BIOGRAPHY:
Ellen Lee DeGeneres was born on January 26, 1958 in Metairei, Louisiana, to her father Elliot DeGeneres, an insurance salesman, and her mother Betty, a real-estate agent. After her parents divorced when she was 16, Ellen experimented with humor to console her mother, telling Teen People in 2006, "I was helping [my mother] cope with a broken heart. It brought...
