Meet the famous Ellen DeGeneres, the broom seller who became a millionaire,

Ellen DeGeneres Achievements

At the age of 1986, Ellen DeGeneres started doing comedy shows at local coffee shops. She also had her first and most important appearance in XNUMX, when she presented a comedy segment on The Tonight Show, and she had that opportunity on the recommendation of Jay Leno, so the program's host Johnny Carson sent one of his clients to watch her performance at the Improv Comedy Cafe in Hollywood, thus appearing Elaine is on the show, becoming the only comedian Johnny Carson invites to sit in front of him on the famous sofa on the first visit.

Eileen says that her appearance with presenter Johnny Carson was a pivotal event and one of the most prominent stations in her life.

After appearing on The Johnny Carson Show, Elaine has been hosted on several talk shows, including appearances with David Letterman on his talk show The Late Show, again on The Tonight Show but this time with host Jay Leno, and on Oprah The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Ellen won the hearts of the masses with her wit, and finally managed to achieve great success in her work as an actress when her own TV series called Ellen was launched.

It was initially decided that the series would bear the name These Friends of Mine, but it was renamed again in 1994. Since that time, the series has taken a new direction, developing from being a group of events around a group of people and tending to focus on the character of Elaine, where it caused an uproar and received criticism. Big fell in April 1997 when Elaine's character became the only lead character in a comedy series to admit to her homosexuality live. Even ABC's partners in Birmingham, Alabama, have refrained from airing the episode for fear of provoking controversy, and some commercial sponsors have pulled their ads.

Thus, Ellen has revealed to the whole world about her homosexual tendencies through her series, and Oprah Winfrey was a guest on that episode, and after the episode was shown, several episodes were shown that dealt with homosexuality, and ABC executives faced a huge wave of criticism. On the other hand, the series received a lot of praise from gay rights activists, including Eileen's mother, Betty, who in many interviews and interviews with her expressed her absolute support for her daughter.

Despite the hardships she faced during that time, Elaine managed to establish herself on the big screen, starring in the black comedy Mr. Wrong in 1996, where she played a woman searching for the right man. In 1999, she appeared alongside co-star Matthew McConaughey in the movie EdTV.

In 2000, Elaine participated in the television work If These Walls Could Talk 2, where she performed for the first time in front of the audience a scene considered daring at that period with actress Sharon Stone.

In 2003, Ellen returned to the world of television, where she achieved huge success among morning followers with her talk show that bore her name, Ellen, and since its beginnings, the program has won a large number of awards, including the Emmy Award and the People's Choice Awards.

In 2003, Elaine also appeared in the voice acting for the box office hit, the animated film Finding Nemo, in which she played Dory, the cute blue fish with short-term memory loss.

The following year, she received two Emmy Award nominations for her stand-up comedy performance by Ellen DeGeneres: Here and Now.

Through her kindness and sense of humor, she has been chosen more than once to present a number of high award ceremonies, as she presented the Grammy Awards in 1996, 1997 and presented the Emmy Award in 2001, 2005, and she also had the opportunity to present the most prominent cinematic event of the year The Academy Awards in 2007 and 2014.

After presenting to the Oscars in 2014, Eileen took a group selfie with eleven stars, which became the most-tweeted photo on Twitter.

In 2009, Elaine was chosen to join the jury of the talent show American Idol, replacing Paula Abdul.

In addition to her work in front of the camera, Eileen has written several books including, My Point... and I Do Have One (1995), Seriously... I'm Kidding (2011) and Home (2015).

After finding great success on her talk show, Elaine did less in the movie business, but continued to work behind the scenes where she was the CEO of several TV shows such as Bethenny (2012-2014), Little Big Shots, One Big Happy, Repeat After Me. Since 2015, she has also entered the world of reality television through the competition program Ellen's Design Challenge, which was shown on HGTV.

As for her latest work on the big screen, she once again contributed to the voice performance of the second part of the movie Finding Nemo, where she played a bigger role. The movie revolved around her character Dory under the name Finding Dory, which was released on the seventeenth of June 2016.

In November of that year, former US President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom.