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Ellen DeGeneres
Born 1958-01-26
📍 Metairie, Louisiana, USA
Ellen Lee 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 112
Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model
as Self - Host, Ellen (archive footage)
2026
IMPACT x Nightline: Diddy: Drugs, Lies, & Freak Offs
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Ellen DeGeneres: For Your Approval
as Self
2024
Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2024
TMZ Presents: The Downfall of Diddy
as Self (archive footage)
2024
No Accident
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Saving the Gorillas: Ellen's Next Adventure
as Self
2023
100 Years of Warner Bros.
as Self
2023
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
as Self - Guest
2023
Best of Ellen
as Herself
2022
The Kardashians
as Self
2022
Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl
as Self
2022
Adele One Night Only
as Self
2021
Endangered
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2021
Ellen's Next Great Designer
as Ellen DeGeneres
2021
Pixar Popcorn
as Dory (voice)
2021
You Cannot Kill David Arquette
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2020
The New York Times Presents
as Self (archive footage)
2020
One World: Together at Home
as Self
2020
FOX Presents the iHeart Living Room Concert for America
as Self
2020
Visible: Out on Television
as Self
2020
La semaine des 4 Julie
as Self
2020
Ellen's Greatest Night of Giveaways
as Self
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
2019
Ellen DeGeneres: Relatable
as Herself
2018
Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj
as Self (archive footage)
2018
The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom
as Self
2018
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman
as Self
2018
Ellen's Game of Games
as Self - Host
2017
Marine Life Interviews
as Dory (voice)
2016
Finding Dory
as Dory (voice)
2016
Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live
as Self - Special Guest
2015
Unity
as Narrator (voice)
2015
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
Hits
as Self (voice; uncredited)
2014
Justin Bieber's Believe
as Self
2013
Comic Relief Zero
as Self (archive footage)
2013
The Out List
as Herself
2013
Makers: Women Who Make America
as Self
2013
Step Up Revolution
as Ellen DeGeneres (uncredited)
2012
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
as Self
2012
Katy Perry: Part of Me
as Self (archive footage)
2012
Bethenny
as Self - Guest
2012
Johnny Carson: King of Late Night
as Self
2012
Inside Comedy
as Self
2012
The Undefeated
as Self - Interviewing Sharon Osborne (archive footage)
2011
Hype: The Obama Effect
as Self (archive footage)
2008
The Big Bang Theory
as Ellen DeGeneres
2007
The Pixar Story
as Dory (voice) (archive footage)
2007
The Best of Carson, Volume 1
2006
Comedy Club Shoot-out: Vol. 1
as Self
2006
So You Think You Can Dance
2005
Genius. A Night for Ray Charles
as Self
2004
Joey
as Ellen DeGeneres
2004
Exploring the Reef
as Dory (voice)
2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self - Host
2003
Ellen DeGeneres: Here and Now
as Self
2003
Celebrities Uncensored
as Self
2003
Finding Nemo
as Dory (voice)
2003
The Very Best of America's Funniest Comedians
as Self (archive footage)
2003
Pauly Shore Is Dead
as Ellen DeGeneres
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Guest
2003
The Bachelorette
as Self
2003
American Idol
as Self
2002
American Idol
as Self - Judge
2002
Live from E!
as Self
2002
The Bernie Mac Show
as Ellen DeGeneres
2001
The Ellen Show
as Ellen Richmond
2001
On the Edge
as Operator (segment "Reaching Normal") (uncredited)
2001
Primetime Glick
2001
Six Feet Under
as Ellen DeGeneres
2001
Ellen DeGeneres: The Beginning
as Self
2000
If These Walls Could Talk 2
as Kal
2000
Teen Choice Awards
as Self
1999
After Stonewall
as Self
1999
The Love Letter
as Janet
1999
Goodbye Lover
as Stg. Rita Pompano
1999
EDtv
as Cynthia Topping
1999
Will & Grace
as Sister Louise
1998
Doctor Dolittle
as Prologue Dog (voice)
1998
The Wonderful World of Disney
1997
Ellen's Energy Adventure
as Herself
1996
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Self - Guest
1996
Mr. Wrong
as Martha Alston
1996
Ellen
as Ellen Morgan
1994
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
Late Show with David Letterman
as Self - Guest
1993
Coneheads
as Coach
1993
Laurie Hill
as Nancy MacIntyre
1992
Mad About You
as Nancy Bloom
1992
The Larry Sanders Show
as Ellen DeGeneres
1992
Wisecracks
1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
as Self
1992
One Night Stand: Ellen DeGeneres
as Herself
1990
The Simpsons
as Ellen DeGeneres (voice)
1989
Open House
as Margo Van Meter
1989
One Night Stand
1989
Roseanne
as Dr. Whitman
1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self
1988
On Location: Women of the Night
as Self
1987
The Young Comedians All-Star Reunion
as Self
1986
Larry King Live
as Self
1985
Entertainment Tonight
as Self
1981
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
People's Choice Awards
as Self - Presenter
1975
Sesame Street
1969
The Grammys
as Self
1959
The Oscars
as Host
1953
Today
as Self
1952
The Emmy Awards
as Self
1949