Ellen Page won the Breakthrough Actress award at the Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony in Beverly Hills, California for her recent roles in Juno and The Tracey Fragments.

The Envelope has an interview with Ellen Page about the movie “Juno” from her home in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Among the more interesting points, Ellen discusses how she was like Juno at her age: I was like Juno when I was younger in certain ways, as were my friends. Sixteen-year-old girls do wear sweater vests and flannel shirts, and that’s OK. It’s so annoying when you’re constantly being told what you’re supposed to enjoy and what you’re supposed to find sexy and how you’re supposed to be, and so on and so forth. I think a film like “Juno,”...

Movie trailer for “Juno” which opens December 14, 2007 and stars Ellen Page as Juno MacGuff

Check out Roger Ebert’s review of Juno, staring Ellen Page, from the Toronto Film Festival. The opening paragraph says it all: I don’t know when I’ve heard a standing ovation so long, loud and warm as the one after Jason Reitman’s “Juno,” which I predict will become quickly beloved when it opens at Christmas time, and win a best actress nomination for its 20- year old star, Ellen Page.

“I read the script a couple years ago, and I really connected to this girl” “She was like a lot of people I know, but branching away from that common stereotype (of shallow, silly teens) in popular media. Pretty much all I wanted was to play Juno — I was kind of obsessive about it.”