Ellen DeGeneres

Ellen DeGeneres, 2011

Ellen Lee DeGeneres ( listen ^?^/^I ) (born January 26, 1958 in Metairie , Louisiana ) is an American actress , presenter , comedian and author .

youth

The daughter of the insurance broker Elliott Everett DeGeneres and the speech therapist and activist Elizabeth "Betty" Pfeffer (* 1930) grew up with her older brother with her parents in Metairie and was a member of the Christian Science religious community until she was eleven . After their parents' divorce, she moved with her mother and her second husband to Atlanta, Texas , where she graduated from school in 1976. After a semester, she broke off her subsequent studies in communication science at the University of New Orleans and earned money with various odd jobs , including as a waitress and bartender .

Career start

Ellen DeGeneres began her entertainer career as a stand-up comedian in small clubs in New Orleans and San Francisco , where she lived for a short time. In 1982 she won the Showtime comedy competition "The Funniest Person in America" and appeared in clubs nationwide. She then appeared in late night shows and comedy programs on various television channels. In 1986 she made her first appearance on the renowned Tonight Show with Johnny Carson . Her television career as an actress began in 1989 with a role in the sitcom Open House .

Success, outing and crisis

DeGeneres with Emmy (1997)

Their greatest success she had with it produced and named after her ABC - sitcom Ellen . In 1997, the serial character Ellen came out as a lesbian in The Puppy Episode ( The Outing ) , at the same time Ellen DeGeneres came out . After that, the series focused more and more on Ellen's homosexuality. As the series got more serious, the ratings dropped, and so it was canceled in 1998. As a result, DeGeneres said it was facing economic ruin despite five successful seasons with 109 episodes. At this point, she was dating the American actress Anne Heche , whose career was also affected by her coming out. Heche and DeGeneres separated in 2000. DeGeneres then had a few small supporting roles in film and television productions, including in Doctor Dolittle and EDtv . Since she initially had no major offers, she toured the USA as a stand-up comedian until 2001.

comeback

In 2001 DeGeneres returned to television with the sitcom The Ellen Show . In the same year she hosted the Emmy Awards ceremony , which had been postponed twice because of the 9/11 attacks , and said at the beginning of the show: “What would bug the Taliban more than seeing a gay woman in a suit surrounded by Jews? "(" What could anger the Taliban more than to see a homosexual woman in a suit surrounded by Jews ? ").

In 2003 DeGeneres appeared in the Oscar- winning animated film Finding Nemo - as the voice of the amnesiac fish Dorie. Writer and director Andrew Stanton was inspired to the character of the fish when his wife was watching DeGeneres' sitcom on television in the background while he was writing on the film. DeGeneres' idiom, typical of series figures, with its long debauchery brought him to the figure of the forgetful fish Dory. DeGeneres later commented on Larry King's US talk show : “That was what Dory was all about. He [Andrew Stanton] wrote the character with me in mind. He came to me and said, 'You just have to say yes because I only wrote it for you.' "

In 2003 she started her own talk show , The Ellen DeGeneres Show , for which she received Emmys in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 among others in the categories Outstanding Talk Show and Best Talk Show Host . As the host of her talk show, she had a cameo appearance in 2004 in the series Six Feet Under . In February 2007 and March 2014 DeGeneres hosted the Academy Awards. As the successor to Paula Abdul , DeGeneres was a 2010 juror for the ninth season of the talent show American Idol . Since 1996 she has been the leading actress in "Ellen's Energy Adventure" in the Universe of Energy pavilion at the Epcot theme park in Walt Disney World . The pavilion was closed in 2017.

In July 2020, she apologized in writing to all employees of her show. Before that, there had been allegations by employees that there was a climate of fear and intimidation behind the scenes. The fault for these working conditions was not with DeGeneres themselves, but with the executing producers. However, it became known that DeGeneres did not take care of their employees and did not speak to them.

Further awards

From 2005 to 2012, DeGeneres was voted the most popular presenter of a talk show in the daily program (Favorite Daytime Talk Show Host) by US viewers each year and from 2005 to 2008 the funniest woman on US television (Favorite Funny Female Star) . In 2010, as in 2008, she was voted number one of the fifty “Most Powerful Gay Men and Women in America” by Out magazine . In the first evaluation in 2007, she landed in third place and in 2009 in second place.

On September 4, 2012, Ellen DeGeneres was honored with the star number 2,477 on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (6270 Hollywood Blvd.). On November 22, 2016, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom , the highest civilian honor in the United States.

