Elliot Page

Biography

Elliot Page (born February 21, 1987), formerly credited as Ellen Page, is a Canadian actor, producer, and activist. He gained recognition for his starring role in Hard Candy (2005) and for playing Kitty Pryde in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006). He rose to international prominence with Juno (2007), becoming the fourth-youngest nominee for the Academy Award for Best Actress at the time. His film and television credits include The Tracey Fragments, Whip It, Super, Inception, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Freeheld, Tallulah, Close to You (2023), The Odyssey (2026), the video game Beyond: Two Souls (2013), and the Netflix series The Umbrella Academy (2019–2024). He also hosted the documentary series Gaycation (2016–2017) and directed There's Something in the Water (2019).

Page is an outspoken activist and a pro-choice feminist who has supported the MeToo movement, advocated for abortion rights, and called for an end to military dictatorship in Myanmar. He publicly came out as a lesbian in 2014 and received recognition including inclusion on The Advocate's "40 Under 40" and the Human Rights Campaign Vanguard Award in 2015. In 2020 he came out as a trans man and adopted the name Elliot; in March 2021 he became the first openly transgender man to appear on the cover of Time magazine. He is the author of the memoir Pageboy (2023).

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