50 facts about Canadian actress Ellen Page

Ellen Page's 50 facts.

1. Ellen Page is an Academy Award® nominated actress who has charmed audiences and critics with captivating performances in a wide range of films.

2. She can be seen reprising the role of Kitty Pryde in the 7th X-Men film, Days of Future Past.

3. Page's breakthrough performance in Juno earned her an Academy Award® nomination for Best Actress.

4. Juno in which she played the leading role was also nominated for Best Picture and grossed $227.3 million worldwide.

5. Her additional film credits include: Inception, To Rome With Love, Whip It, An American Crime and Hard Candy.

6. In 2013, Page starred in an entirely motion capture performance in the psychological thriller, Beyond: Two Souls.

7. To date the interactive video game in which she took part has sold over 1 million copies.

8. Her full name is Ellen Philpotts-Page.

9. She is a Canadian actress.

10. She started her career in Canada with roles in the television shows including Pit Pony, Trailer Park Boys, and ReGenesis.

11. Page then ventured into mainstream films, winning attention after starring in the 2005 drama Hard Candy a role that won her the Austin Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress, before her breakthrough role in Jason Reitman's comedy film Juno for which she received nominations for Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress, and won numerous other accolades including the Independent Spirit Award, MTV Movie Award and Teen Choice Award for Best Actress Comedy .

12. Her other notable film roles have been in the X-Men series portraying Kitty Pryde in X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men: Days of Future Past.

13. Page was born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

14. Her mother is a teacher.

15. Her father Dennis Page is a graphic designer.

16. She attended the Halifax Grammar School until grade 10, spent some time at Queen Elizabeth High School, and graduated from the Shambhala School in 2005.

17. She also spent two years in Toronto, Ontario studying in the Interact Program at Vaughan Road Academy, along with close friend and fellow Canadian actor Mark Rendall.

18. Growing up, Page enjoyed playing with action figures and climbing trees.

19. Page first acted in front of the camera in 1997, at age ten, in the CBC television movie Pit Pony, which later spun off into a television series.

20. She acted in numbers of small Canadian films and television series, notably playing Treena Lahey in season two of Trailer Park Boys.

21. At 16, she was cast in Mouth to Mouth, an independent film shot in Europe.

22. Page starred in the 2005 movie Hard Candy and gained praise for "one of the most complex, disturbing and haunting performances of the year."

23. She also appeared in X-Men: The Last Stand as Katherine "Kitty" Pryde / Shadowcat, a girl who can walk through walls.

24. As the title character in Juno, Page garnered substantial praise; A. O. Scott of The New York Times noted her as being "frighteningly talented" and Roger Ebert said, "Has there been a better performance this year than Ellen Page's creation of Juno? I do not think so."

25. Page was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress, but lost to Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose.

26. She also earned nominations at all the other major awards including the Golden Globe, BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild The role, however, did win her more than 20 awards, including a Canadian Comedy Award, an Independent Spirit Award, and a Satellite Award besides the likes of numerous Critics awards including Detroit Film Critics Society, Austin Film Critics Association and Florida Film Critics Circle.

27. Page also co-starred in Smart People, which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

28. Page's other film credits include An American Crime, which premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival; The Tracey Fragments, which was released in November 2007 in Canada and May 2008 in the U.S.; and The Stone Angel.

29. In 2007, she was attached to play the title character in an adaptation of Charlotte Brontë‍‍ '​‍s Jane Eyre and had planned to work on an as-yet unmade film entitled Jack and Diane opposite Olivia Thirlby, with whom she co-starred in Juno but it was announced in August 2009 that her role in Jack and Diane would be played by the actress Alison Pill.

30. In June 2008, Page was listed in Entertainment Weekly‍‍ '​‍s future A-List stars list.

31. Page hosted Saturday Night Live on March 1, 2008.

32. On May 3, 2009, she guest starred in the episode "Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh" of the animated series The Simpsons as a character named Alaska Nebraska, a parody of Hannah Montana.

33. She also starred in Drew Barrymore's directorial debut, Whip It, alongside Juliette Lewis, Marcia Gay Harden, Drew Barrymore and Kristen Wiig. The film premiered at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival and had its wide release on October 2, 2009

34. She features in Michael Lander's film Peacock, opposite Cillian Murphy, Susan Sarandon, Bill Pullman and Josh Lucas, which was released in 2010 despite an original release date of 2009.

35. In August 2009, Page began shooting the big-budget Christopher Nolan thriller Inception, alongside co-stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ken Watanabe. The film was released on July 16, 2010.

36. She has starred in the film Super.

37. As of 2010, she served as a spokesperson for Cisco Systems in a series of advertisements, appearing in three commercials set in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.

38. She is also the narrator of the documentary on colony collapse disorder, Vanishing of the Bees, directed by Maryam Henein.

39. In June 2012, Quantic Dream announced a video game entitled Beyond: Two Souls in which Page and Willem Dafoe portray the protagonists Jodie Holmes and Nathan Dawkins, respectively. It was released on October 8, 2013, in North America.

40. Page reprised her role as Katherine "Kitty" Pryde in X-Men: Days of Future Past.

41. In December 2014 Page portrayed Han Solo in a staged reading of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.

42. Page co-starred in Zal Batmanglij's 2013 thriller film The East a movie inspired by the experiences and drawing on thrillers from the 1970s, alongside Brit Marling and Alexander Skarsgård. Earlier Felicity Jones was attached to the project, but she dropped out and was replaced by Ellen.

43. The same year she starred in Lynn Shelton's Touchy Feely alongside Rosemarie DeWitt.

44. Page is starring in a new film Tallulah alongside her Juno costar, Allison Janney.

45. Page has two other releases slated for 2015, Canadian drama film Into the Forest and Peter Sollett's Freeheld.

46. In 2008, Page was one of 30 celebrities who participated in an online ad series for U.S. Campaign for Burma, calling for an end to the military dictatorship in Burma.

47. She attended Buddhist school in her youth

48. She practiced meditation and yoga.

49. She practices a vegan lifestyle.

50. PETA named her and Jared Leto the Sexiest Vegetarians of 2014.

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