Ellen Philpotts-Page (born February 21, 1987), known professionally as Ellen Page, is a Canadian actress. Page received both Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for Best Actress for her role as the title character in the film Juno.

She is also known for her starring roles in Hard Candy, Inception, Smart People and Whip It, and as Katherine “Kitty” Pryde in X-Men: The Last Stand. In addition, Page received attention in Canada for award-winning roles in Pit Pony and Marion Bridge, as well as television shows Trailer Park Boys and ReGenesis.

In 2008, Page was nominated for Time’s 100 Most Influential People list and placed #86 on FHM’s Sexiest Women in the World list, and moved up to #70 for 2010. In June 2008, Page was named on Entertainment Weekly’s future A-List stars list.

In 2009, Gabeira won the ESPY award for Best Female Action Sports Athlete. Later that year, Gabeira surfed the biggest wave ever by a female when she successfully surfed a 45-foot wave at Dungeons Beach, a big wave beach in South Africa.

In 2010, she was awarded with the Billabong Girls Best Overall Performance Award for a record four straight years in a row.

Gabeira’s current sponsors include Billabong and Red Bull.

She won first place in the 2001 US Freeskiing Open in the half-pipe and second place in slopestyle. She won the first ever world championship half-pipe event. She is a three-time Winter X Games gold medalist in freestyle skiing.

She won ESPN’s 2001 Award for female skier of the year and was voted 2007′s Best Female Action Sports Athlete at the ESPY awards as well as BERT, the first skier to be so honored.

She regularly participates in skiing films, including Propaganda, in which she showcased her skills by sliding huge rainbow rails, spinning a huge 540 in the pipe and throwing back-flips with ease.

Gilmore’s life as a surfer began at age 10 when she stood on a bodyboard. By age 17 she was entering world tour events as a wild card competitor, which paid off with a victory at the 2005 Roxy Pro Gold Coast. In her next season she won another wild card event, the 2006 Havaianas Beachley Classic. Gilmore’s success on the WQS (World Qualifying Series) tour qualified her for the 2007 ASP Women’s World Tour and she did not disappoint. She won four of the eight events and claimed the 2007 World Title. She could repeat her success in 2008 and 2009.

Gilmore is currently on the Women’s 2010 ASP World Tour. She has won three of the four events so far on the tour—Roxy Pro Gold Coast, Bells Beach Surf Classic, and the Commonwealth Bank Beachley Classic.

Nicolien Sauerbreij was born in the small village De Hoef in the province Utrecht in the Netherlands. She has a sister Marieke Sauerbreij, who is also a professional snowboarder. Her father is Maarten Sauerbreij, who is also her coach.

Nicolien Sauerbreij in action.

Her first podium position was in the world cup in Mont-Sainte-Anne 2001. She became second in the parallel giant slalom.

At 15 September 2002 she won her first World cup in the parallel giant slalom. This was in Chili at the Valle Nevado. In the same season she had her second victory in Slovenia at the Maribor.

Sauerbreij has also competed in several world cups with success, achieving several podium positions, including first placings in 2002, 2003, 2008 and 2010. She finished first in the overall standings of the parallel giant slalom World Cup in the 2007–2008 World Cup season. and also first in the overall standings of the parallel giant slalom World Cup in the 2009–2010 World Cup season.

As a young girl Ricker had two dreams: to compete competitively in snowboarding, and to compete in snowboarding at the Winter Olympics, despite the fact that Snowboarding was not an Olympic sport at the time. She first competed in the FIS Snowboard World Cup during the 1996-97 season, twice standing on the podium in her rookie season. She competed at her first Olympics in 1998 in Nagano where only parallel giant slalom and halfpipe were Olympic snowboard events. Ricker competed in the halfpipe event placing fifth. After Nagano, Ricker began competing in multiple snowboard disciplines, competing in both the halfpipe and in the newer sport of boarder cross. She won her first World Cup gold in the discipline of snowboard cross later that year in 1998. She was forced to skip the 2002 Winter Olympics because of injury. At the 2006 Winter Olympics she placed 4th in the Women’s Snowboard Cross event. She crashed hard in the race, and was hospitalized with a minor concussion. Ricker later said that she did not remember her crash, and that finishing fourth in 2006 was like “seeing the love of your life on the subway but never getting to meet them.”

Ricker won a bronze medal in the same event at Winter X Games XI. She was the overall world cup champion during the 07/08 season. She also previously competed in the halfpipe world championships, with her highest finish being 7th in 2003. She is a two time X Games gold medalist in snowboard cross winning the gold in both the 1999 Winter X Games and the Winter X-Games 10.

