The Big Break: How Elliot Page’s Film Debut in ‘Marion Bridge’ Sparked Emotional Roles to Come Like ‘Hard Candy’ and ‘Juno’
variety.comAndrew 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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