Haligonians sure love to talk about their Ellen Page.
Because on the streets of Halifax, N.S., everyone can play six degrees with the Oscar-nominated actress.
"She's been coming here for a long, long time," Hudson Shotwell of Trident Booksellers and Caf� told Â鶹´«Ã½.
"(And) my son went to school with her."
While Halifax's favorite citizen (sorry, Sidney Crosby) has been in the film business for half her life, Page's star has just recently exploded since her Oscar-nominated lead role as the pregnant and precocious title character in Juno.
"(She's) amazing," says Halifax teacher Jane Esther. "She's such a good actress, I love her and she's making Halifax known."
Indeed. For when Page was a guest on Late Show with David Lettermen in January, she lectured the host (and America) on Nova Scotia 's beauty and fun times in Halifax.
Page's rapidly rising star has had her on the cover of major magazines and jet setting around the globe doing interviews. But she hasn't seemed to have let her status as Hollywood's It Girl go to her head.
"I'm just trying to keep things in perspective. I don't think I'm special because I'm an actor," Page says. "I do this because I absolutely love to act."
She still lives with roommates in a Halifax home and although she owns a Chihuahua-toy terrier mix, she insists that it was a rescued dog.
On Sunday night, the just-turned 21-year-old Page makes her first trip to the Academy Awards, hoping for the best birthday present an actress can ask for -the Oscar for lead actress.
"I think she is going to get it, because people love her," Andrew Murphy of the Atlantic Film Festival Association says.
But whether she comes home with a shiny statue or not, you can count on Halifax welcoming her with open arms.
With files from CTV's Denelle Balfour and The Associated Press.
