--- title: Ellen DeGeneres as Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey Movie description: Full video of Ellen as Anastasia Steele in hilarious Fifty Shades of Grey movie parody canonical: https://time.com/3607267/50-shades-of-grey-ellen-degeneres-show-parody-video/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-26T16:18:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:14:51.533Z og:title: WATCH: Ellen DeGeneres as Anastasia Steele in Hilarious 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Movie Parody og:description: What if Ellen replaced actress Dakota Johnson as Christian Grey's (Jamie Dornan) soul mate in the upcoming film? og:url: https://time.com/3607267/50-shades-of-grey-ellen-degeneres-show-parody-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: WATCH: Ellen DeGeneres as Anastasia Steele in Hilarious 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Movie Parody twitter:description: What if Ellen replaced actress Dakota Johnson as Christian Grey's (Jamie Dornan) soul mate in the upcoming film? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Ellen DeGeneres Plays Anastasia Steele in Hilarious _Fifty Shades of Grey_ Movie Parody > Sponsored content. 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DeGeneres just unveiled her own part in the erotic bestseller turned Hollywood film on her show _Ellen,_ and it’s a winner. While _Fifty Shades_ claims to have cast Dakota Johnson as the film’s wide-eyed lead, Anastasia Steele, DeGeneres revealed that it’s all been a ruse, and she is actually the star of the film and has the trailer to prove it. In the clip, DeGeneres stares balefully at the film’s charismatic and chiseled male protagonist, Christian Grey (played by Jamie Dornan), as she interviews him in his austere offices, watches him play piano and kisses him on the streets of Seattle. With just one glance at DeGeneres as Anastasia Steele, it’s clear that poor, troubled Christian Grey has finally met his true soul mate—as long as she gets the popcorn off her face. **MORE:** [Check Out the New Photo From the _Fifty Shades of Grey_ Movie](http://time.com/3329319/fifty-shades-of-grey/) [Here’s the _Frozen_ and _Fifty Shades of Grey_ Mashup Nobody Asked For](http://time.com/3111345/frozen-fifty-shades-of-grey-mashup-video/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3607267/50-shades-of-grey-ellen-degeneres-show-parody-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3607267/50-shades-of-grey-ellen-degeneres-show-parody-video/"},"headline":"Ellen DeGeneres Plays Anastasia Steele in Hilarious Fifty Shades of Grey Movie Parody","datePublished":"2014-11-26T16:18:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:14:51.533Z","description":"Christian Grey has finally found his soul mate.","url":"https://time.com/3607267/50-shades-of-grey-ellen-degeneres-show-parody-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","viral","Videos","Ellen Degeneres","celebrity","Viral Videos","ellen","50 shades of grey"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3607267/50-shades-of-grey-ellen-degeneres-show-parody-video/","name":"Ellen DeGeneres Plays Anastasia Steele in Hilarious Fifty Shades of Grey Movie Parody"}}]}] ```