Commitment and private life

She is committed to the organization PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) and is spokeswoman for the HRC Coming Out Project . In her book Love, Ellen , her mother Betty describes her reaction when her daughter came out as a lesbian.

DeGeneres' appeal for Hurricane Katrina victims raised $ 10 million. In 2007, Forbes ranked her 17th of the 20 richest women in entertainment (estimated net worth: $ 65 million; annual income: $ 15 million).

DeGeneres has been in a relationship with actress Portia de Rossi since late 2004 . A day after the in California valid ban same-sex marriages had been annulled by the California Supreme Court, DeGeneres announced on her show on 16 May 2008, her friend marry wanting. The couple was married on August 16, 2008 at DeGeneres' Beverly Hills home .

DeGeneres is vegan for ethical reasons.

Filmography (selection)

1989: Open House
1992: Laurie Hill
1993: The Coneheads (Coneheads)
1994-1998: Ellen
1995: Mr. Wrong - The dream man becomes a nightmare (Mr. Wrong)
1995: Roseanne (TV series) (Season 7, # 21, "The Blaming of the shrew")
1998: Goodbye Lover
1998: Dr. Dolittle (voice)
1999: EDtv
1999: The Love Letter (The Love Letter)
2000: Women Love Women (If These Walls Could Talk II)
2001: The Ellen Show
2001: Will & Grace
since 2003: Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003: Pauly Shore Is Dead
2003: Finding Nemo ( Finding Nemo , voice of Dory)
2016: Finding Dory ( Finding Dory , voice of Dory)

Works

1995: My Point… And I Do Have One . Simon & Schuster, London, ISBN 0-7522-0179-4 (pbk)
2003: The Funny Thing Is… Simon & Schuster, London, ISBN 0-7432-4763-9 (pbk)
2011: Seriously… I'm Kidding. Grand Central Publishing, ISBN 978-0-446-58502-6
2012: I'm just kidding !: And other things that might help you but probably won't mvg Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86882-278-6
2015: Home . Grand Central Life & Style, ISBN 1-4555-3356-4

Awards

DeGeneres at the award ceremony on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in September 2012

1991: American Comedy Award - Funniest Female Stand-Up Comic
1995: American Comedy Award - Funniest Female Performer in a TV Special (Moderation The 46th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards )
1995: People's Choice Awards - Favorite Female Performer in a new TV Series
1997: Emmy Award - Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series (Ellen: The Puppy Episode )
2001: American Comedy Award - Funniest Female Performer in a TV Special (Ellen DeGeneres: The Beginning)
2004: Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award - Favorite Voice From an Animated Movie ( Finding Nemo )
2004: Daytime Emmy Award - Outstanding Talk Show (The Ellen DeGeneres Show)
2005: People's Choice Awards - Favorite Talk Show Host, Favorite Funny Female Star
2005: Daytime Emmy Award - Best Talk Show Host, Outstanding Talk Show
2006: People's Choice Awards - Favorite Talk Show Host, Favorite Funny Female Star
2006: Daytime Emmy Award - Best Talk Show Host, Outstanding Talk Show
2007: Daytime Emmy Award - Best Talk Show Host, Outstanding Talk Show
2007: People's Choice Awards - Favorite Talk Show Host, Favorite Funny Female Star
2008: People's Choice Awards - Favorite Talk Show Host, Favorite Funny Female Star
2008: Daytime Emmy Awards - Best Talk Show Host
2009: People's Choice Awards - Favorite Talk Show Host
2010: People's Choice Awards - Favorite Talk Show Host
2011: Daytime Emmy Award - Outstanding Talk Show (The Ellen DeGeneres Show)
2011: Teen Choice Awards - Choice Comedian
2012: People's Choice Awards - Favorite Talk Show Host
2012: Teen Choice Awards - Choice Comedian
2012: Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
2012: Mark Twain Prize
2013: People's Choice Awards - Favorite Daytime TV Host
2014: People's Choice Awards - Favorite Daytime TV Host
2015: People's Choice Awards - Favorite Daytime TV Host
2016: People's Choice Awards - Favorite Daytime TV Host
2016: Presidential Medal of Freedom
2017: Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards - Favorite Voice From an Animated Movie ( Finding Dorie )
2020: Golden Globe - Carol Burnett Award

Web links

Commons : Ellen DeGeneres - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Ellen DeGeneres in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Official website (English)
The Ellen Forum - Everything about Ellen DeGeneres German website with further information, links, articles etc.

