Power 50: Ellen DeGeneres

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DeGeneres was also named one of 2015's most powerful women in the world by Forbes, which cited her $75 million in earnings last year. A highlight of the latest season of her talk show (which has raked in dozens of Daytime Emmys) was when she confronted Caitlyn Jenner on the former Olympian's gay marriage views, an exchange that prompted a shift in Jenner's position. This summer, DeGeneres will reprise her popular voice role in the much-anticipated Disney/Pixar film Finding Dory.