Ellen DeGeneres Net Worth 2023: Biography, Earnings, House, Age, Height, Partner

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Ellen DeGeneres Net Worth: $500 Million (approx.)

Net Worth:$500 Million (approx.)
Salary:$75 Million
Date of Birth:Jan 26, 1958 (65 years)
Gender:Female
Height:5 ft 7 in (1.71 m)
Profession:Comedian, Actor, Voice Actor, Television producer, Screenwriter, Television presenter, Film Producer
Nationality:United States of America

Ellen DeGeneres net worth is around $500 million. Ellen DeGeneres is a famous comedian, television host, actress, writer, and producer.

Ellen DeGeneres Net Worth
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Ellen DeGeneres starred in the sitcom Ellen from 1994 to 1998 and has hosted her syndicated television talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, since 2003.

Ellen DeGeneres stand-up career started in the early 1980s and included a 1986 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

As a film actress, Ellen DeGeneres starred in Mr. Wrong (1996), EDtv (1999), and The Love Letter (1999), and provided the voice of Dory in the Disney/Pixar animated films Finding Nemo (2003) and Finding Dory (2016); for Nemo, she was awarded the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first time an actress won a Saturn Award for a voice performance.

In 2010, she served as a judge on the ninth season of American Idol.

Ellen DeGeneres Salary:

Ellen DeGeneres Salary is $75 Million. Ellen DeGeneres earns a salary of between $75 million and $90 million every year. For example, between 2018 and 2019, Ellen earned $80 million from her various endeavors.

How much is ellen degeneres net worth?:

Ellen DeGeneres net worth is around $500 million. Ellen DeGeneres is well known for the sitcom “Ellen,” which she created . Ellen ran from 1994 to 1998. Ellen is highly appreciated for the syndicated talk show “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” which aired from 2003 through 2021. The syndicated show made her super rich in Hollywood terms. At her peak, Ellen DeGeneres earned around $60 million in salary from the talk show alone.

Forbes estimated Ellen DeGeneres’ 2018 earnings at $87.5 million,making her the 15th highest-paid entertainer in the world. In 2015, Ellen DeGeneres was named the 50th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes and came second on the World Pride Power list.

Ellen DeGeneres House:

Ellen Degeneres and Portia de Rossi are serial house flippers. The couple has bought and sold more than 20 properties since 2003. In 2019 alone, DeGeneres and de Rossi sold properties for $6.98 million, $15.5 million, and $23 million.

Here’s a quick rundown list of their most notable purchases and sales:

2003: Ellen DeGeneres bought a house in the Hollywood Hills for $6 million. She sold the property to Will Ferrell three years later for $9 million.

2004: Ellen DeGeneres paid $1.275 million for a midcentury-style Hollywood Hills home nicknamed “the treehouse,” due to its 2,000 square feet of outdoor living spaces. She sold the two-bedroom, two-bathroom property for $2.1 million to late actor Heath Ledger.

2007: Ellen DeGeneres and de Rossi acquired a mansion in Montecito, California, for $15.75 million. They sold it for $20 million in 2007 itself.

2008: Ellen DeGeneres paid $29 million for a 9,200-square-foot property in Beverly Hills and then bought the two surrounding homes to incorporate into the estate. They were married at this house.  By 2012, they had sold the property to Ryan Seacrest for $37 million. In 2008, Ellen DeGeneres bought a horse ranch in Thousand Oaks, California, for $8.5 million. After renovating the property, she sold it in 2013 for $10.85 million.

2011:Ellen DeGeneres bought Brad Pitt’s Malibu home for $12 million. Ellen sold it a year later for $13 million.

2012: Ellen DeGeneres paid almost $40 million for Holmby Hills home called the Brody House and then sold the property for $55 million just six months later to Sean Parker. In 2012, the couple shelled out $13.2 million for a pair of adjacent condos in Los Angeles.  3 years later, Ellen sold the residences for $11.85 million.

2015: Ellen DeGeneres bought a four-bedroom, eight-bathroom Beverly Hills villa for $16 million and sold it three years later for $35 million.

2018: Ellen DeGeneres bought a mansion in Beverly Hills for $15 million in 2018. Less than a year later, they said goodbye to the five-bedroom property with a $15.5 million sale. That same year, they paid $6.7 million for a ranch in Santa Barbara. They sold it for $6.98 million a year later to Nickelodeon president Brian Robbins.

In 2018 Ellen DeGeneres also paid $27 million for a Bali-inspired mansion in Montecito, California. Soon after the purchase they paid $1.9 million for a property next door. they sold this property at a $33 million offer in 2020.

2019: Ellen DeGeneres bought a five-bedroom, 12-bathroom, newly renovated mansion in Beverly Hills from Adam Levine for $45 million. Ellen sold this house in April 2021 for $47 million.

2020: In November,Ellen DeGeneres bought comedian Dennis Miller’s home in Montecito, California for $49 million.  The purchase price of the 4-acre property came close to setting a record for the area.

