Ellen DeGeneres
Actor
- Born
- January 26, 1958 (age 68) · Metairie, Louisiana, USA
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.
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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
May 30, 2003
Finding Dory
June 16, 2016
Doctor Dolittle
June 26, 1998
Step Up Revolution
July 26, 2012
Coneheads
July 23, 1993
EDtv
March 26, 1999
Katy Perry: Part of Me
June 28, 2012
The Pixar Story
August 28, 2007
Justin Bieber's Believe
December 19, 2013
Ellen DeGeneres: Relatable
December 18, 2018
Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live
December 20, 2015
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
February 2, 2026
Acting61
- 2026Jared Leto: Hollywood's Dark Secret as Self (archive footage)
- 2026The Mystery of Richard Simmons: A Diane Sawyer Special as Self (archival footage)
- 2026Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2024IMPACT x Nightline: Diddy: Drugs, Lies, & Freak Offs as Self (archive footage)
- 2024Ellen DeGeneres: For Your Approval as Self
- 2024Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2024TMZ Presents: The Downfall of Diddy as Self (archive footage)
- 2023No Accident as Self (archive footage)
- 2023Saving the Gorillas: Ellen's Next Adventure