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Ellen DeGeneres
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.
As actor
The Mystery of Richard Simmons: A Diane Sawyer Special
TMZ Presents: The Downfall of Diddy
Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution
Ellen DeGeneres: For Your Approval
IMPACT x Nightline: Diddy: Drugs, Lies, & Freak Offs
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
Saving the Gorillas: Ellen's Next Adventure
No Accident
Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl
Adele One Night Only
Endangered
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
FOX Presents the iHeart Living Room Concert for America
One World: Together at Home
You Cannot Kill David Arquette
Ellen DeGeneres: Relatable
The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom
Finding Dory
Marine Life Interviews
Unity
Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live
Hits
Justin Bieber's Believe
The Out List
Comic Relief Zero
Johnny Carson: King of Late Night
Katy Perry: Part of Me
Step Up Revolution
The Undefeated
Ellen's Bigger, Longer & Wider Show