Ellen Page by Amanda Friedman for Brooklyn Magazine July 2016

Ellen Grace Philpotts-Page (born February 21, 1987) is a Canadian actress and producer. Her career began with roles in television shows such as Pit Pony, Trailer Park Boys and ReGenesis. She starred in the 2005 drama Hard Candy, for which she won the Austin Film Critics Association's Award for Best Actress. Her breakthrough role was the title role in Jason Reitman's film Juno (2007), for which she received nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA, a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress and won the Independent Spirit Award, an MTV Movie Award and a Teen Choice Award.

Page played Kitty Pryde in the X-Men films (2006, 2014). She also appeared in An American Crime (2007), The Tracey Fragments (2007) – a role that won her the Vancouver Film Critics Award for Best Actress – Smart People (2008), Whip It (2009), Super (2010) and Inception (2010). She provided the voice, motion capture and likeness of Jodie Holmes in the video game Beyond: Two Souls (2013). In 2017, she was cast as Vanya Hargreeves in the Netflix series The Umbrella Academy.