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'''Elliot Page''' is a Canadian <s>actress</s> actor, born Ellen Page on February 21, 1987, best known for breakthrough roles in ''[[Juno]]'' and ''[[Hard Candy]]''. Self-revealedOn toDecember be1, 2020, Elliot came out as [[transgender]], inand Decemberprefers 2020to be referred to by he/him and they/them pronouns - seemore information [https://deadline.com/2020/12/elliot-page-ellen-page-transgrender-non-binary-lgbtq-diversity-inclusion-representation-1234635692/#! here].

* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: When sheElliot first became well-known, rumors abounded that shethey waswere gay.; Forthis many years shewas never confirmed or denied it,by thoughElliot themselves, shewho didnonetheless pokepoked fun at the idea in a sketch on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''; however, in 2014 sheElliot came out during a speech at the Human Rights Campaign's "Time to Thrive" conference in Las Vegas.

* [[Celebrity Endorsement]]: EllenElliot gets paid to promote... computer networking products for Cisco in a campaign portraying a [[Grass Is Greener]] little town as the new tech hub of the universe (which just happens to be in hertheir home province of [[Canada, Eh?|Nova Scotia]]).

* [[Dawson Casting]]: Almost always played a teenager while in hertheir twenties., which is Understandable howeverunderstandable given that shethey actually lookslooked considerably younger than shethey iswere. In ''[[Super]]'' and ''[[Inception]]'', haveElliot had her playingplayed characters in their early twenties, which shethey waswere at the time., and Nowstarted thatgetting she's"proper" roles as adults in hertheir 30s as of the late 2010s, she's getting roles as proper adults.

* [[Dyeing for Your Art]]: SheElliot had hertheir head shaved on camera for ''[[Mouth To Mouth]]'', and starved herselfthemselves to play a torture victim for ''[[An American Crime]]''.

* [[Fake American]]: Anyone remember when shetheir last playedCanadian a Canadianrole?

* [[Forehead of Doom]]: Bounced a soccer ball on hertheir forehead while on ''[[The Tonight Show]]'' with Conan O'Brien, after admitting shethey waswere extremely self-conscious of its size.

* [[Older Than They Look|Older Than She Looks]]

* [[One of Us]]: SheElliot likes comics, especially Indieindie ones (- notably ''[[I Never Liked You]]'' by [[Chester Brown)]].

** UhThey've also done, uh... [http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/ellen-page-playing-the-lying-down-game Plankingplanking,]. She played itapparently. Awesome.

* [[Pint-Sized Powerhouse]]: Totally owned the [[X-Men (film)|Juggernaut]]. And did you see [[Hard Candy|what shethey did]] to [[Watchmen (comics)|Nite Owl]]? Not to mention [[Inception|bending Paris in half.]]

* [[Tomboy]]: Many of herElliot's characters are like this, and she, herself,they used to play with action figures and climb trees in hertheir childhood.

* [[Typecasting]]: For quite some time, Ellen PageEllio was typecast as an atypical, rebellious teenage girl [[Deadpan Snarker|with an attitude]]. However, her work starting in 2010 (''[[Peacock]]'' and particularly ''[[Inception]]'') denoted a shift to more varied roles.