# Elliot Page Born February 21, 1987 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Canadian actor and producer whose December 2020 public coming-out as transgender was one of the **highest-profile celebrity trans coming-outs in the history of mainstream American film** — Page was an Oscar-nominated actor (*Juno*, 2007) with sustained leading-role work in major productions across the 2007-2020 period. ## Career Before Transition Page's pre-2020 career was extensive and centered on leading roles: - ***Hard Candy*** (2005), ***X-Men: The Last Stand*** (2006), ***Juno*** (2007 — Oscar nomination for Best Actress at age 20), ***Inception*** (2010), ***Whip It*** (2009), ***Super*** (2010), ***The East*** (2013), ***Tallulah*** (2016), ***The Umbrella Academy*** (Netflix, 2019-2024) Page had publicly come out as gay in February 2014 (during a Human Rights Campaign Time to Thrive Conference speech), making her one of the most prominent openly gay actors in Hollywood for the subsequent six years. ## The 2020 Coming Out Page came out as transgender in a December 1, 2020 [[Instagram]] and Twitter post — at the height of the COVID pandemic and just before the second-season production of ***The Umbrella Academy***. The post: - **Confirmed his name change** to Elliot Page - **Confirmed he/they pronouns** - **Addressed both transphobic threats and family-of-origin rejection** in unusually direct terms - **Became one of the most-engaged social-media announcements of the year**, with widespread mainstream-media coverage Crucially, **Netflix and the *Umbrella Academy* production updated all promotional materials, credits, and scripts to reflect Page's name and pronouns** — making *The Umbrella Academy* the highest-profile American TV production at the time to publicly support a transitioning lead. ## Subsequent Work - **Continued lead role on *The Umbrella Academy*** (2021-2024), with the show explicitly transitioning the character Vanya Hargreeves into Viktor Hargreeves to align with Page's identity. The transition arc became one of the most-cited mainstream-TV trans-positive storylines of the post-2020 era - ***Pageboy*** (2023) — Page's memoir, a *New York Times* bestseller covering his early life, Hollywood experiences, and transition - ***Close to You*** (2023) — Sundance-premiere feature film about a trans man returning home; Page co-produced and starred ## Place in the Vault Page's coming-out is the **highest-profile celebrity trans coming-out in mainstream American film history** at the time (rivaled subsequently by no comparable star). His post-2020 career — continuing to land leading roles, publishing a bestselling memoir, producing trans-led independent film — has become a major case study in **whether the Hollywood industry can absorb a major trans star at the height of his career**, against the backdrop of the simultaneous state-level anti-trans legislative wave. --- ## See Also - [[Queer Liberation Ecosystem]] - [[Queer Liberation Timeline]] - [[Laverne Cox]]