$500,000,000
Ellen DeGeneres
Net Worth
Born in (City)
Metairie
Born in (Country)
United States of America
Date of Birth
26th December, 1958
Date of Death
-
Mother
Elizabeth Jane
Father
Elliott Everett DeGeneres
About
Ellen Lee DeGeneres is an American joke artist, TV host, entertainer, essayist, and maker. She featured in the sitcom Ellen from 1994 to 1998 and has facilitated her coordinated TV syndicated program, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, since 2003.
Her stand-up vocation began in the mid 1980s and remembered a 1986 appearance for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. As a film entertainer, DeGeneres featured in Mr. Wrong (1996), EDtv (1999), and The Love Letter (1999), and gave the voice of Dory in the Pixar enlivened movies Finding Nemo (2003) and Finding Dory (2016); for Nemo, she was granted the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first run through an entertainer won a Saturn Award for a voice execution. In 2010, she was an appointed authority on American Idol for its ninth season.
Early Life
DeGeneres was brought up in Metairie, Louisiana, to Elizabeth Jane, a language instructor, and Elliott Everett DeGeneres a protection specialist. She has one sibling, Vance, a performer and maker. She is of French, English, German, and Irish plummet. She was raised as a Christian Scientist. In 1973, her folks petitioned for partition and were separated from the next year. Soon after, Ellen’s mom wedded Roy Gruessendorf, a sales rep. Betty Jane and Ellen moved with Gruessendorf from the New Orleans territory to Atlanta, Texas. Vance remained with his dad. At the point when she was 15 or 16 years of age, she was attacked by her stepfather. DeGeneres moved on from Atlanta High School in May 1976, in the wake of finishing her first long periods of secondary school at Grace King High School in Metairie, Louisiana. She moved back to New Orleans to go to the University of New Orleans, where she studied correspondence. After one semester, she left school to accomplish administrative work in a law office with a cousin, Laura Gillen. Her initial employments included working at JCPenney, what’s more, being a server at TGI Fridays and another café, a house painter, a master, and a barkeep. She relates quite a bit of her youth and profession encounters in her comedic work. DeGeneres fired performing stand-up satire at little clubs and cafés. By 1981, she was the emcee at Clyde’s Comedy Club in New Orleans. DeGeneres refers to Woody Allen and Steve Martin as her fundamental impacts right now. In the mid 1980s she started to visit broadly, and in 1984 she was named Showtime’s most interesting individual in America.
Road to Success
During the years when Ellen was working all those odd jobs, she also started trying out her stand-up comedy routines at coffee houses and small clubs. By 1981, Ellen was working as the emcee at New Orleans' Clyde's Comedy Club. She began to take her stand-up act on the road nationally in the early 1980s. Showtime named her the Funniest Person in America in 1984. She landed her first regular role on a television show in 1989 on the Fox sitcom "Open House." In 1992, she landed a role on the very short-lived sitcom "Laurie Hill." The producers were so impressed with DeGeneres that she cast her in their next pilot, "These Friends of Mine," on ABC. The show was renamed "Ellen" in its second season. "Ellen's" peak of popularity came in April 1997 when DeGeneres came out as a lesbian on "The Oprah Winfrey Show." Her character on the sitcom also came out at that time, to her therapist, played by Oprah Winfrey. "Ellen" was canceled in May 1998 after ratings declined due to ABC cutting back on promoting the show. After the cancelation of her sitcom, DeGeneres returned to the stand-up circuit. She reemerged in 2001 with "The Ellen Show," a CBS sitcom that was canceled after 13 episodes. In 2003, she voiced the role of Dory in "Finding Nemo." She reprised that role in 2012's "Finding Dory." In the fall of 2003, "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" debuted. Today, it is one of the most-watched talk shows on daytime television. In just its first three seasons, the show won 25 Emmy Awards. Ellen celebrated her 100th episode on May 1, 2009. Her 2000th show was in December 2015.
Challenges
DeGeneres also got candid about something that deeply influenced her early on in life, when she was just 20 years old: Her girlfriend at the time was killed in a fatal car accident. Eventually she had to move out of the apartment they shared together because she couldn’t afford it. Finding no place to stay by, she had to move into a tiny little basement apartment where she had to sleep on a mattress on the floor infested with fleas. She continued to face various struggles in her personal life as she became an increasingly visible force in the comedy world. “I was by myself,” she said of touring as a stand-up. “It’s not like I had friends I could afford to put up with me. I wasn’t flying private. I was flying commercial all the time and changing planes. I hate flying. I get anxiety when I fly so I couldn’t wait to stop touring.”
Failures
The most chaotic, dramatic story in television right now is whatever’s going on offstage at The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Reports of a toxic work culture, discrimination, and sexual harassment are tarnishing the 17-year-old, feel-good talk show’s reputation as a dreamland where celebrities become our closest friends, donations change lives, and a lot of clunky dancing takes place. Two scathing reports of a nightmare workplace and producers sexually harassing their junior staffers were published, leaving the public image of the show — and DeGeneres herself — in disarray. When her show, Ellen, finally went off the air, DeGeneres spiraled deeper. “I was looked at as a failure in this business. No one would touch me. I had no agent, no possibility of a job, I had nothing.”
Achievements
She was entitled ‘Woman of the Year’ by ‘PETA’ in 2009.|In 2014, Forbes ranked her at 46 in the ‘Most Powerful Women in the World’ list.|During the period 2004-14, she has won twenty-five ‘Emmy Awards’. She has also been the recipient of ‘Producers Guild of America Awards’ in two occasions.
Quotes
- It’s our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they fun when they happen? No. But they are what make us unique.
- True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass.
- 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.
- I stand for honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated, and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.