Ellen DeGeneres Biography

Ellen DeGeneres, Comedian

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Born as	Ellen Lee DeGeneres
Occup.	Comedian
From	USA
Born	January 26, 1958 Metairie, Louisiana
Age	66 years

Ellen Lee DeGeneres was born upon January 26, 1958, in Metairie, Louisiana, USA of America. She was the little girl of Betty DeGeneres and also Elliott DeGeneres. She has one sibling named Vance DeGeneres.

Ellen was raised in a middle-class family that valued a good sense of wit. She went to the Poise King Secondary School, where she was actively involved in the college's theater program. She originally intended to come to be a vet, yet later on shifted her passions to stand-up funny.

Ellen began performing stand-up funny in the late 1970s, making her debut at the Clyde Drexler's Funny Club in New Orleans. She began acquiring recognition in the funny scene in the early 1980s, performing on numerous talk shows. Her big break can be found in 1986 when she was invited to execute on "The Tonight Program Starring Johnny Carson". Her performance was a massive success as well as made her among one of the most popular comics in the nation.

Ellen remained to visit as a funnyman throughout the 1980s and also 1990s. In 1994, she starred in her very own sitcom called "Ellen". The show was a prompt success, as well as for the first time, a prime-time comedy featured a honestly gay protagonist. Ellen's character, Ellen Morgan, appeared as a lesbian in a two-part episode called "The Young puppy Episode". The episode got crucial acclaim and gained her a Primetime Emmy Award.

Complying with the success of her sitcom, Ellen came to be a talk show host. In 2003, she introduced "The Ellen DeGeneres Show", which has actually turned into one of the most preferred talk shows on tv. The program has won countless honors, including 30 Daytime Emmy Awards.

Ellen has actually additionally found success as a starlet, starring in movies such as "Mr. Incorrect" (1996), "EDtv" (1999), and "Searching For Nemo" (2003). She has additionally been a judge on "American Idol" as well as "So You Assume You Can Dance".

Ellen has been an advocate for the LGBTQ+ area and has actually been actively involved in different philanthropic organizations. In 2012, she was granted the Presidential Medal of Liberty by Head Of State Barack Obama for her contributions to culture.

In 2018, Ellen commemorated the 16th anniversary of "The Ellen DeGeneres Program". She continues to be a prominent figure in the show business, as well as a role model for marginalized neighborhoods.

Our collection contains 14 quotes who is written / told by Ellen, under the main topics: Funny - Mom.

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14 Famous quotes by Ellen DeGeneres

"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 think they should have a Barbie with a buzz cut"

"People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant"

"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"

"Yeah I'm thirty-six, but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old woman, so they decided to make me thirty-two. Much more appealing somehow"

"Just go up to somebody on the street and say "You're it!" and then run away"

"But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let's get our priorities straight. I think we all know what's really important in life - winning an Oscar"

"Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others"

"Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log"

"I'm on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave it, and then I'm gonna rip it off"

"I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from... you heterosexuals"

"In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better"

"You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is"

"I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves"