison Janney.[44]

On November 9, 2017, it was announced that Page was cast in the main role of Vanya Hargreeves in the Netflix series The Umbrella Academy,[45] which was renewed for a second season in April 2019.[46] The same month, she and co-host Ian Daniel started filming There's Something in the Water, a documentary about environmental racism.[47] The film premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival.[48]

Personal life

In 2008, Page was one of 30 celebrities who participated in an online ad series for US Campaign for Burma, calling for an end to the military dictatorship in Burma.[49] She describes herself as a pro-choice feminist.[50] She attended Buddhist school in her youth and practiced meditation and yoga.[51] She practices a vegan lifestyle, and PETA named her and Jared Leto the Sexiest Vegetarians of 2014.[52] She is an atheist, having remarked that religion "has always been used for beautiful things, and also as a way to justify discrimination".[53]

On February 14, 2014, Page came out as gay during a speech at the Human Rights Campaign's "Time to Thrive" conference in Las Vegas.[54][55][56] In 2014, she was included as part of The Advocate's annual "40 Under 40" list.[57][58]

On November 10, 2017, Page alleged that filmmaker Brett Ratner outed her as gay on the set of X-Men: The Last Stand, when she was 18 years old, nearly a decade before she came out publicly.[59] In a long Facebook post, she expressed gratitude towards people who were breaking the silence against abuse, and expressed her frustration at the pattern of looking the other way in industry.[60] Fellow actress Anna Paquin expressed support for Page, stating she was present when Ratner made the comment.[60]

In January 2018, Page married dancer and choreographer Emma Portner.[61][62]

Filmography

Film
Key
Denotes works that have not yet been released
Year Title Role Notes
2002 The Wet Season Jocelyn Short film
Marion Bridge Joanie
2003 Touch & Go Trish
Love That Boy Suzanna
2004 Wilby Wonderful Emily Anderson
2005 Hard Candy Hayley Stark
Mouth to Mouth Sherry
2006 X-Men: The Last Stand Kitty Pryde
2007 An American Crime Sylvia Likens
Juno Juno MacGuff
The Tracey Fragments Tracey Berkowitz
The Stone Angel Arlene Simmons
2008 Smart People Vanessa Wetherhold
2009 Vanishing of the Bees Narrator Documentary
Whip It Bliss Cavendar / Babe Ruthless
2010 Peacock Maggie Bailey
Inception Ariadne
Super Libby / Boltie
2012 To Rome with Love Monica
2013 The East Izzy
Touchy Feely Jenny
2014 X-Men: Days of Future Past Kitty Pryde
Tiny Detectives Detective Ellen Short film
2015 Into the Forest Nell Also producer
Freeheld Stacie Andree Also producer
2016 Tallulah Tallulah
Window Horses Kelly (voice)
My Life as a Zucchini Rosy (voice) English dub
2017 My Days of Mercy Lucy Moro Also producer
The Cured Abbie Also producer
Flatliners Courtney Holmes
2019 There's Something in the Water Herself Documentary; also director[63][64]
TBA Naya Legend of the Golden Dolphin Dusky (voice) Post-production
TBA Robodog Izzy (voice) Post-production

Television
Year Title Role Notes
1997 Pit Pony Maggie Maclean Television film
1999–2000 Pit Pony Maggie Maclean Main cast
2002 Trailer Park Boys Treena Lahey 5 episodes
Rideau Hall Helene Episode: "Pilot"
2003 Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story Young Lisa Television film
Going for Broke Jennifer Television film
Ghost Cat Natalie Merritt Television film
2004 I Downloaded a Ghost Stella Blackstone Television film
ReGenesis Lilith Sandström 8 episodes
2008 Saturday Night Live Herself (host) Episode: "Ellen Page/Wilco"
2009 The Simpsons Alaska Nebraska (voice) Episode: "Waverly Hills, 9-0-2-1-D'oh"
2011 Glenn Martin, DDS Robot Assistant (voice) Episode: "Date with Destiny"
Tilda Carolyn Pilot
2012 Family Guy Lindsey (voice) Episode: "Tom Tucker: The Man and His Dream"
2013 Out There Amber (voice) Episode: "Ace's Wild"
2016–17 Gaycation Herself (host) Documentary series on Viceland; also executive producer
2019–present The Umbrella Academy Vanya Hargreeves Main cast
2019 Tales of the City Shawna Hawkins Main cast

Video games
Year Title Role Notes
2013 Beyond: Two Souls Jodie Holmes Also motion capture

Awards and nominations

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