Ellen DeGeneres is a American standup comedian, television host and actress. She hosts the association talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and was also a judge on American Idol for one year, having attached the show in its ninth season. DeGeneres has hosted together the Academy Awards and the Primetime Emmys. As a film actress, she starred in Mr. Wrong, appears in EDtv and The Love Letter, and provided the voice of Dory in the Disney-Pixar animated film Finding Nemo, for which she was reward a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first and only time a voice performance won a Saturn Award.
She was starred in two television sitcoms, Ellen from 1994 to 1998 and The Ellen Show from 2001 to 2002. During the fourth season of Ellenin 1997, Degeneres came out openly as a lesbian in an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Shortly afterwards, her character Ellen Morgan also came out to a psychoanalyst played by Winfrey, and the series went on to explore various LGBT issues including the coming out process. Television and film work in the late 1980s and early on 1990s included role on television in Open House and in the film Coneheads. In 2007, Forbes predictable DeGeneres' net worth at US$65 million. She has won twelve Emmys and numerous other awards for her job and charitable efforts.
She was starred in two television sitcoms, Ellen from 1994 to 1998 and The Ellen Show from 2001 to 2002. During the fourth season of Ellenin 1997, Degeneres came out openly as a lesbian in an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Shortly afterwards, her character Ellen Morgan also came out to a psychoanalyst played by Winfrey, and the series went on to explore various LGBT issues including the coming out process. Television and film work in the late 1980s and early on 1990s included role on television in Open House and in the film Coneheads. In 2007, Forbes predictable DeGeneres' net worth at US$65 million. She has won twelve Emmys and numerous other awards for her job and charitable efforts.
Birth Date
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January 26, 1958
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Birth Place
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Metairie, Louisiana, U.S.
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Birth Name
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Ellen DeGeneres
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Medium
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Stand-up comedy, television, film
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Nationality
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American
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Spouse
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Portia DeGeneres
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