Ellen Page

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Ellen Page in July 2010 in Paris at the film premiere of Inception
Ellen Page in July 2010 in Paris at the film premiere of Inception
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Anyone Else But You (with Michael Cera )
  US 91 01/26/2008 (2 weeks)

Ellen Grace Philpotts-Page (born February 21, 1987 in Halifax , Nova Scotia , Canada ) is a Canadian actress and film producer .

Life

At the age of ten, Page discovered her passion for acting. That same year, she had to be their role models, among others, Sissy Spacek , and Laura Linney counts her first major role in the pilot for the Canadian TV series Pit Pony , When the moon to the sun . Her portrayal of Maggie MacLean earned her the first nominations for film awards. Since then, she has remained in Canadian TV productions, series and independent films , and in 2004 and 2005 she received awards for best actress for the first time. In 2005 her portrayal of Hayley Stark, a 14-year-old woman who made the acquaintance of an adult via the Internet who was chasing minors in this way, attracted attention in Hard Candy .

Although the Canadian, according to her own admission, does not long for Hollywood fame and prefers to avoid the cinema mainstream in search of challenging and extraordinary roles, it was the blockbuster X-Men: The Last Stand , which opened its international scene in the summer of 2006 Brought about a breakthrough. Director Brett Ratner brought Page himself into the production, making him the third actress to give shape to the character Kitty Pryde, aka Shadowcat . In 2007 she starred in the Canadian production The Tracey Fragments , by novelist and screenwriter Maureen Medved and directed by Bruce McDonald , who had previously worked with Page on the series ReGenesis . In An American Crime , Page took on the role of Sylvia Likens , who is tortured to death by her foster mother, played by Catherine Keener . This film is based on a criminal case that caused a sensation in the US state of Indiana in 1965 .

The final breakthrough brought her the role of the 16-year-old student Juno in the film of the same name. As the leading actress, she plays a sharp-tongued teenager who is confronted with an unwanted pregnancy at the side of Michael Cera and Jennifer Garner . In the film, she sings the Moldy Peaches title Anyone Else but You with Cera , with which she hit the US charts. The film soundtrack reached number 1 on the US album charts. In 2008, Page was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for this role . In 2010 she appeared alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in the heist movie Inception as the dream architect Ariadne. In 2012, she played the seductive Monica in Woody Allen's To Rome With Love , who almost makes a young couple break up. She was named Best Artist at the Independent Spirit Awards and the MTV Movie Awards . In May 2014 she was in the movie X-Men: The Future Is Past again as Kitty Pryde / Shadowcat.

In the 2013 PlayStation 3 video game Beyond: Two Souls , she was seen together with Willem Dafoe . That same year, Ellen Page publicly complained about her resemblance to the video game character “Ellie” from the PlayStation 3 video game The Last of Us : “I guess I should be flattered that they copied me, but I play already starred in a video game called Beyond: Two Souls . So I don't welcome that at all. "

On February 14, 2014 , Page came out as a lesbian at a Human Rights Campaign conference in Las Vegas. Since then, she has been speaking openly as a representative of the Human Rights Campaign and in interviews about the problems her life contained before the outing. She feels comfortable in the role of homosexual characters (e.g. in Freeheld ) and would look forward to more such opportunities. Still, she feels offended that straight actors are labeled "brave" in homosexual roles, while this is not taken into account in their heterosexual roles. From September 2015 to the beginning of 2017 Page lived in a relationship with the artist Samantha Thomas. In January 2018 she married the dancer and choreographer Emma Portner, with whom she had been in a relationship since mid-2017.

The US American Time magazine listed her in the article “Meet 15 Women Leading the Fight Against Climate Change” in 2019 as one of 15 women who lead the fight against climate change.

Filmography

Page at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival

Video games

Awards and nominations

year Award category Film / series result
2000 Gemini Award Best Performance in a Children's or Youth Program or Series Pit pony Nominated
2002 Young Artist Awards Best Performance in a TV Drama Series - Leading Young Actress Nominated
2003 ACTRA Maritime Award Outstanding Performance - Female Marion Bridge Won
2003 Gemini Award Best Ensemble Performance in a Comedy Program or Series Trailer Park Boys Won
2004 Atlantic Canadian Award Outstanding Performance by an Actor - Female Mrs. Ashboro's Cat Won
2004 Gemini Award Best Performance in a Children's or Youth Program or Series Won
2005 Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Series ReGenesis Won
2006 Fangoria Chainsaw Award Relationship from Hell Hard candy Nominated
2006 Creepiest Kid Nominated
2007 Atlantic Canadian Award Best Actress The Tracey Fragments Won
2007 Austin Film Critics Award Best Actress Hard candy Won
2007 Online Film Critics Society Award Best Young Actress Nominated
2007 Chlotrudis Award Best Actress Nominated
2007 Empire Award Best Young Actress Nominated
2007 Satellite Award Best Actress (Comedy / Musical) Juno Won
2007 Austin Film Critics Award Best Actress Won
2007 Chicago Film Critics Association Award Best Actress Won
2007 Toronto Film Critics Association Award Best Actress Won
2007 Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award Best Actress Won
2007 Florida Film Critics Circle Award Best Actress Won
2007 Pauline Kael Breakout Award Won
2007 Gotham Award Breakthrough Award Won
2007 Phoenix Film Critics Society Award Breakthrough on Camera Won
2007 Hollywood Film Festival Best Young Actress Won
2007 National Board of Review Best Young Actress Won
2007 WAFCA Award Best Young Actress Won
2007 New York Film Critics Circle Award Best Actress Nominated
2007 San Diego Film Critics Society Award Best Actress Nominated
2007 Southeastern Film Critics Association Award Best Actress Nominated
2007 DFWFCA Award Best Actress Nominated
2008 Oscar Best main actress Nominated
2011 MTV Movie Award Best scaredy Inception Won
2011 Saturn Award Best main actress Nominated
2013 SpikeTV Video Game Awards - VGX 2013 Best voice actress Beyond: Two Souls Nominated

Web links

Commons : Ellen Page  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts US
  2. ↑ Actress Ellen Page dislikes resemblance to Ellie. In: Rheinische Post . July 5, 2013, archived from the original on July 25, 2013 ; accessed on July 13, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Canadian actress Ellen Page comes out as gay: 'I'm tired of hiding'. In: CBC News. February 14, 2014, accessed July 13, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Paul Wrusch: "Too much bullying, too many suicides". In: the daily newspaper , February 15, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Ellen Page on Homoexuality". In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . March 25, 2016, accessed on July 13, 2018 (interview by Laura Hertreiter).
  6. ↑ Amanda Bell: Ellen Page: Straight Actors Who Portray LGBT Characters Shouldn't Be Called 'Brave'. In: MTV News. August 27, 2015, accessed July 13, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Lindsay Kimble: Ellen Page's Girlfriend Samantha Thomas: 5 Things to Know. In: People. September 14, 2015, accessed on May 16, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Dancing into her heart: Dancing Queen is Ellen Page's new one! In: Promiflash.de. July 15, 2017. Retrieved September 17, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Mike Miller: Surprise! Ellen Page Is Married to Emma Portner. In: people.com . January 3, 2018, accessed on July 13, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Meet 15 Women Leading the Fight Against Climate Change. Time, September 12, 2019, accessed January 1, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Page, Ellen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Philpotts-Page, Ellen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Halifax , Canada