Elliot Page born February 21 1987 is a Canadian actor and producer He first became known for his role in the series Pit Pony 19972000 for which he won a Young Artist Award and for his recurring roles in Trailer Park Boys 2002 and ReGenesis 2004 He then received recognition for his role in the film Hard Candy 2005 and won the Austin Film Critics Associations Award for Best Actress Page had his breakthrough with the title role in Jason Reitmans film Juno 2007 earning nominations for an Academy Award a BAFTA Award a Critics Choice Awards a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award He also earned praise for his roles in The Tracey Fragments 2007 Whip It 2009 Super 2010 Inception 2010 and Tallulah 2016 He has also portrayed Kitty Pryde in two XMen films 2006 2014 and had voice roles in the films Window Horses 2016 and My Life as a Zucchini 2016 In 2017 Page was cast as Vanya Hargreeves in the Netflix series The Umbrella Academy 2019present He provided the voice motion capture and likeness of Jodie Holmes in the video game Beyond Two Souls 2013 He produced the film Freeheld 2015 in which he also starred and made his directorial debut with the documentary Theres Something in the Water 2019 On December 1 2020 Page came out as transgender on his social media accounts specified his pronouns as hehim and theythem and revealed his new name Elliot Page