Ellen DeGeneres profile
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Ellen DeGeneres

26th January 1958 Metairie, Louisiana, USA Acting

Ellen Lee DeGeneres (born January 26, 1958) is an American stand-up comic, television host, and actress. She hosts the syndicated talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and was also a judge on American Idol for one year, having joined the show in its ninth season. DeGeneres has hosted both the Academy Awards and the Primetime Emmys. As a film actress, she starred in Mr. Wrong, appeared in EDtv and The Love Letter, and provided the voice of Dory in the Disney-Pixar animated film Finding Nemo, for which she was awarded a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first and only time a voice performance won a Saturn Award. She also starred in two television sitcoms, Ellen from 1994 to 1998 and The Ellen Show from 2001 to 2002. During the fourth season of Ellen in 1997, DeGeneres came out publicly as a lesbian in an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Shortly afterwards, her character Ellen Morgan also came out to a therapist played by Winfrey, and the series went on to explore various LGBT issues including the coming out process. She has won twelve Emmys and numerous other awards for her work and charitable efforts.

56 Movies 61 TV Shows 123 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Endangered poster
Endangered 22nd April 2021 as Self - Narrator (voice)
Unity poster
Unity 12th August 2015 as Narrator (voice)
Hits poster
Hits 21st January 2014 as Self (voice; uncredited)
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The Undefeated 15th July 2011 as Self - Interviewing Sharon Osborne (archive footage)
On the Edge poster
On the Edge 28th June 2001 as Operator (segment "Reaching Normal") (uncredited)
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EDtv 26th March 1999 as Cynthia Topping
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Joey 9th September 2004 as Ellen DeGeneres
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Ellen 29th March 1994 as Ellen Morgan
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Today 14th January 1952 as Self