2021: In May 2021 Ellen and Portia paid $14.3 million for a ranch in Montecito which they actually previously owned from 2017 to 2018. Soon after the purchase they paid $12 million for the home next door.

In September 2021 Ellen DeGeneres paid $8.5 million for a home in Beverly Hills. Two months later they sold the Dennis Miller property, which they had owned for exactly one year, for $15 million. In other words, they made $6 million holding the property for 12 months. They did not perform any major renovations.

2022: In February 2022 Ellen and Portia paid $21 million for a property in Montecito known as “Villa Tragara.” The 2.5-acre property features as 12,000 square-foot mansion

In April 2022 Ellen DeGeneres paid $13.5 million for yet another home in Montecito.

Ellen DeGeneres Biography:

Birth nameEllen Lee DeGeneres
BornJanuary 26, 1958 (age 65)
Metairie, Louisiana, U.S.
MediumStand-up,television,film,books
Alma materUniversity of New Orleans
Years active1978–present
GenresObservational comedysatiresurreal humoranti-humordeadpanclean comedy
Subject(s)American culturepop culturesexualitycurrent events
SpousePortia de Rossi ​(m. 2008)​
Parent(s)Betty DeGeneres
Relative(s)Vance DeGeneres (brother)

Ellen DeGeneres was born on January 26, 1958, in Metairie, Louisiana. Ellen DeGeneres mother Elizabeth was a speech therapist and her father Elliott was an insurance agent. She has a brother named Vance who is a musician and producer.

Ellen DeGeneres Biography
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Ellen DeGeneres parents divorced n 1974. Shortly after, Ellen’s mother married Roy Gruessendorf, a salesman. Betty Jane and Ellen moved with Gruessendorf from the New Orleans area to Atlanta, Texas. Vance stayed with his father.

When Ellen DeGeneres was 15 or 16 years old, she was molested by her stepfather.

Ellen DeGeneres graduated from Atlanta High School in 1976 and moved back to New Orleans to attend the University of New Orleans. Ellen DeGeneres dropped out after one semester to take a clerical job at a law firm. She also worked at J.C. Penney, was a waitress at TGIFridays,  house painter, hostess, and bartender.

Ellen DeGeneres Career:

During the early years when Ellen DeGeneres was working odd jobs, she also started trying out her stand-up comedy routines at coffee houses and small clubs. By 1981, Ellen DeGeneres was working as the emcee at New Orleans’ Clyde’s Comedy Club. Ellen DeGeneres 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.

Ellen DeGeneres landed her first regular role on a television show in 1989 on the Fox sitcom “Open House.” In 1992, Ellen DeGeneres 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 Ellen 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, Ellen 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.

In 2010, Ellen DeGeneres became a judge on “American Idol.” She replaced Paula Abdul. She left after one season, saying that it “didn’t feel like the right fit for me.”

Starting in the 2017-2018 television season, Ellen DeGeneres began hosting the game show “Ellen’s Game of Games” on NBC which expands on games played on her talk show.

Ellen DeGeneres has also hosted the Emmy Awards, Grammy Awards, and Academy Awards.

Ellen DeGeneres Partner:

Ellen DeGeneres came out as a lesbian in 1997. In 1997 itself, Ellen DeGeneres started dating actress Anne Heche. They dated until August 2000. From 2000 to 2004, Ellen DeGeneres was linked to actress Alexandra Hedison. In 2004, Ellen DeGeneres started dating actress Portia de Rossi. They married in August 2008 at their home in Beverly Hills, California. Ellen and Portia are vegans.

In January 2018, for Ellen DeGeneres 60th birthday  Portia de Rossi gifted Ellen a permanent gorilla home in Rwanda built in her name for the Digit Fund.  This gift was part of a new arm of the Digit Fund now called the Ellen DeGeneres Wildlife Fund.

Ellen DeGeneres Interesting facts:

Ellen DeGeneres has more than 77 million followers on Twitter and 55 million followers on Instagram, making her the one of the most followed user on Twitter and instagram.

Ellen DeGeneres is a fan of the NFL but does not follow one team; she has shown support for the New Orleans Saints and the Green Bay Packers, and attended a 2011 Saints practice session dressed as Packers Hall of Famer Don Hutson

Ellen DeGeneres Life lessons:

  • It is important to be sane ,hopeful even in your worst situations,else how come someone abused at a tender age of 15 by her step father, come out as successful as Ellen DeGeneres is.
  • Being honest to oneself is the most important choice we need to make to be at peace with oneself. Accepting who we are and being ok with one’s own identity is the key to enjoy life with our limitations. Why would someone as successful as Ellen DeGeneres come out in public about her lesbian identity. Ellen risked many things when she revealed about it but being honest, being ok with own’s identity is what mattered most.
  • Consistency is the key. We need to wake up each day ,do the same routine and give our best performance each day to be useful,to make others happy. Ellen DeGeneres has cosnsitently done shows non stop for last 40 years.