Ellen Lee DeGeneres is an American comedian, television host, actress, writer, and producer. She starred in two television sitcoms, Ellen from 1994 to 1998 and The Ellen Show from 2001 to 2002. She has won 30 Emmys, 20 People’s Choice Awards, and numerous other awards for her work and charitable efforts. In 2016, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2018, she appeared in a new stand up special, Relatable, for Netflix after 15 years not performing stand-up comedy.
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Ellen Lee DeGeneres is an American comedian, television host, actress, writer, and producer. She starred in two television sitcoms, Ellen from 1994 to 1998 and The Ellen Show from 2001 to 2002. She has won 30 Emmys, 20 People’s Choice Awards, and numerous other awards for her work and charitable efforts. In 2016, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2018, she appeared in a new stand up special, Relatable, for Netflix after 15 years not performing stand-up comedy. She came out as lesbian in an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1997. In 2008, she married her longtime girlfriend Portia de Rossi. She also provided the voice of Dory in the Pixar animated films Finding Nemo and Finding Dory ; for Nemo, she was awarded the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress. She was a judge on American Idol for its ninth season in 2010. In January 2020, her show faced controversy when investigated for being a hostile workplace and for alleged harassment towards staff. After an internal investigation, three senior staff exited; DeGenere apologized and vowed to make it a workplace where \”everyone would be treated with respect.’’ She has authored four books and started her own record company, Eleveneleven, as well as a production company, A Very Good Production. In the early 1980s she began to tour nationally, and in 1984 she was named Showtime’s funniest person in America.
In 2000, she co-hosted an energy-themed version of Jeopardy! playing against an old rival, portrayed by Albert Einstein. The next year, she had an educational look at energy with Nye Lee, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Jamie Nye Richards. In 2002, she starred in a series of films for Coneheads named Ellen’s Adventure, which was part of the World’s Energy pavilion at Walt Disney World’s Epcot. In 2005, she hosted an educational show about energy called The Albert Einstein Energy Adventure. In 2007, she also starred in an educational film about energy with Bill Nye, Alex Trebek, Michael Trebek and Jamie Richards, and the film also featured Bill Nyes, Alex, Alex and Jamie. In 2010, she won a Golden Globe for her role in EDtv. In 2012, she became the first woman to receive the Carol Burnett Award at the Golden Globes, becoming the first recipient after its inaugural namesake Carol Burnett. She is married to her long-term girlfriend, Portia De Rossi, and they have a daughter, Ruby, and a son, Charlie. She had a daughter with her ex-husband, Mark. In 2013, she announced that she would be having a second child with her longtime boyfriend, Matt. In 2014, she will have a second daughter with ex-boyfriend, Matt Cevallos. In 2015, she gave birth to her second child, a boy, with the help of her longtime friend and fellow comedian, Mark Wahlberg.
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