Ellen DeGeneres

Ellen DeGeneres

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Birthday: 
26 January 1958, Metairie, Louisiana, USA
Birth Name: 
Ellen Lee DeGeneres
Height: 
171 cm
Emmy-winning talk show host Ellen Lee DeGeneres was born in Metairie, Louisiana, a New Orleans suburb. She is the daughter of Betty DeGeneres (née Elizabeth Jane Pfeffer), a speech therapist, and Elliott Everett DeGeneres, an insurance agent. Her brother is musician and producer Vance DeGeneres. Her parents divorced when she was sixteen years old.... Show more »
Emmy-winning talk show host Ellen Lee DeGeneres was born in Metairie, Louisiana, a New Orleans suburb. She is the daughter of Betty DeGeneres (née Elizabeth Jane Pfeffer), a speech therapist, and Elliott Everett DeGeneres, an insurance agent. Her brother is musician and producer Vance DeGeneres. Her parents divorced when she was sixteen years old. Her mother remarried, and her new husband, salesman Roy Gruessendorf, moved the family to Atlanta, Texas.After graduating from Atlanta High School in 1976, Ellen attended the University of New Orleans as a communication major, but she dropped out after one semester. She held a wide variety of jobs until she turned to stand-up comedy, making her bones at small clubs and coffeehouses before working her way up to emcee Clyde's Comedy Club by 1981. Her comedy was described as a distaff version of Bob Newhart. Beginning in the early 1980s, she toured nationally and was named the funniest person in America after winning a competition sponsored by the cable network Showtime. This led to better gigs, including her first appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) in 1986.Though DeGeneres's early forays into series television were not successful (she appeared as a supporting player in two short-lived TV situation comedies in the period 1989-92, Open House (1989) and Laurie Hill (1992)), she scored a hit headlining her own 1994 sitcom on ABC "These Friends of Mine" (later renamed Ellen (1994) after its first season). She made TV history in April 1997 when her character, and DeGeneres herself personally, revealed that she was a lesbian. However, the show was canceled the following season due to declining ratings, after which DeGeneres returned to the stand-up circuit. In 2001, DeGeneres launched a new series, The Ellen Show (2001), on CBS, but it suffered from poor ratings and was canceled.Redemption as a television artiste came in 2003, when DeGeneres's daytime talk show, Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003) proved to be both a critical hit and a commercial success. Along with good ratings, the show has won unprecedented kudos from the industry, winning 15 Emmy Awards in its first three seasons on the air and becoming the first talk show in TV history to win the Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show in its first three seasons.DeGeneres has also made a name for herself as a host of awards shows. She hosted the Grammy Awards in 1996 and 1997, as well as the Primetime Emmy Awards in 2001 and 2005. In February 2007, she had the ultimate TV awards show gig, hosting the Oscars, which she hosted again in 2014. Show less «

Ellen DeGeneres's FILMOGRAPHY

WWE Raw - Season 32

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So You Think You Can Dance - Season 18

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The Kelly Clarkson Show - Season 5

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American Idol - Season 22

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The Simpsons - Season 35

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American Masters - Season 37

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Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter and Love

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Sesame Street - Season 54

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WWE Raw - Season 31

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The Tonight Show Fallon - Season 11

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The Kardashians - Season 4

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The Kardashians - Season 3

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American Idol - Season 21

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The Bachelorette - Season 20

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Saving the Gorillas: Ellen`s Next Adventure

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The Simpsons - Season 34

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Sesame Street - Season 53

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My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman - Season 4

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The Tonight Show Fallon - Season 10

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So You Think You Can Dance - Season 17

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The Kelly Clarkson Show - Season 4

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The Kardashians - Season 1

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The Kardashians - Season 2

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Ellen DeGeneres'S roles

Dory
Dory
Prologue Dog
Prologue Dog
Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen Morgan
Ellen Morgan
Herself - Judge, Herself, Herself - Co-Host
Herself - Judge, Herself, Herself - Co-Host
Dr. Whitman
Dr. Whitman
Herself - Guest Dancer, Herself - Guest Judge
Herself - Guest Dancer, Herself - Guest Judge
Herself
Herself
Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen DeGeneres
Herself - Host
Herself - Host