Elliott Page

Until Juno , this girl with a round face, almond-colored eyes, alert air and a know-it-all expression had gone unnoticed by most of the public. However, despite her young age, the diminutive actress, only 1.55 meters tall, had a handful of more than interesting roles, although in most of them they are minority since they carry the banner of independent cinema . From what she looks like, she loves little stories about “normal” characters, inhabitants of small towns in the American geography.

Born female, Canadian Ellen Philpotts-Page was born in 1987 in Halifax, province of Nova Scotia (Canada). Her case is one of those in which her future seems engraved on her forehead. The daughter of a graphic designer and a teacher, the young Ellen had her first acting skirmishes at the Neptune Theater School and at just ten years old she got her first big role in the movie Pit Pony (1998) and the following year she reprized her character as Maggie. in the television series of the same name. The newcomer earned two Gemini Award and Young Artist Award nominations for her work. In 2001 she participated in another highly successful Canadian series, Trailer Park Boys . But probably one of the first milestones in her life was her work in the family dramaMarion Bridge (2002), starring Molly Parker ( Pure ). In that film he coincided with the actress Rebecca Jenkins , with whom she would later work again in Wilby Wonderful . But it was after the filming of that movie, when petite Ellen (who was 15 years old at the time) understood that acting was what she wanted to do for the rest of her life. And that he took it really seriously is seen when verifying how fruitful 2003 was. He participated in no more and no less than five films, including his first North American production, the dramatic biography Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story , together to Thora Birch . She also acted in the ghostlyMrs. Ashboro’s Cat , the humorous comedy Touch & Go , and the dramas Going for Broke and Love That Boy .

At the age of 17 his career began to take off in earnest. In addition to starring in the family comedy I Downloaded a Ghost , she was part of the cast of the notable tragicomedy Wilby Wonderful , by Canadian Daniel MacIvor , who also wrote the screenplay for Marion Bridge . In Wilby Wonderful , the actress played the daughter of Rebeccca Jenkins, in a delightful role, as a talkative teenager who begins to feel and suffer from her first love. Among other accolades, Ellen won Best Actress at the Atlantic Film Festival. She later worked on several chapters of the science fiction series ReGenesis, well received. And coinciding with her coming of age came one of her most emblematic roles, that of Hayley Stark, the apparently adorable and actually terrifying girl from Hard Candy . The film, of an internal violence difficult to bear, narrates the perfidious revenge of a girl against the man who killed a friend of hers. The film is practically a face to face between Ellen Page and Patrick Wilson ( Secret Games ) and won numerous international awards.

Ellen Page’s film preferences were clear up to that point. She could only be seen in “different” movies, small independent productions with realistic scripts. Actually, she has that profile for everything. Among her favorite films are François Truffaut’s The Four Hundred Blows and Terrence Malick ‘s Badlands . She is a fan of Kate Winslet , Catherine Keener , Samantha Morton , and Laura Linney , and enjoys listening to Radiohead, Björk, and Patti Smith .. But as if this were not enough, Ellen plays soccer. Just how she sounds. In fact, she was on her school team, in the midfield position. However, while retaining her “indie” look, her oval face and petite figure would soon become known to many viewers, thanks to her role as Kitty Pryde in X-Men 3: The Reckoning. end .

And not only should she have opened the eyes of the public in theaters, but also of the producers, since 2007 was a great year for her. She seems to have returned to her origins, in films of little bombast, but full of meaning. In Juno, she plays the main character Juno MacGuff, a young girl who gets pregnant, an unforgettable character, funny, intelligent, wise, who has managed to dazzle the public and critics. Dozens of nominations and awards have been her reward. The screenwriter of the film, Diablo Cody , has said about her: “Ellen very humble and declares that all of Juno’s character is in the script, but it is really her who made them her own.” And she specifies: “I would never have thought to dress Juno in an argyle vest, but now I think she is impressive. I like the gait she invented for Juno. All the mannerisms—the stuttering, the waving of the arms, the frenetic energy—they all came from Ellen. They weren’t in the script. She plays Juno with such perfection that I think a lot of people are going to believe that Ellen looks just like her in her real life.”

In 2007 he also shot, together with his beloved Catherine Keener, a terrible film, An American Crime , the true case of a horrific murder that took place in Indiana in the sixties. She has also starred in the Canadian dramas A Tracey Fragments and The Stone Angel . She also worked in the dramatic comedy Smart People , alongside Dennis Quaid and Sarah Jessica Parker . At twenty, Ellen Page’s future stretched out wide and long; Her success was certain, although she continued to be very clear about her preferences: “I don’t care if people like my character or not. What I want is for them to think about the content of the film.”

Two years later, she was placed under the orders of Drew Barrymore in the lively Roller Girls , where she showed her mastery of skating. And then the great Christopher Nolan reached out to little Ellen to complete his Origin cast  , one of his original movies, great, hypnotic by him. The tiny Ellen continued to demonstrate a lot of screen presence. And yet, little by little her renowned roles were diminishing. She worked with Woody Allen in 2012 but was unlucky enough to do so in one of her lesser-remembered films, To Rome with Love , and lost herself among the mutants again in 2014, as Kitty Pryde in X-Men: Days of Future. past. That same year she announced that she was a lesbian and to celebrate she filmed with Julianne Moore the militant and discreet Freeheld, an unconditional love . And although it seemed that she had not just taken off again in her career, she delivered some meritorious work such as the terrifying In the woods , along with Evan Rachel Wood .

In 2018 Ellen Page married the dancer Emma Portner and two years later she announced an information bomb that was aired by all the media. Ellen Page came out as transgender and was then renamed Elliot Page. And then a striking physical transformation began. Gone for the memory was the face of the awake and smiling girl, of great charm. Now she would have to carve out a different path for the future. And in the professional field, she found that path of success with the series The Umbrella Academy .