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Portia DeGeneres is a Actor Australienne born on 31 january 1973 at Horsham (Australie)

Portia DeGeneres

Portia DeGeneres
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Birth name Amanda Lee Rogers
Nationality Australie
Birth 31 january 1973 (51 years) at Horsham (Australie)

Portia Lee James DeGeneres (born Amanda Lee Rogers; 31 January 1973), known professionally as Portia de Rossi /ˈpɔərʃə də ˈrɒsi/, is an Australian American actress, model and philanthropist, known for her roles as lawyer Nelle Porter on the television series Ally McBeal and Lindsay Fünke on the sitcom Arrested Development. She also portrayed Veronica Palmer on the ABC sitcom Better Off Ted and Olivia Lord on Nip/Tuck. She is married to American stand-up comedian, television host and actress Ellen DeGeneres. She currently stars on Scandal as Elizabeth North.

Biography

De Rossi was married to documentary film-maker Mel Metcalfe from 1996 to 1999, initially part of a plan to get a green card, but she did not go through with it. She said that "it just obviously wasn't right for me". In a 2010 interview on Good Morning America, she explained that as a young actress, she was fearful of being exposed as a lesbian.

From 2000 to 2004, de Rossi dated director Francesca Gregorini, the daughter of Barbara Bach and the stepdaughter of Ringo Starr. She said that most of her family and Ally McBeal castmates did not know she was a lesbian until tabloid pictures of the couple were published. She declined to publicly discuss the relationship or her sexual orientation at the time.

De Rossi and Gregorini broke up in late 2004 because de Rossi began dating Ellen DeGeneres, whom she met backstage at an awards show. In 2005, she opened up publicly about her sexual orientation in interviews with Details and The Advocate. She and DeGeneres became engaged when DeGeneres proposed with a three-carat pink diamond ring. They were married at their Beverly Hills home on 16 August 2008, witnessed by their mothers and 17 other guests. On 6 August 2010, Portia filed a petition to legally change her name to Portia Lee James DeGeneres. The petition was granted on 23 September 2010. She became a United States citizen in September 2011.

In 2010, de Rossi published the autobiography Unbearable Lightness which talks about the turmoil that she has experienced in her life, including suffering from anorexia nervosa and bulimia and being misdiagnosed with lupus. She had struggled with the eating disorders for four years while filming Ally McBeal. To promote the book, she appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

In 2013, de Rossi announced that she and DeGeneres were not planning on having children.

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Doc Kane
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John Duigan
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Filmography of Portia DeGeneres (12 films)

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Actress

Unity
Unity (2015)
, 1h39
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Actors Aaron Paul, Adam Levine, Adrian Grenier, Lena Headey, Alison Eastwood, Amanda Seyfried
Roles Narrator (voice)
Rating72% 3.643213.643213.643213.643213.64321
UNITY will be a documentary that explores humanity’s transformation. It will be a film about "compassion for all beings", all “expressions of life”, and going beyond any and all “separation based on form”. The film is presented in five chapters: 'Cosmic', 'Mind', 'Body', 'Heart' and 'Soul'.
Mockingbird Lane, 43minutes
Directed by Bryan Singer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film, Vampires in film, Comedy horror films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Jerry O'Connell, Portia DeGeneres, Eddie Izzard, Charity Wakefield, Mason Cook, Cheyenne Jackson
Roles Lily Munster
Rating71% 3.595763.595763.595763.595763.59576
Les Munster sont une famille tout ce qu'il y a de plus monstrueux ! Herman, le chef du clan, ressemble à s'y méprendre à la créature de Frankenstein. Lily et Grandpa sont des vampires. Quant à Eddie, le fils, c'est un loup-garou. Mais à part ces petites fantaisies, ils sont des gens comme tout le monde.
Cursed
Cursed (2005)
, 1h37
Directed by Wes Craven
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes L'adolescence, Films about animals, Films about education, Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film, Comedy horror films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Films about school violence, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Christina Ricci, Joshua Jackson, Jesse Eisenberg, Judy Greer, Mýa, Michael Rosenbaum
Roles Zela
Rating50% 2.5043652.5043652.5043652.5043652.504365
The film begins in Hollywood Los Angeles, when two friends, Jenny Tate and Becky Morton, are at a pier and decide to get their fortune told by Zela, asking about a boy. Zela foretells that they will suffer a horrible fate, but they don't believe her and walk away laughing. A little while later, Becky realizes Jenny has disappeared and can't find her on the pier.
Dead & Breakfast, 1h28
Directed by Matthew Leutwyler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Musical
Themes Medical-themed films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Films about disabilities, Comedy horror films, Disaster films, Sign-language films, American Sign Language films, Films about language and translation
Actors Ever Carradine, Gina Philips, Erik Palladino, Bianca Lawson, Jeremy Sisto, Oz Perkins
Roles Kelly - The Bride
Rating56% 2.8492652.8492652.8492652.8492652.849265
Six friends, Christian, David, Kate, Johnny, Sara, and Melody, are traveling in an R.V. to get to the wedding of their friend, Kelly, in Galveston, Texas. However they become lost in a small town called Lovelock, and decide to spend the night at the local bed and breakfast, owned by the creepy Mr. Wise. While staying, the group insult the chef, Henri, causing an argument to break out. After everyone goes to bed, David goes to the kitchen to get a snack, only to discover Henri brutally murdered, before Mr Wise suffers a heart attack.
I Witness
I Witness (2003)

