Canadian actor and activist Elliot Page was BOTD in 1987. Born in Nova Scotia, he was assigned female at birth and called Ellen Page. He studied acting in Toronto, becoming a child actor in Canadian television movies and series. He rose to prominence in the 2005 film Hard Candy, playing a teenage girl who takes a suspected pedophile hostage, and reached a mainstream audience in 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand, playing Kitty Pryde, a girl who can walk through walls. Page was nominated for an Oscar for Juno, a dramedy about a teenager who become pregnant and debates whether or not to adopt her baby. He also appeared in the existential thriller Inception, a further X-Men film, Days of Future Past and the 2019 reboot of the TV serial Tales of the City, based on Armistead Maupin‘s novels. In 2014, Page came out as a lesbian, revealing that director Brett Ratner had outed her on the set of The Last Stand. He married dancer/choreographer Emma Portner in 2018, separating in 2020 after announcing that he was transgender. News of his transition provoked a media frenzy. The following year, he became the first trans man to appear on the cover of Time magazine, echoing Ellen DeGeneres’ coming-out cover story in 1996. Page identifies as queer and non-binary and has openly discussed undergoing top surgery as part of his gender transition. In 2023, he starred and co-produced the indie film Close to You (his first major project credited as Elliot Page) and released a memoir, Pageboy. He is in a relationship with non-binary Canadian comedian Mae Martin.