Ellen DeGeneres
Actor
Biography
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
Finding Dory
as Dory (voice) 2016
Doctor Dolittle
as Prologue Dog (voice) 1998
Coneheads
as Coach 1993
EDtv
as Cynthia Topping 1999
Katy Perry: Part of Me
as Self (archive footage) 2012
The Pixar Story
as Dory (voice) (archive footage) 2007
Justin Bieber's Believe
as Self 2013
Ellen DeGeneres: Relatable
as Herself 2018
Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live
as Self - Special Guest 2015
If These Walls Could Talk 2
as Kal 2000
Pauly Shore Is Dead
as Ellen Degeneres 2003
Marine Life Interviews
as Dory (voice) 2016
The Love Letter
as Janet 1999
Goodbye Lover
as Stg. Rita Pompano 1999
Mr. Wrong
as Martha Alston 1996
Adele One Night Only
as Self 2021