Ellen DeGeneres Show

Ellen Lee DeGeneres (born January 26, 1958) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, and currently the Emmy Award-winning host of the syndicated talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Ellen DeGeneres has hosted both the Academy Awards and the Primetime Emmys. As a film actress, Ellen DeGeneres starred in Mr. Wrong, appeared in Edtv and The Love Letter, and provided the voice for Dory in the Pixar hit animated film Finding Nemo. Ellen DeGeneres 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, DeGeneres came out publicly as a lesbian in an appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Shortly afterwards, Ellen DeGeneres's character Ellen Morgan also came out and subsequent episodes of the series continued to explore the coming out process as well as various LGBT issues.

Early Life of Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen DeGeneres was born in Metairie, Louisiana to Elliot DeGeneres, a salesman, and Elizabeth (Betty) Jane Pfeffer. Ellen DeGeneres is of French, English, German and Irish descent. Along with Ellen DeGeneres's brother Vance DeGeneres, actor and guitarist for the rock band Cowboy Mouth, Ellen DeGeneres was raised as a Christian Scientist until the age of 13. Ellen's mother, Betty and her father, Elliot, filed for separation on December 4, 1973. The divorce was finalized in January 1974. Shortly after the divorce, Betty Jane remarried to Roy Gruessendorf, who also worked as a salesman. Betty Jane and her children moved away with Gruessendorf from the New Orleans area to Atlanta, Texas, where DeGeneres graduated from Atlanta High School on May 21, 1976, after completing Ellen DeGeneres's first years of high school at Grace King High School in Metairie, Louisiana. DeGeneres moved back to New Orleans to attend the University of New Orleans, where Ellen DeGeneres majored in communications. After one semester, Ellen DeGeneres left school to do clerical work in a law firm along with cousin Laura Gillen. Ellen DeGeneres also held a job selling clothes at the chain-store the Merry-Go-Round at the Lakeside Shopping Center in New Orleans. Other working experiences included being a waitress at TGI Friday's and another restaurant, a house painter, a hostess, a bartender, a part-time dancer and an oyster shucker. Finally, DeGeneres realized she didn't want to "answer to a boss" and started to figure out what she really wanted to do.

Awards

Daytime Emmy Awards

2007 Outstanding Talk Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2007 Outstanding Talk Show Host, The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2006 Outstanding Talk Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2006 Outstanding Talk Show Host, The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2006 Outstanding Special Class Writing, The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2005 Outstanding Talk Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2005 Outstanding Talk Show Host, The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2005 Outstanding Special Class Writing, The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2004 Outstanding Talk Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show
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