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Ellen DeGeneres
Actor, Writer, Producer, Director
Born January 26, 1958 (64 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.
Filmography
| 2022 | Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl · as actor |
| 2021 | Pixar Popcorn (TV Series) · as Dory |
| 2021 | Ellen's Next Great Designer (TV Series) · as Ellen DeGeneres |
| 2021 | Endangered (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 2021 | Being James Bond: The Daniel Craig Story · as (archive footage) |
| 2021 | True Story (2021) (TV Series) · as Ellen |
| 2016 | Finding Dory · as Dory (voice) |
| 2016 | Finding Dory: Marine Life Interviews · as Dory |
| 2013 | Comic Relief Zero · as actor |
| 2007 | The Pixar Story · as Dory (voice) (archive footage) |
| 2005 | So You Think You Can Dance (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 2003 | Finding Nemo · as Dory (voice) |
| 2003 | Exploring the Reef · as Dory |
| 2003 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 2001 | On the Edge · as Operator (segment "Reaching Normal") (uncredited) |
| 2001 | Six Feet Under (TV Series) · as Ellen DeGeneres |
| 2001 | The Bernie Mac Show (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 2001 | The Ellen Show (TV Series) · as Ellen Richmond |
| 2000 | If These Walls Could Talk 2 · as Kal |
| 1999 | Edtv · as Cynthia Topping |
| 1999 | The Love Letter · as Janet Hall |
| 1998 | Doctor Dolittle · as Prologue Dog (voice) |
| 1998 | Goodbye Lover · as Stg. Rita Pompano |
| 1998 | Will & Grace (TV Series) · as Sister Louise |
| 1997 | The Wonderful World of Disney (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1996 | Mr. Wrong · as Martha Alston |
| 1996 | E! True Hollywood Story (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1996 | The Dana Carvey Show (TV Series) · as Ellen Morgan |
| 1994 | Ellen (TV Series) · as Ellen Morgan |
| 1993 | Coneheads · as Coach |
| 1993 | WWE Raw (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1992 | Mad About You (TV Series) · as Nancy Bloom |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1992 | The Larry Sanders Show (TV Series) · as Ellen DeGeneres |
| 1991 | Wisecracks · as Unknown |
| 1989 | One Night Stand (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1989 | The Simpsons (TV Series) · as Ellen DeGeneres (voice) |
| 1989 | One Night Stand (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1988 | LIVE with Kelly and Ryan (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1988 | Roseanne (TV Series) · as Dr. Whitman |
| 1969 | Sesame Street (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1953 | The Academy Awards (TV Series) · as Host |
| 1952 | Today (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1949 | The Emmy Awards (TV Series) · as Unknown |