Episode 1484
Elliot Page
Wed, 2021-May-26 00:50 UTC
Length - 3:20
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With 339,278 views on Tuesday, 25 May 2021 our article of the day is Elliot Page.
Elliot Page (formerly Ellen Page; born February 21, 1987) is a Canadian actor and producer. He first came to recognition for his role in the television franchise Pit Pony (1997–2000), for which he was nominated for a Young Artist Award, and for his recurring roles in Trailer Park Boys (2002) and ReGenesis (2004). He had his breakthrough starring in the film Hard Candy (2005), for which he won an Austin Film Critics Association Award and received an Empire Award nomination.
Page garnered critical acclaim for portraying the title role in Jason Reitman's film Juno (2007), and earned nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Critics' Choice Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance. He earned additional accolades and praise for roles in The Tracey Fragments (2007), Whip It (2009), Super (2010), Inception (2010), and Tallulah (2016). He 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).
Page provided voice acting and motion-capture acting for the main character in the video game Beyond: Two Souls (2013), for which he received a BAFTA Games Award nomination. His later television credits include hosting the documentary series Gaycation (2016–2017), for which he was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards, and portraying Vanya Hargreeves in the Netflix series The Umbrella Academy (2019–present).
Page publicly came out as a gay woman in February 2014 and subsequently as transgender in December 2020. He is also recognized for his media image and activism, particularly towards LGBT youth and transgender rights. In March 2021, Page became the first openly trans man to appear on the cover of Time magazine.
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For the full current version of the article, see Elliot Page on Wikipedia.
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