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Ellen Page
1987Feb, 21

Ellen Page

Ellen Page, Canadian actress
Elliot Page (formerly Ellen Page; born February 21, 1987) is a Canadian actor and producer. He has received various accolades, including an Oscar nomination, two BAFTA and Emmy nominations, and a Satellite Award.

Page 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). One of Page's first roles in a mainstream United States-distributed film was in the 2003 made-for-television film Going For Broke. Page 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. He received critical acclaim for portraying the title role in Jason Reitman's film Juno (2007), and earned nominations for an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, a Critics' Choice Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance. At age 20, it made him the fourth-youngest nominee for the Academy Award Best Actress at the time.Page has 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). He 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 transgender in December 2020. In March 2021, he became the first openly trans man to appear on the cover of Time magazine.

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Events on 1987

  • 27Apr

    Kurt Waldheim

    The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim (and his wife, Elisabeth, who had also been a Nazi) from entering the USA, charging that he had aided in the deportations and executions of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
  • 1May

    Auschwitz concentration camp

    Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish-born Carmelite nun who was gassed in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.
  • 5Jul

    Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

    Sri Lankan Civil War: The LTTE uses suicide attacks on the Sri Lankan Army for the first time. The Black Tigers are born and, in the following years, will continue to kill with the tactic.
  • 27Jul

    RMS Titanic

    RMS Titanic Inc. begins the first expedited salvage of wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
  • 7Nov

    Habib Bourguiba

    In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.