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Ellen DeGeneres
Actor, Producer, Writer, Additional CreditsBorn January 26, 1958 (67 years)
Ellen DeGeneres 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.
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.
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Filmography
| 2025 | The Adventures of Sandra · as Dory |
| 2021 | True Story (2021) (TV Series) · as Ellen |
| 2021 | Pixar Popcorn (TV Series) · as Dory (voice) |
| 2016 | Finding Dory: Marine Life Interviews · as Dory (voice) |
| 2016 | Finding Dory · as Dory (voice) |
| 2015 | Unity · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2007 | The Pixar Story · as Dory (voice) (archive Footage) |
| 2005 | So You Think You Can Dance (TV Series) |
| 2003 | Exploring the Reef · as Dory (voice) |
| 2003 | Finding Nemo · as Dory (voice) |
| 2001 | The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show · as Cast |
| 2001 | The Ellen Show (TV Series) · as Ellen Richmond |
| 2001 | Reaching Normal · as Operator |
| 2001 | On the Edge · as Operator (segment "reaching Normal") (uncredited) |
| 2001 | Primetime Glick (TV Series) |
| 2000 | If These Walls Could Talk 2 · as Kal |
| 1999 | ABC 2000: The Millennium · as Cast |
| 1999 | The Love Letter · as Janet |
| 1999 | Edtv · as Cynthia Topping |
| 1998 | Will & Grace (TV Series) · as Sister Louise |
| 1998 | Doctor Dolittle · as Prologue Dog (voice) |
| 1998 | Goodbye Lover · as Stg. Rita Pompano |
| 1997 | The Wonderful World of Disney (TV Series) |
| 1996 | E! True Hollywood Story (TV Series) |
| 1996 | The Dana Carvey Show (TV Series) · as Ellen Morgan |
| 1996 | Mr. Wrong · as Martha Alston |
| 1994 | Ellen (TV Series) · as Ellen Morgan |
| 1993 | Coneheads · as Coach |
| 1993 | WWE Raw (TV Series) |
| 1992 | Mad About You (TV Series) · as Nancy Bloom |
| 1991 | |
| 1989 | The Simpsons (TV Series) · as Ellen Degeneres (voice) |
| 1989 | Open House (TV Series) · as Margo Van Meter |
| 1989 | One Night Stand (TV Series) |
| 1988 | Roseanne (TV Series) · as Dr. Whitman |
| 1988 | LIVE with Kelly and Mark (TV Series) |
| 1987 | Duet (TV Series) · as Margo Van Meter |
| 1969 | Sesame Street (TV Series) |
| 1953 | The Academy Awards (TV Series) · as Host |