Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#31
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Elliot Page works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Elliot Page appears in 25 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Elliot. Dry, fast, unsentimental line delivery that keeps big films human-sized. Inception is the clearest case: a film rated 9.3 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for adventure, drama, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Christopher Nolan, Elliot Page, Tali Shalom-Ezer and others, Elliot Page helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Inception (2010) as Ariadne · The Odyssey (2026) as Sinon · Inception (2010) as Ariadne
Career snapshot
Ranked #31 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
25
2005–2026
Career length
29 yrs
Active since 1997
Academy Awards
0
Competitive wins
Oscar nominations
1
Career total
Highest Nutevio score
9.3
Inception
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.8
Inception
Most frequent director
Christopher Nolan
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Christopher Nolan
Most common genre
Drama
16 titles
Average runtime
1h 50m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
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Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
7.1
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
6.9 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. There's Something in the Water, My Days of Mercy, Flatliners — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.9
Across 14 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.8
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
4 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. There's Something in the Water, My Days of Mercy, Flatliners.
Most productive era
2010s
14 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.85 films | 6.49 films | 7.32 films |
| Action | 6.51 film | 8.04 films | 8.01 film |
| Thriller | 6.81 film | 6.94 films | — |
| Comedy | 6.62 films | 6.33 films | 1.01 film |
| Sci-Fi | — | 9.31 film | — |
| Crime | 7.31 film | — | — |
| Romance | 6.62 films | 6.83 films | 5.81 film |
| Horror | 7.31 film | 5.62 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
Career begins
1997Working from 1997
The start of the professional record — years before the catalogue picks the story up.
First film in Nutevio
2005Hard Candy
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Hayley Stark.
First Academy Award nomination
2008Juno
Best Actress — the moment the industry started writing the same sentences our editors had been writing.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2010Inception
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.3 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026The Odyssey
The current state of the argument, as Sinon.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
25 of 25 films
as Ariadne
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Ariadne
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Sinon
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Lucy
Directed by Tali Shalom-Ezer
as Sylvia Likens
Directed by Tommy O'Haver
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 24 of 27 titles · 38 total credits · active 2001–2026
Second Nature: Gender and Sexuality in the Animal World
2026 · Narrator (voice) · Executive Producer
The Odyssey
2026 · Sinon
Heightened Scrutiny
2025 · Self
Close to You
2024 · Sam · Story · Producer
ARK: The Animated Series
2024 · TV · Victoria Walker (voice)
There's Something in the Water
2019 · Self · Director · Writer · Producer
The Umbrella Academy
2019 · TV · Vanya Hargreeves / Number Seven
My Days of Mercy
2018 · Lucy · Producer
Flatliners
2017 · Courtney
The Cured
2017 · Abbie · Producer
Tallulah
2016 · Tallulah · Executive Producer
Into the Forest
2016 · Nell · Producer
Freeheld
2015 · Stacie Andree · Producer
X-Men: Days of Future Past
2014 · Kitty Pryde
The East
2013 · Izzy
To Rome with Love
2012 · Monica
Inception
2010 · Ariadne
Super
2010 · Libby
Peacock
2010 · Maggie
Whip It
2009 · Bliss Cavendar
Smart People
2008 · Vanessa Wetherhold
Juno
2007 · Juno MacGuff
An American Crime
2007 · Sylvia Likens
X-Men: The Last Stand
2006 · Kitty Pryde
The defining work
#1
Ariadne
Inception (2010)
Performance score9.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Ariadne gives Elliot Page a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Ariadne
Inception (2010)
Performance score8.6
Inception asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ariadne is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Sinon
The Odyssey (2026)
Performance score8.5
The Odyssey asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sinon is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lucy
My Days of Mercy (2018)
Performance score7.9
My Days of Mercy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lucy is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Ariadne
Start here. Inception is the clearest statement of what Elliot Page does — accessible, 148 minutes, and rated 9.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Elliot at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
An American Crime (2007)
A deliberate change of key after Inception — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Inception (2010)
A deliberate change of key after An American Crime — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
My Days of Mercy (2018)
A deliberate change of key after Inception — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Odyssey (2026)
Keeps the drama register of My Days of Mercy but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Christopher Nolan
Director
4 films together
Notably Inception
David Slade
Director
1 film together
Notably Hard Candy
Brett Ratner
Director
1 film together
Notably X-Men: The Last Stand
Tommy O'Haver
Director
1 film together
Notably An American Crime
Jason Reitman
Director
1 film together
Notably Juno
Drew Barrymore
Director
1 film together
Notably Whip It
James Gunn
Director
1 film together
Notably Super
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably To Rome with Love
Zal Batmanglij
Director
1 film together
Notably The East
Bryan Singer
Director
1 film together
Notably X-Men: Days of Future Past
Peter Sollett
Director
1 film together
Notably Freeheld
Patricia Rozema
Director
1 film together
Notably Into the Forest
Sian Heder
Director
1 film together
Notably Tallulah
Niels Arden Oplev
Director
1 film together
Notably Flatliners
Tali Shalom-Ezer
Director
1 film together
Notably My Days of Mercy
Elliot Page
Director
1 film together
Notably There's Something in the Water
Michael Caine
Actor
1 film together
Notably Inception
Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor
1 film together
Notably Inception
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Actor
1 film together
Notably Inception
Ken Watanabe
Actor
1 film together
Notably Inception
Tom Hardy
Actor
1 film together
Notably Inception
Dileep Rao
Actor
1 film together
Notably Inception
Cillian Murphy
Actor
1 film together
Notably Inception
Tom Berenger
Actor
1 film together
Notably Inception
Marion Cotillard
Actor
1 film together
Notably Inception
Pete Postlethwaite
Actor
1 film together
Notably Inception
Lukas Haas
Actor
1 film together
Notably Inception
Talulah Riley
Actor
1 film together
Notably Inception
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Christopher Nolan
Director
4 films together · 8.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
InceptionBryan Singer
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
X-Men: Days of Future PastElliot Page
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
There's Something in the WaterTali Shalom-Ezer
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Days of MercyTommy O'Haver
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
An American CrimePeter Sollett
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FreeheldJason Reitman
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
JunoDavid Slade
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hard CandySian Heder
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TallulahDrew Barrymore
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Whip ItZal Batmanglij
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The EastJames Gunn
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SuperBrett Ratner
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
X-Men: The Last StandPatricia Rozema
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Into the ForestWoody Allen
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
To Rome with LoveNiels Arden Oplev
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FlatlinersSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Recognition
1 win · 1 nomination
1 win · 1 nomination · latest 2011
Inception
Juno · as Actor
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Inception
as Ariadne
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Odyssey
as Sinon
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Inception
as Ariadne
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Odyssey
as Sinon
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Inception
as Ariadne
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Elliot Page has known it for a long time.”
“You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.”
“An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.3 | 8.9 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #87 of 681 | #2 of 681 |
| Awards on file | 1 recorded | 4 recorded |
| Oscar wins | 0 | 2 |
| Oscar nominations | 1 | 6 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.1 | 9.3 |
| Genres | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | Sci-Fi, Adventure, Drama, Thriller |
| Directors | Christopher Nolan | Christopher Nolan |
| Performance DNA | Screen presence, Transformation, Charisma | Transformation, Screen presence, Rewatchability |
| Career timeline | 2010–2026 | 2006–2014 |
| Most iconic role | Ariadne — Inception | Professor Brand — Interstellar |
| Most rewatchable film | Inception | The Dark Knight |
| Filmography | 2 catalogue films | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Inception
Shared directors
Christopher Nolan
Shared collections
Adventure Movies, Christopher Nolan Movies Ranked, Drama Movies, Top 100 Mind-Bending Movies, Best Heist Movies, Action Movies
Collaborators in common
Christopher Nolan · Leonardo DiCaprio · Joseph Gordon-Levitt · Cillian Murphy · Anne Hathaway · Matt Damon
Michael Caine edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
21 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
16 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Inception
as Ariadne
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Inception
as Ariadne
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Odyssey
as Sinon
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Inception
as Ariadne
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Inception
as Ariadne
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Odyssey
as Sinon
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Odyssey
as Sinon
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Odyssey
as Sinon
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 11 Nutevio collections
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