McIvor entered ski-cross at a young age, being one of the youngest on the World Cup circuit, and finishing second in her first overall race, she entered the X-Games soon after. She was soon a featured athlete during the X-Games, and became the face of women’s ski cross. EXPN followed McIvor around and did a one-hour episode on her and what happens to X-Games athletes behind the scenes. McIvor has participated with fashion photographers, modeled on runways, and secured major sportswear sponsorships because of her popularity.

McIvor started competing in 2003. She has been to four Winter X-Games, with her best finishes being 7th in X-Games 10 and X-Games VII. McIvor won her first World Championship in 2009 at Inawashiro, Japan. She also has four podium finishes on the FIS World Cup circuit to her credit, including a silver medal at Cypress Mountain in 2009, the future site of the Vancouver Olympic Games. McIvor finished third overall on the 2008-09 FIS World Cup season.

Prior to the Winter Olympics, McIvor attended the 2010 Winter X Games as a final tuneup event. There, she and fellow countrywoman Kelsey Serwa managed to finish second and third respectively to Ophélie David. McIvor’s silver was her first X Games medal of any colour.

McIvor was a member of Canada’s freestyle skiing team at the Vancouver Olympics where ski-cross was making its debut as an official medal event. Ashleigh McIvor successfully qualified for the medal round with the second fastest time. In the finals McIvor got out to a fast start and won with some distance between herself and Hedda Berntsen. With the win McIvor won the first ever Olympic gold medal for ladies’ ski cross.

Fiolek was born on October 22, 1990 in Dearborn, Michigan and has been deaf since birth. Fiolek’s family moved to St. Augustine for her to attend the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind, the largest school of this type in the United States. At the school, she studied ballet, ran track, and played hoops. When Fiolek finished eighth grade, her parents decided to begin homeschooling her.

Fiolek is now nineteen years old. She developed an interest in motorcycles around the age of two and rode on the front of her mother’s 4-wheeler or her father’s bike. Her family often went to Grandfather’s house in Northern Michigan and rode through the woods for hours. Around the age of three, Fiolek’s parents surprised her with a Yamaha PW50, a bike suitable for very young riders. She did not use the bike very often; she had trouble with the training wheels and preferred to ride with her parents.

Bleiler aspired to compete in the Winter X Games from a very young age, and found her passion in snowboarding at age 11 (1992). She has been riding ever since and became professional in 1996. Among her accomplishments, she jump-started the invert revolution for female riders as the first to land a Crippler 540 in competition, and won more halfpipe competitions in 2003, 2005 and 2006 than any other female snowboarder. In the pre-Olympic season she won four of the five US Olympic halfpipe qualifiers and is also a four-time X Games gold medalist, most recently winning the superpipe at Winter X Games XIV.

In 2003, she was a U.S. snowboard Grand Prix champion, a U.S. Open of snowboarding champion, and a Triple Crown of Snowboarding champion.

She posed for the February 2004 issue of FHM, along with fellow snowboarder Tara Dakides and sportscaster Jamie Little.

Bleiler, who missed qualifying for the 2002 Winter Olympics due to a tiebreaker, won a silver medal in the women’s halfpipe at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.

Starting in 2007, Bleiler expanded her career into snowboard and outerwear design, through Oakley and K2 Snowboarding, designing her own signature outerwear line for Oakley, and participating in the K2 Alliance, which develops and tests women’s products, as well as working on the graphics for several K2 Boards. In 2008, she helped to create a new all-female invitational superpipe competition at Snowmass called the Snow Angels Invitational.

While competing in the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, many considered Bleiler a gold medal favorite. However, she fell on both of her final runs, and took 11th place.

When she is not competing, Bleiler enjoys surfing, mountain biking, interior design and fashion. She is also active in several environmental organizations, including the Aspen Snomass Save Snow campaign, and stopglobalwarming.org.

Born to parents Peter and Marion Bright, Bright is the fourth of five siblings. Her parents named her Torah after Marion Bright learned the word meant “bearer of great message” in addition to referring to the five books of Moses. She grew up in Cooma, New South Wales, and attended Cooma North Primary School at the base of the Snowy Mountains, and initially started out as a downhill ski racer. Bright is married to American snowboarder Jake Welch, and got married in Salt Lake City, USA June 2010.

Bright uses a goofy stance and is coached by brother Ben. Older sister Rowena competed in the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics.

Bright is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “For me it’s just a way of life – I don’t drink, smoke, drink tea or coffee, or have sex before marriage. I’ve never drunk or smoked but I’ll go out to dance and stay up late and then drive home at the end of the night.