• Name: Ellen DeGeneres
  
• Birth Name: Ellen Lee DeGeneres
  
• Height: 5' 6½
  
• Sex: F
  
• Nationality: American
  
• Birth Date: January 26, 1958
  
• Birth Place: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
  
• Profession: actress
  
• Education: Atlanta High School, Atlanta, Texas
  
• Relationship: Alexandra Hedison (actor; dated fall 2000), Anne Heche (actress; began relationship in April 1997; couple announced on October 10 1999; separated)
  
• Father: Elliott DeGeneres (insurance salesman; divorced)
  
• Mother: Betty (real-estate broker)
  
• Brother: Vance (TV writer, comedian; born in 1954)
  

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• "I'd like to paraphrase a very famous quote: In Germany, the Nazis first came for the Communists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist; then they came for the Jews and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew; then they came for the Catholics but I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me and by that time there was no one left to speak for me. When will we learn? We could substitute any number of different groups and the principle remains the same, which is that it's a shame, that as far as we've come we're still so intolerant and uncomfortable with diversity. "
• "I am so grateful that I have so much support and love in my life. My Mother is the most incredible Mother anyone could hope for. I'm so glad she had me and for her sake that I ended up doing something worthwhile, seeing that I weighed 10 pounds when I was born. Because of her pain, the world is a better place."
• "I got to a place where I needed to live my life freely. I didn't want to feel ashamed of who I was anymore. Thank God, literally, thank God for allowing me to get there. Some people never do. Some people hide a little bit of who they are because it's safer in this world to hide then to be yourself."
• "My life took a huge turn - so many people wanted to honor me, make me some kind of hero or leader, look to me to become political. I want to stress that this is not about me, it's about what I represent. My decision to be honest parallels anyone in history who has stood up for his or her rights."
• "Perhaps I should have become The Artist Formely Known as Lesbian."
• "I think they should have a Barbie with a buzz cut."
• "I'm a lesbian, an Aquarian, and a vegetarian."
• "People always ask me 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, I was an accountant."
• "I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are. That's where us gay people come from - you heterosexuals."
• "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."
• "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."
• "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."

• Daytime Emmy Awards: Best Talkshow, The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2004)
• Annie Awards: Outstanding Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production, FINDING NEMO (2004)
• American Comedy Awards: Funniest Female Performer in a TV Special (Leading or Supporting) Network, Cable or Syndication, ELLEN DEGENERES: THE BEGINNING (2001)
• Golden Satellite Awards: Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Comedy or Musical, Ellen (1999)
• GLAAD Media Awards: Stephen F. Kolzak Award (1998)
• Emmy Awards: Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, Ellen (1997)
• American Comedy Awards: Funniest Female Performer in a TV Special (Leading or Supporting) Network, Cable or Syndication, The 46th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1995)
• American Comedy Awards: Funniest Female Stand-Up Comic (1991)

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