Ellen DeGeneres has returned to the entertainment business to reprise her voice role as Dory in a new Pixar project. The former host of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, 68, will be featured in a short for the Finding Nemo universe, according to a Friday report from Deadline . The plot for the still-untitled short and release date plans have not yet been announced. The comedian later confirmed the news by sharing a screenshot of the Deadline report on her Instagram. “Excited about this,” she wrote in the caption. The new gig marks DeGeneres’s first acting project in five years. She was last featured in a 2021 mini-series, Pixar Popcorn , where she also voiced Dory. DeGeneres’ iconic animated character is a lovable and talkative blue tang fish who suffers from short-term memory loss. In Finding Nemo , released in 2003, Dory helps clownfish Marlin in his search for his young son, Nemo.…