Andrew Barker Senior Features WriterOne of the most intriguing film actors of his generation, and a pioneering advocate for numerous social causes, Elliot Page has spent the majority of his life in front of cameras.
A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Page notched his first role at the age of 10, earning a Young Artist Award nomination for a part in the Halifax-set Canadian TV movie “Pit Pony,” which eventually spun off into a two-season series.After a few other scattered television parts, his feature film debut came three years later, and was the first of several emotionally weighty roles that the thesp tackled at a very young age.
Directed by Wiebke von Carolsfield, “Marion Bridge” saw Page take on the role of a young girl – conceived as the result of a rape and given up for adoption – who reunites with her birth mother as a teenager.
The film allowed Page to make the first of several trips to the Toronto Intl. Film Festival, though it never managed a U.S. theatrical release.
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