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Ellen DeGeneres Returns as Dory in New Pixar Short

4/25/2026

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Ellen DeGeneres returns to voice Dory in a new untitled Pixar short, with production begun.
Pixar has not announced a release date for the short, which follows DeGeneres’s Dory roles in Finding Nemo (2003) and Finding Dory (2016), grossing over $941 million and over $1 billion worldwide.
The project is one of DeGeneres’s first screen appearances since her 2024 Netflix stand-up special, with representation by WME and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.

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Ellen DeGeneres returns to voice Dory in a new untitled Pixar short, with production begun.
Pixar has not announced a release date for the short, which follows DeGeneres’s Dory roles in Finding Nemo (2003) and Finding Dory (2016), grossing over $941 million and over $1 billion worldwide.
The project is one of DeGeneres’s first screen appearances since her 2024 Netflix stand-up special, with representation by WME and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.