swell

↑ Paprocki, Sherry Beck .: Ellen DeGeneres: entertainer . Chelsea House Publishers, New York 2009, ISBN 978-1-4381-2039-3 .
^ Caryn James: A Message That's Diminished by the Buildup . In: The New York Times . April 13, 1997, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed February 24, 2019]).
↑ Bill Carter: ABC Is Canceling 'Ellen' . In: The New York Times . April 25, 1998, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed February 20, 2019]).
↑ Glenn Lovell, Glenn Lovell: Bono: 'Ellen' too gay. In: Variety. March 9, 1998, accessed February 20, 2019 .
↑ Ellen DeGeneres 2004 on Larry King's US talk show: “That's what Dory was. He wrote it with me in mind and he came to me and said 'You have to say yes, because I wrote this for you.' "
↑ Oscar presenter DeGeneres: Playing it safe with Ellen. Spiegel Online , August 3, 2013, accessed August 3, 2013 .
↑ Press release of September 10, 2009
↑ https://www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de/inhalt.nach-schweren-vorwuerfen-ellen-degeneres-entschuldigt-sich-bei-ihrem-team.7059ecbd-d7c6-4175-a25d-0874e9865b81.html After serious allegations: Ellen DeGeneres apologizes to her team
^ The 4th Annual Power 50 - 1st Ellen DeGeneres , April 2010
^ The 2nd Annual Power 50 , April 2008
^ The Power 50 , April 2007
↑ Out Magazine's 3rd Annual Power 50 , outinamerica.com, April 9, 2009
↑ Ellen DeGeneres. Hollywood Walk of Fame, accessed September 5, 2012 .
↑ Ellen DeGeneres tears up at White House - CNN
↑ Ellen DeGeneres wants to get married
↑ CBS News: Ellen DeGeneres and de Rossi wed in California , February 11, 2009 (English)
↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgEXRPUxrTA
^ The White House: President Obama Names Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. November 16, 2016, accessed November 22, 2016 .
↑ Golden Globes: Ellen DeGeneres to Receive Carol Burnett Award. In: hollywoodreporter.com. November 4, 2019, accessed November 23, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	DeGeneres, Ellen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	DeGeneres, Ellen Lee (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American actress, presenter, comedian and author
DATE OF BIRTH	January 26, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH	Metairie , Louisiana , United States

[1] Paprocki, Sherry Beck .: Ellen DeGeneres: entertainer . Chelsea House Publishers, New York 2009, ISBN 978-1-4381-2039-3 .

[2] Caryn James: A Message That's Diminished by the Buildup . In: The New York Times . April 13, 1997, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed February 24, 2019]).

[3] Bill Carter: ABC Is Canceling 'Ellen' . In: The New York Times . April 25, 1998, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed February 20, 2019]).

[4] Glenn Lovell, Glenn Lovell: Bono: 'Ellen' too gay. In: Variety. March 9, 1998, accessed February 20, 2019 .

[5] Ellen DeGeneres 2004 on Larry King's US talk show: “That's what Dory was. He wrote it with me in mind and he came to me and said 'You have to say yes, because I wrote this for you.' "

[6] Oscar presenter DeGeneres: Playing it safe with Ellen. Spiegel Online , August 3, 2013, accessed August 3, 2013 .

[7] Press release of September 10, 2009

[8] ttps://www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de/inhalt.nach-schweren-vorwuerfen-ellen-degeneres-entschuldigt-sich-bei-ihrem-team.7059ecbd-d7c6-4175-a25d-0874e9865b81.html After serious allegations: Ellen DeGeneres apologizes to her team

[9] The 4th Annual Power 50 - 1st Ellen DeGeneres , April 2010

[10] The 2nd Annual Power 50 , April 2008

[11] The Power 50 , April 2007

[12] Out Magazine's 3rd Annual Power 50 , outinamerica.com, April 9, 2009

[13] Ellen DeGeneres. Hollywood Walk of Fame, accessed September 5, 2012 .

[14] Ellen DeGeneres tears up at White House - CNN

[15] Ellen DeGeneres wants to get married

[16] CBS News: Ellen DeGeneres and de Rossi wed in California , February 11, 2009 (English)

[17] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgEXRPUxrTA

[18] The White House: President Obama Names Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. November 16, 2016, accessed November 22, 2016 .

[hollywoodreporter1251946-19] Golden Globes: Ellen DeGeneres to Receive Carol Burnett Award. In: hollywoodreporter.com. November 4, 2019, accessed November 23, 2019 .