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Ellen DeGeneres


Born
in Metairie, Louisiana, The United States
January 26, 1958

Website

Twitter
TheEllenShow

Genre
Humor and Comedy, Biography, Memoir


Ellen Lee DeGeneres is an American stand-up comedian, actress, and currently the Emmy Award-winning host of the syndicated talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

She 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 Pixar animated hit film Finding Nemo. She also starred in two television sitcoms, The Ellen Show from 2001 to 2002 and Ellen from 1994 to 1998. In 1997 during the fourth season of Ellen, she "came out" publicly as a lesbian in an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Shortly afterwards, her character Ellen Morgan also came out and the series went on to explore various LGBT issues as well as the "coming ...more

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Average rating: 3.67 · 130,321 ratings · 9,564 reviews · 24 distinct works • Similar authors
Seriously... I'm Kidding
3.68 avg rating — 109,438 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions
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The Funny Thing Is...
3.57 avg rating — 10,731 ratings — published 2003 — 25 editions
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My Point... And I Do Have One
3.63 avg rating — 8,694 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions
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Home
3.73 avg rating — 561 ratings — published 2015 — 9 editions
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Little Ellen
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O Negócio é o Seguinte
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Ich mach doch nur Spaß!: Un...
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Taste This by Degeneres, El...
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Little Ellen
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“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding
tags: funny
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“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.”
― Ellen DeGeneres
tags: age, exercise, family, grandmothers, grandparents, humor, walking
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“I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.”
― Ellen DeGeneres
tags: animal-protection, animals, deer, humor, hunting, killing, taxidermy
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