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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.

Known For

  • Finding Nemo
  • Finding Dory
  • The Ellen DeGeneres Show
  • Ellen
  • If These Walls Could Talk 2
  • Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
  • Mr. Wrong
  • Ellen DeGeneres: Relatable
  • The Oscars
  • Ellen DeGeneres: For Your Approval
  • Ellen DeGeneres: Here and Now
  • Splitting Up Together (US)
  • The 79th Annual Academy Awards
  • The Ellen Show
  • The Love Letter
  • Ellen's Game of Games
  • Ellen DeGeneres: The Beginning
  • Green Eggs and Ham
  • Goodbye Lover
  • One Big Happy
  • Pixar Popcorn
  • Finding Dory: Marine Life Interviews
  • Saving the Gorillas: Ellen's Next Adventure
  • Tig Notaro: Drawn

Featured Videos

    Filmography

    2025
    2021
    True Story (2021) (TV Series) · as Ellen
    2021
    Pixar Popcorn (TV Series) · as Dory (voice)
    2016
    2016
    Finding Dory · as Dory (voice)
    2015
    Unity · as Narrator (voice)
    2007
    The Pixar Story · as Dory (voice) (archive Footage)
    2005
    2003
    Exploring the Reef · as Dory (voice)
    2003
    Finding Nemo · as Dory (voice)
    2001
    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
    1999
    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
    1996
    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
    1987
    Duet (TV Series) · as Margo Van Meter
    1969
    Sesame Street (TV Series)
    1953
    The Academy Awards (TV Series) · as Host

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