Biography

Ellen was born in New York City. She graduated from George Washington High School and went on to Franklin Pierce College, in New Hampshire, for only one year. She left college and returned to New York with the knowledge that she needed to be around creative people. In 1973 she landed her first job at NBC, New York working for various Unit Managers doing game shows, Miss America Pageants, and the SkyLab Mission. From there she spent four years as a researcher on The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder. In 1976 the show moved back to NBC-Burbank and Ellen followed the crew out to Los Angeles. Shortly after arriving, Joel Tator, the Producer and Director of The Tomorrow Show, was launching "Two On The Town" the first magazine show at KNXT with Connie Chung and Steve Edwards. He took Ellen with him as a Researcher. In 1980 she began her career in sitcoms as a Writers Assistant on "Too Close For Comfort" with Ted Knight. Soon after that series she found herself working for Norman Lear on "Diff'Rent Strokes" and "The Jeffersons." She learned the ropes and knew that Script Supervising was her calling. It was while working at Witt-Thomas-Harris on "The Golden Girls" that she transitioned into that position when Jim Drake took her to do a new sitcom called "Boys Will Be Boys" with a young Matthew Perry. She has been working as a Script Supervisor ever since.
- IMDb mini biography by: Ellen Deutsch