In 2008, she married her longtime girlfriend Portia de Rossi.ĭeGeneres has hosted the Academy Awards, Grammy Awards, and the Primetime Emmys. 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. During the fourth season of Ellen in 1997, she came out as a lesbian in an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show. She starred in two television sitcoms, Ellen from 1994 to 1998 and The Ellen Show from 2001 to 2002. In 2010, she served as a judge on the ninth season of American Idol. Wrong (1996), EDtv (1999), and The Love Letter (1999), and provided the voice of Dory in the Disney/ Pixar animated films Finding Nemo (2003) and Finding Dory (2016) for Finding Nemo, she was awarded the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first time an actress won a Saturn Award for a voice performance. As a film actress, DeGeneres starred in Mr. Her stand-up career started in the early 1980s and included a 1986 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. She starred in the sitcom Ellen from 1994 to 1998 and hosted her syndicated television talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, from 2003 to 2022. Ellen Lee DeGeneres ( / d ə ˈ dʒ ɛ n ər ə s/ də- JEN-ər-əs born January 26, 1958) is an American comedian, television host, actress, writer, and producer.
