Ellen DeGeneres
Biography
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.
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Full filmography
- The Simpsons (1989) as Ellen DeGeneres (voice)
- Sesame Street (1969)
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014) as Self
- The Kelly Clarkson Show (2019) as Self
- Late Show with David Letterman (1993) as Self - Guest
- Saturday Night Live (1975) as Self - Host
- The Big Bang Theory (2007) as Ellen DeGeneres
- Six Feet Under (2001) as Ellen DeGeneres
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003) as Self
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003) as Self - Guest
- Will & Grace (1998) as Sister Louise
- Ellen (1994) as Ellen Morgan
- LIVE with Kelly and Mark (1988) as Self
- Mad About You (1992) as Nancy Bloom
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003) as Self - Host
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993) as Self - Guest
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992) as Self
- American Idol (2002) as Self
- American Idol (2002) as Self - Judge
- Finding Nemo (2003) as Dory (voice)
- Joey (2004) as Ellen DeGeneres
- So You Think You Can Dance (2005)
- The Bernie Mac Show (2001) as Ellen DeGeneres
- The Kardashians (2022) as Self