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Ellen DeGeneres Wiki Biography

American comedian, television personality and actress Ellen Lee DeGeneres was born in Metairie, Louisiana, on 26 January 1958. She is best known from hosting her widely syndicated TV talk show – “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” – since 2003, and previously for starring in the popular sitcom “Ellen” during the 1990s.

So just how rich is Ellen DeGeneres, as of early 2017? Authoritative sources estimate that Ellen’s net worth is almost $400 million, the main source being her talk show which is reputed to bring in $65 million yearly, contributing significantly to the $85 million dollars total she makes each year. Assets include her Californian estate valued at $30 million.

When Ellen was thirteen years old her parents divorced and she went to Texas with her mother, where she attended Atlanta High School, but after matriculation enrolled at the University of New Orleans. However, in need of money Ellen took various jobs, working as a waitress and bartender, in a supermarket, performing clerical work and painting houses. In odd moments she would moonlight at clubs of comedy in New Orleans.

When Ellen DeGeneres was 20 years old, she started her professional career, travelling around the US and playing to audiences wherever she was welcome, eventually becoming MC at Clyde’s Comedy Club in New Orleans, so successfully  that “Showtime” named Ellen as America’s Funniest Person in 1982. Later in the ‘80s she starred in the film “Coneheads”, and then in a series of films for the show called “Ellen’s Energy Adventure”. She began making appearances in “The Tonight Show”, impressing producers so that the situation comedy named “Ellen” was launched on ABC TV in 1994, and lasted for five seasons and 109 episodes in total. In February of 1997 the show’s ratings rose to the top, apparently because Ellen’s personage turned out to be homosexual, and shortly afterwards, Ellen appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and ‘outed’ herself, obviously to widespread approval from audiences. Her net worth was certainly boosted.

The next significant step in Ellen DeGeneres’ career was the creation of the daytime “Ellen DeGeneres Show”, which debuted in September 2003. This syndicated talk show scored very high ratings after only a few episodes, and was so successful that after its premier season it was rewarded as the Best Talk Show, and nominated for eleven Daytime Emmy Awards. This show still goes to air, projected to at least 2020, and has won over 40 Daytime Emmy Awards. Nowadays it is acknowledged to be the most watchable talk show on daytime television, averaging audiences of over four million daily.

Additionally, Ellen DeGeneres was a judge in a popular reality TV show “American Idol”, but only in the ninth season. She has also hosted the Academy Awards in 2007 and 2014, Grammy Awards in 1996 and ’97, and Emmy Awards in 2001 and 2005.

In her personal life, Ellen DeGeneres has been openly gay for many years, and since 2004 has been in a relationship with actress Portia De Rossi. When same-sex marriage was legalized in California, Ellen and Portia married in 2008 on Ellen’s California estate.. She was previously partners with Anne Heche from 1997 to 2000, and Alexandra Hedison from 2001 to 2004. Ellen is a strong advocate for LGBT rights, AIDS awareness, and animal rights – being a former vegan.

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Ellen DeGeneres Trademarks

1. Blue eyes
2. Blonde hair, often short
3. Quick comedic pauses
4. Often wears pants
5. Blue sneakers

Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

• Why do they say we’re over the hill? I don’t even know what that means and why it’s a bad thing. When I go hiking and I get over a hill, that means I’m past the hard part and there’s a snack in my future.
• Be kind to one another.
• We can sit and worry about what’s going to happen to us two weeks from now. I’d rather focus on the amazing things happening right in front of us. Animals help us do that.
• I’m glad I’m funny. I’m glad I make people happy, because that’s very important. But I’m most proud to be known as a kind person…Because kindness spreads, and the world is a little nicer out there.
• Never follow anyone else’s path, unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path; then, by all means, you should follow that path.
• What goes up must come down, which is why I don’t wear tube tops.
• Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.
• On why she, a non-singing entertainer, would be a successful American Idol (2002) judge replacement: I know I’m going to be a great judge – because I’ve spent my whole life being judged.
• Every morning, I would come down to the kitchen and I would see myself making coffee and I would think ‘oh, she’s pretty’. (on what life would be like with an identical twin)
• There’s two things I’ve always wanted to do in my life. One is to host the Oscars. The second is to get a call from Laura Ziskin. You can imagine that day’s diary entry. – After receiving a call from Ziskin, producer of the 2007 Oscars, requesting that Ellen host.
• Really, he called me that? Ellen Degenerate? I’ve been getting that since the fourth grade. I guess I’m happy I could give him work. [When told in an interview that, after she revealed her homosexuality, Jerry Falwell called her ‘Ellen Degenerate’].
• “I look at anything in nature and how things work-the stars, the pyramids-and I can’t imagine that there’s not some kind of design to it all. There’s got to be something big that we don’t understand. I do believe in Jesus. I believe in being good to one another. Life is about spending our time here contributing and not taking away. That’s my faith.” (Redbook, January 2006)
• “I’d like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I’ve tried to meditate, but it’s really hard for me to stay still. I’d like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can’t shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.” (Redbook, January 2006)
• “I just like observing people-it’s something I’ve done ever since I was a kid, and I got really good at it. That’s a big part of why I became a comedian. My audience is filled with every kind of person you can imagine, and I love that.” (Redbook, January 2006)
• Sometimes the greatest things are the most embarrassing.
• On hosting the Emmys after the 9/11 tragedy (November 4, 2001): “We’re told to go on living our lives as usual, because to do otherwise is to let the terrorists win, and really, what would upset the Taliban more than a gay woman wearing a suit in front of a room full of Jews?”
• You say you’re sick and tired of hearing about me? I’ve got news for you: I’M sick and tired of hearing about me.
• My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the hell she is.
• 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.
• “The ’60s were when hallucinogenic drugs were really, really big. And, I don’t think it’s a coincidence that we had the type of shows we had then like The Flying Nun (1967).
• On her love scene with Bill Pullman in Mr. Wrong (1996): “It’s a combination of Something Wild (1986), After Hours (1985) and Mary Poppins (1964)….if Mary Poppins were naked.”
• “I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are. That’s where us gay people come from – you heterosexuals.” – during her interview on 20/20 (1978).
• People always ask me ‘Were you funny as a child?’ Well, I was an accountant.
• I’m a lesbian, an Aquarian, and a vegetarian.

