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DeGeneres, Ellen Lee

(Encyclopedia) DeGeneres, Ellen Lee, 1958- , American actor and talk-show host, b. Metairie, La. DeGeneres’s parents split in 1974, and she…

Wilkinson, Ellen

(Encyclopedia) Wilkinson, Ellen, 1891?–1947, English politician. Of a working-class family, she graduated from the Univ. of Manchester and became a union organizer. A Labour member of Parliament (…

Ellen DeGeneres

Ellen DeGeneres is a comedian best known for her daytime television talk show, Ellen. DeGeneres got her start doing standup comedy in New Orleans before going to Hollywood in 1986. Her successful…

Ellen Burstyn

Name at birth: Edna Rae GilloolyA celebrated veteran of stage and screen, Ellen Burstyn is known to most moviegoers as Linda Blair's mom in the 1973 horror classic The Exorcist. Burstyn started out…

Ellen Barkin

Ellen Barkin's days as a sultry leading lady of the silver screen peaked in the late 1980s, with features such as The Big Easy (1987, opposite Randy Quaid) and Sea of Love (1989, opposite Al Pacino…

Ellen Pompeo

Actress Ellen Pompeo plays Dr. Meredith Grey in the ABC television series Grey's Anatomy. A native of New England, she began acting professionally in New York in the mid-1990s and got her first…

The Ellen Show

CBSFriday 8:00–8:30 p.m.Cast:Ellen DeGeneres, Cloris Leachman, Emily Rutherfurd, Martin Mull It didn't take DeGeneres four years to come out on her new show. Only minutes into her second…

Key, Ellen

(Encyclopedia) Key, EllenKey, Ellenkā [key], 1849–1926, Swedish author, critic, and ideologue. Believing that women are primarily fitted for motherhood, she deplored feminist claims to equality on…

Craig, Edward Gordon

(Encyclopedia) Craig, Edward Gordon, 1872–1966, English scene designer, producer, and actor. The son of Ellen Terry, Gordon Craig began acting with Henry Irving's Lyceum company (1885–97). Feeling…