Ellen Page
As if we needed one more reason to be obsessed with Ellen Page, our girl came out this year on Valentine´s Day-and not on Twitter or Facebook, but with a raw, powerful speech to a crowded ballroom at an HRC conference to support LGBT youth. ″It was definitely one of the most nerve-sort-of-wracking moments of my life,″ she says. ″And at the same time I was just so excited and thrilled to be at a place where I was ready to do that.″ Page also opened up about the depression she felt carrying that secret, or as she called it, ´lying by omission´: ″I was sad, honestly,″ she says. ″Obviously that´s a very personal thing to say, but I say it to encourage whatever other people are feeling. Very sad, isolated, a lot of anxiety. No more.″ Since then, the X-Men star says she can´t believe how much happier she is now. Kitty Pryde, indeed! Besides carrying blockbusters like Juno and Inception, Page is looking to tell our stories, too. We can´t wait to see her next project, Freeheld, a movie she´s been pushing to make for six years; Page co-stars with Julianne Moore in this tearjerking true story about a New Jersey police officer dying of cancer while fighting to transfer her pension benefits to her domestic partner. -QW
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