Page attended the Halifax Grammar School until grade 10, and spent some time at Queen Elizabeth High School. He was assigned female at birth and used the birth name of Ellen prior to transitioning. Page was born on February 21, 1987, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Martha Philpotts, a teacher, and Dennis Page, a graphic designer. His later television credits include hosting the documentary series Gaycation (2016–2017), for which he was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards, and portraying main character Vanya/Viktor Hargreeves in the Netflix superhero series The Umbrella Academy (2019–present). He provided voice acting and motion-capture acting for supernatural main character Jodie Holmes in the video game Beyond: Two Souls (2013), for which he received a BAFTA Games Award nomination.

He has also portrayed superhero Kitty Pryde in the X-Men films The Last Stand (2006) and Days of Future Past (2014), produced the film Freeheld (2015) in which he also starred, and made his directorial debut with the documentary There's Something in the Water (2019). Page has earned additional accolades and praise for roles in The Tracey Fragments (2007), Whip It (2009), Super (2010), Inception (2010), and Tallulah (2016). At age 20, it made him the fourth-youngest nominee for the Academy Award Best Actress at the time. He received critical acclaim for portraying the title role, a pregnant teenager, in Jason Reitman's film Juno (2007), and earned nominations for an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, a Critics' Choice Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance.

Page had his breakthrough starring as a teenage vigilante in the film Hard Candy (2005), for which he won an Austin Film Critics Association Award and received an Empire Award nomination. One of Page's first roles in a mainstream US-distributed film was in the 2003 made-for-television film Going For Broke. While presenting as female, Page came to recognition for his role in the television franchise Pit Pony (1997–2000), for which he was nominated for a Young Artist Award, and for his recurring roles in Trailer Park Boys (2002) and ReGenesis (2004).

He appeared on the cover of Time in March 2021, becoming the first openly trans man to do so. Page was assigned female at birth, and later publicly came out as a trans man in December 2020. He has received various accolades, including an Academy Award nomination, two BAFTA Awards and Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and a Satellite Award. Elliot Page (formerly Ellen Page born Febru) is a Canadian actor.

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