Ellen DeGeneres Important Facts

• $15,000,000
• $2,000,000
• In 2010 Ellen founded her record label “eleveneleven” with her TV production company “A Very Good Production.” First signed artist was teen sensation Greyson Chance after he created quite a stir on YouTube. The genesis of Ellen’s company name resulted from her frequent sightings of 11:11 on digital timepieces, her chance discovery of the singer on the 11th of the month and the fact that his soccer jersey number was 11. Ellen’s name also has two lower case adjacent ‘L’s that resemble the number 11.
• Ellen was raised as a Christian Scientist until the age of thirteen when her parents divorced. When Ellen’s mother remarried, they converted to his beliefs.
• Ellen lived in the apartment used in Annabelle (2014). While promoting the movie in her show she explained that: “The apartment in the movie was my first apartment that I moved to in L.A. That was the building I lived in; where they shot the movie. I was watching it going: ‘That looks familiar’ and it was my building. It was scary back then too.”.
• Was the first choice to portray Phoebe Buffay in Friends (1994) but turned it down. The part then went to Lisa Kudrow.
• Born at 3:00 AM.
• Received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6270 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California in September 4, 2012.
• Winner of the 2012 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, awarded by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
• Ellen’s first major league baseball game was at Target Field in Minnesota, home of the Minnesota Twins. She answered two questions right about Joe Mauer and got a Minnesota Twins Joe Mauer jersey.
• She became vegan in 2010.
• Animal advocate and co-owner of “Halo”.
• Quit smoking cigarettes using the Allen Carr method (also known as Easy Way). She had been a long time smoker and was having trouble quitting.
• Auditioned for the role of Jody in Pulp Fiction (1994), but Rosanna Arquette was cast instead.
• Gave the Commencement Speech at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana in May 2009.
• Younger sister of Vance DeGeneres.
• Ellen and her girlfriend, Portia de Rossi, got married on August 16th, 2008 at Ellen’s home in Beverly Hills, California.
• Good friends with actress Courteney Cox.
• When she appeared on the April 14, 1997 cover of Time magazine, readers’ voted it the magazine’s best ever.
• She is a sweetheart of the fraternity Sigma Tau Gamma.
• Is only the second woman to host the Oscars on her own. The first was Whoopi Goldberg.
• Attended and graduated from Atlanta High School in Atlanta, Texas in 1976.
• Was the first female stand-up guest to be called to the “hot seat” on her first guest appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962).
• She has English, French, German, Irish, and distant Dutch ancestry.
• Spoofed on MADtv (1995) by comedian Nicole Parker.
• Ended her four-year relationship with photographer-director Alexandra Hedison. [December 2004]
• Daughter of Betty DeGeneres.
• Was originally offered Sandra Bullock’s role in Speed (1994).
• Has written two books, “My Point… And I Do Have One”, a New York Times bestseller for six months, and “The Funny Thing Is…”, also a New York Times bestseller.
• Used to sell vacuum cleaners before she was discovered.
• Her last name is pronounced “duh-generous”.
• Split with girlfriend Anne Heche after being together for 3 years. [August 2000]
• Was initially reluctant to do a love scene with Sharon Stone in If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000), but Ellen’s then-girlfriend Anne Heche, who was directing this particular segment of the film, encouraged her to do it. Ellen eventually gave in.
• When Ellen came out as a lesbian on her show in April 1997, ABC’s affiliate in Birmingham, Alabama, refused to air the landmark episode. Some of the show’s sponsors, including Chrysler, withdrew their advertisements.
• Has two dogs named Bootsie and Muffin.
• Worked as a paralegal before becoming a comedienne.
• Spoke at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Pointed out that many film plots and images in Hollywood are “heterosexist,” meaning that the filmmakers allow heterosexual characters to dominate the screen. She would like to see actors and actresses portray more gay and lesbian couples. [1999]
• Named “Entertainer of the Year” by Entertainment Weekly 26 December 1997/2 January 1998, issues 411/412.
• “Best Female Club Standup”, Comedy Awards 1991.
• Voted “Funniest Person In America” in 1982.

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