Directed by Rowdy Herrington
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Jeff Daniels, James Spader, Portia DeGeneres, Clifton Collins, Jr., Wade Williams, Yan England
Roles Emily Thompson (as Portia De Rossi)
Rating58% 2.900872.900872.900872.900872.90087
On his last assignment prior to resigning, burned out human rights activist James Rhodes (Daniels) arrives in Tijuana to help oversee local union elections. While there, he becomes embroiled in the investigation of a mass murder in what appears to be a drug runners' tunnel on the Tijuana/San Diego border. He teams up with a local street cop (Collins) and a US official (de Rossi) all under the watchful eye of State Department attache Spader, eager to pin the killings on a drug cartel. But when Rhodes (Daniels) links the human rights atrocity to the murder of two American teenage dirt bikers, he uncovers a web of corruption between a US corporation and the local police, only to realize that he himself has become a dangerous liability to those who pull the puppet strings on one of the world's most dangerous borders.
The Night We Called It a Day, 1h37
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about television, Musical films
Actors Dennis Hopper, Melanie Griffith, Portia DeGeneres, Joel Edgerton, Rose Byrne, David Hemmings
Roles Hilary Hunter
Rating57% 2.8999252.8999252.8999252.8999252.899925
In 1974, Rod Blue is a surfer with shoulder-length hair in Sydney, Australia who also stages rock concerts, unsuccessfully most of the time. Needing a big idea, he decides to fly to Los Angeles, make himself more presentable and try to persuade Frank Sinatra to come to Australia to sing.
Who Is Cletis Tout?, 1h32
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Christian Slater, Richard Dreyfuss, Tim Allen, Portia DeGeneres, RuPaul, Billy Connolly
Roles Tess Donnelly
Rating62% 3.1468153.1468153.1468153.1468153.146815
The film is told primarily in flashback, as the film first follows a hitman, Critical Jim (Tim Allen), who follows and holds at gunpoint a man he believes is Cletis Tout - but who actually is Finch (Christian Slater). Because Critical Jim is so fond of film noir and other classic films (such as Casablanca and Breakfast at Tiffany's), he's willing to listen to Finch as he tells his story, imagining it as a film in progress. Finch obliges, explaining how he got to be mistaken for Cletis Tout.
Stigmata
Stigmata (1999)
, 1h43
Directed by Rupert Wainwright
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about religion
Actors Patricia Arquette, Gabriel Byrne, Jonathan Pryce, Nia Long, Rade Šerbedžija, Enrico Colantoni
Roles Jennifer Kelliho
Rating62% 3.1005353.1005353.1005353.1005353.100535
The film opens in the Brazilian village of Belo Quinto, with Father Andrew Kiernan (Gabriel Byrne), a former scientist and an ordained Jesuit priest who investigates supposed miracles, examining a statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe weeping blood at the funeral of Father Paulo Alameida (Jack Donner). While Andrew is collecting evidence, a young boy steals the rosary from the father's hand. The boy later sells it to a woman in a marketplace, who sends it to her atheist daughter Frankie Paige (Patricia Arquette) living in Pittsburgh.
Girl
Girl (1998)
, 1h39
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about virginity
Actors Dominique Swain, Sean Patrick Flanery, Summer Phoenix, Tara Reid, Selma Blair, Channon Roe
Roles Carla
Rating56% 2.848322.848322.848322.848322.84832
Andrea Marr (Dominique Swain) is a bright, straight-A, mature, 18-year-old high school senior on the verge of womanhood who decides to abandon her sheltered, boring lifestyle and her bookish friend Darcy (Selma Blair) for a look into the local rock and roll scene. There she meets local rock singer Todd Sparrow (Sean Patrick Flanery), with whom she has a groupie fling. Aspiring rock star Cybil (Tara Reid), fellow student outgoing fellow groupie Rebecca (Summer Phoenix) guide Andrea during her time as a groupie.
Scream 2
Scream 2 (1997)
, 2h
Directed by Wes Craven
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror comedy, Horror, Slasher
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Serial killer films, Comedy horror films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Jamie Kennedy, Sarah Michelle Prinze, Elise Neal
Roles Sorority Sister Murphy
Rating63% 3.1517253.1517253.1517253.1517253.151725
While attending a preview of the film Stab, a film within a film based on the Woodsboro murders depicted in Scream, two Ohio Windsor College seniors, Maureen Evans and Phil Stevens are murdered by Ghostface. Phil is stabbed through the ear in a bathroom stall while trying to eavesdrop on strange whimpering noises. The killer, wearing a Ghostface costume, then returns to the screening and sits beside Maureen, before mortally stabbing her. At first the audience believe she is part of the raucuous acting out by audience members, until she falls dead in front of the cinema screen.
Sirens
Sirens (1994)
, 1h36
Directed by John Duigan
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films
Actors Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald, Sam Neill, Elle Macpherson, Portia DeGeneres, Kate Fischer
Roles Giddy
Rating58% 2.948572.948572.948572.948572.94857
Tony, an Anglican priest newly arrived in Australia from England, is asked to visit the notorious artist Norman Lindsay, out of the church's concern about a blasphemous painting of the crucifix that the artist plans to exhibit.