As the name implies Ellen host "The Ellen DeGeneres Show". The show started in 2003 and made history by becoming the first TV talk show in TV history to win the Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show in its first three seasons. The show is now in its 5th season.
Birthplace: Metairi, Louisiana
Birth date: January 5th, 1958
Trademark: Wearing sneakers but never wearing a dress/skirt
TV acting career: “Open house” (1989), “Laurie Hill” (1992), “These Friends of Mine” (1994) which was later renamed “Ellen” and a CBS sitcom called “The Ellen Show” (2001).
Movie acting career: “EDTV”, “The Love Letter”, “Goodbye Lover”, “Coneheads” and “Mr. Wrong”.
Awards: "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" has won a total of twenty seven Daytime Emmy Awards. Ellen herself has won four People's Choice Awards for Favorite Daytime Talk Show Host and Favorite Funny Female Star, Producers Guild Award for the second consecutive year, One of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people, "Favorite TV Host" in a Time Magazine poll and many more.
