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.
Ellen Degeneres: For Your Approval
Self
2024
Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2024
TMZ Presents: The Downfall of Diddy
Self (archive footage)
2024
No Accident
Self (archive footage)
2023
Saving the Gorillas: Ellen's Next Adventure
Self
2023
100 Years of Warner Bros.
Self · (2 episodes)
2023
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
Self - Guest
2023
Best of Ellen
Herself · (409 episodes)
2022
The Kardashians
Self · (2 episodes)
2022
Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl
Self
2022
Adele One Night Only
Self
2021
Being James Bond
Self (archive footage)
2021
Endangered
Self - Narrator (voice)
2021
Ellen's Next Great Designer
Ellen DeGeneres · (6 episodes)
2021
Wahl Street
Self (archive footage) · (1 episode)
2021
Wahl Street
Self (archive footage) (uncredited) · (1 episode)
2021
Pixar Popcorn
Dory (voice) · (1 episode)
2021
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
Self (archive footage)
2021
You Cannot Kill David Arquette
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2020
The New York Times Presents
Self (archive footage) · (1 episode)
2020
One World: Together at Home
Self
2020
FOX Presents the iHeart Living Room Concert for America
Self
2020
Visible: Out on Television
Self · (5 episodes)
2020
La semaine des 4 Julie
Self · (1 episode)
2020
Ellen's Greatest Night of Giveaways
Self · (3 episodes)
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self · (1 episode)
2019
Ellen DeGeneres: Relatable
Herself
2018
Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj
Self (archive footage) · (1 episode)
2018
The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom
Self
2018
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman
Self · (1 episode)
2018
Ellen's Game of Games
Self - Host · (58 episodes)
2017
Marine Life Interviews
Dory (voice)
2016
Finding Dory
Dory (voice)
2016
Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live
Self
2015
Unity
Narrator (voice)
2015
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self · (1 episode)
2014
Hits
Self (voice; uncredited)
2014
Justin Bieber's Believe
Self
2013
Comic Relief Zero
Self (archive footage)
2013
The Out List
Herself
2013
Makers: Women Who Make America
Self · (3 episodes)
2013
Propaganda
Self (archive footage)
2013
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
Self · (1 episode)
2012
Katy Perry: Part of Me
Self (archive footage)
2012
Bethenny
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
2012
Johnny Carson: King of Late Night
Self
2012
Inside Comedy
Self · (1 episode)
2012
The Undefeated
Self - Interviewing Sharon Osborne (archive footage)
2011
Ellen's Bigger, Longer & Wider Show
Herself
2009
Ellen's Even Bigger Really Big Show
Herself
2008
Ellen's Really Big Show
Herself - Host
2007
The Big Bang Theory
Ellen DeGeneres · (2 episodes)
2007
The Pixar Story
Dory (voice) (archive footage)
2007
The Best of Carson, Volume 1
2006
Comedy Club Shoot-out: Vol. 1
Self
2006
So You Think You Can Dance
(1 episode)
2005
Genius. A Night for Ray Charles
Self
2004
Joey
Ellen DeGeneres · (1 episode)
2004
Exploring the Reef
Dory (voice)
2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self - Host · (2078 episodes)
2003
101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment
2003
Ellen DeGeneres: Here and Now
Self
2003
Celebrities Uncensored
Self · (1 episode)
2003
Finding Nemo
Dory (voice)
2003
The Very Best of America's Funniest Comedians
Self (archive footage)
2003
Pauly Shore Is Dead
Ellen Degeneres
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self · (1 episode)
2003
American Idol
Self · (1 episode)
2002
American Idol
Self - Judge · (43 episodes)
2002
E! Live from the Red Carpet
Self · (1 episode)
2002
The Bernie Mac Show
Ellen DeGeneres · (1 episode)
2001
The Ellen Show
Ellen Richmond · (18 episodes)
2001
On the Edge
Operator (segment "Reaching Normal") (uncredited)
2001
Primetime Glick
(1 episode)
2001
Six Feet Under
Ellen DeGeneres · (1 episode)
2001
Ellen DeGeneres: The Beginning
Self
2000
If These Walls Could Talk 2
Kal
2000
Teen Choice Awards
Self · (2 episodes)
1999
After Stonewall
Self
1999
The Love Letter
Janet
1999
Goodbye Lover
Stg. Rita Pompano
1999
EDtv
Cynthia Topping
1999
Will & Grace
Sister Louise · (1 episode)
1998
Doctor Dolittle
Prologue Dog (voice)
1998
The Wonderful World of Disney
(1 episode)
1997
E! True Hollywood Story
(1 episode)
1996
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
1996
Mr. Wrong
Martha Alston
1996
Ellen
Ellen Morgan · (109 episodes)
1994
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
1993
Coneheads
Coach
1993
Raw
(1 episode)
1993
Laurie Hill
Nancy MacIntyre · (10 episodes)
1992
Mad About You
Nancy Bloom · (1 episode)
1992
One Night Stand: Command Performance: Ellen DeGeneres
1992
The Larry Sanders Show
Ellen DeGeneres · (1 episode)
1992
Wisecracks
1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Self · (9 episodes)
1992
One Night Stand: Ellen DeGeneres
Herself
1990
The Simpsons
Ellen DeGeneres (voice) · (1 episode)
1989
Open House
Margo Van Meter · (24 episodes)
1989
One Night Stand
(2 episodes)
1989
Roseanne
Dr. Whitman · (1 episode)
1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
(3 episodes)
1988
On Location: Women of the Night
Self
1987
The Young Comedians All-Star Reunion
Self
1986
Larry King Live
Self · (1 episode)
1985
Entertainment Tonight
Self · (6 episodes)
1981
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host · (1 episode)
1975
Sesame Street
(1 episode)
1969
The Grammys
Self · (1 episode)
1959
The Oscars
Host · (1 episode)
1953
Today
Self · (1 episode)
1952
The Emmy Awards
Self · (3 episodes)
1949