Elliot Page
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Demographics
Gender Transgender Male
Birth Name Ellen Grace Philpotts-Page
Birthplace Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Birth Date February 21, 1987
Ethnicity Northwestern European
Overview English, Scottish, Irish, some Welsh
Nationality Canadian
Career Actor, producer
Color Season Dark Autumn
Notes and Motifs
Ji idiosyncratic
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LGBT
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Page: "When I feel strongly about something, I'm not so quiet."
Page: "I really hope that we'll have a sustainable future on this planet, I really do. So I probably geek out mostly about learning more about how potentially we can hopefully make that happen, hopefully we're not too far lost."
Page: "Acting is very physical, even when it doesn't appear to be. It's about the arc of your body's language through a film."
Page: "I think it's obvious when you're watching a movie, and there's people fighting or someone's slipping on the side of the building, that it's fake and it really removes you from it."
Page: "Conversations create change. It's easy to call someone 'enemy,' but there's more to it, right?"
Page: "I think of those who are so much less fortunate than me all the time. I came out to people clapping and an outpour of support. And the reality is, for a lot of people, they get kicked out of their homes or are faced with violence."
Page: "I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world."
Page: "People ask if I'm concerned about getting pigeonholed. No one asks, 'Ellen, you've done seven straight roles in a row. Shouldn't you shake it up, do something queer?' There's still that double standard."
Page: "I love playing roles that are physical, absolutely love. Whether it's just that kind of basic level of physicality or whether it's stunts."
Page: "The thing that I would say you get the most hate about on social media, in my experience, is if you tweet anything about women's rights or feminism. It blows my mind. But it's the thought of not being a feminist that actually blows my mind."
Page: "I grew up playing sports, but now I feel like I can't, because if I get injured, I'll impair whatever film I'm working on."
Page: "I love sport, I grew up playing sports, that's all I did, and it is so invigorating now that I'm supposedly adult to learn something completely new, from the bottom up."
Page: "I don't really want to do the Hollywood thing. I think you ought to try to say something with your movies."
Page: "I've become really interested in permaculture, simplifying my life and doing everything I can to develop more of a sustainable lifestyle."
Page: "I didn't really play dress up when I was a kid, and I'm really T-shirt and jeans-y."
Page: "I'm kind of getting more excited about developing my own stuff, or getting involved early in projects and doing my best to make things that I care about happen."
Page: "I'd ice-skated before, because I'm Canadian and that's what you do as a kid, but I'd never, ever been on quad skates."
Page: "But I've never been really rebellious. I've got a lot of support and I'm not pushed so hard that I feel like I'm going to burn out, which is what happens to a lot of actors in their early twenties."
Page: "I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it's common sense."
Page: "To be in a position, at my age, where I am financially independent, I can help develop things, I can promote stuff that I believe in, I can say no a lot and spend time writing - that is a gift."
Page: "And I've shot in Prince Edward Island winters, I mean, I've shot in some intense, intense temperatures."
Page: "I don't want to become unhealthily attached to what I do. I'm grateful for what I do, but I also want to be able to be OK when I'm not doing it."
Page: "When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be."
Page: "There's no big budget Canadian movie. Whatever movies are big budget in Canada come from the States. Or also have States financing. Everything's pretty small."
Page: "I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men."
Page: "Fashion once meant dresses and heels, and I didn't know why I'd want to be dressed that way. Now I'm like, 'Oh my God, those Saint Laurent boots!' Those are not words I thought I'd ever say. A beautiful suit is nice. I get fashion now. In fact, I love it."
Page: "I think, because I've been working for a while, I've been working since I was ten, I had the fortune of reading a lot, a lot of scripts."