Episode 1309
Elliot Page
Wed, 2020-Dec-02 05:30 UTC
Length - 2:32
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With 1,482,018 views on Tuesday, 1 December 2020 our article of the day is Elliot Page.
Elliot Page (born Ellen Grace Philpotts-Page; February 21, 1987) is a Canadian actor and producer. He first became known for his role in the film and series Pit Pony (1997–2000), for which he won a Young Artist Award, and for recurring roles in Trailer Park Boys (2002) and ReGenesis (2004). Page also received recognition for his role in the film Hard Candy (2005), and won the Austin Film Critics Association's Award for Best Actress. Page publicly came out as gay in February 2014 and subsequently as transgender in December 2020, announcing his new name as Elliot Page. Page had his cinematic breakthrough with the title role in Jason Reitman's film Juno (2007), earning nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Critics' Choice Awards, a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He also earned praise for roles in The Tracey Fragments (2007), Whip It (2009), Super (2010), Inception (2010), and Tallulah (2016). Page has also portrayed Kitty Pryde in the X-Men films The Last Stand (2006) and Days of Future Past (2014), produced the film Freeheld (2015) in which he also starred, and made his directorial debut with the documentary There's Something in the Water (2019). Since 2019, he has portrayed Vanya Hargreeves in the Netflix series The Umbrella Academy.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 05:30 UTC on Wednesday, 2 December 2020.
For the full current version of the article, see Elliot Page on Wikipedia.
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