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Betty White Betty Marion White was born on January 17, 1922, in Oak Park, Illinois. She was an only child of Horace and Tess White, an electrical engineer and a homemaker. She moved to Los Angeles with her family when she was two years old.
Her career started as an assistant at a local L.A. TV station, and she launched her first television series, Life with Elizabeth, in the early 1950s. She was one of the first women producers in Hollywood.
She became a favorite of talk-show host Jack Paar, on the Tonight Show, and she made regular appearances on the game show Password, where she met her third husband, Allen Ludden.
She rose to stardom on The Mary Tyler Moore Show in the role of Sue Ann Nivens, a co-worker Mary in a Minneapolis television newsroom. She was known for making funny and poignant quips at Moore's expense and won two Emmy Awards for her performance on the series.
On the popular 1980s sitcom The Golden Girls, Betty played the role of naive Rose Nylund together with Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty. The series ran for seven seasons and won numerous awards, including another Emmy Award for White.
After The Golden Girls went off the air, Betty appeared in many television series. She even received an Emmy award playing herself on The John Larroquette Show in 1996.
White enjoyed recurring roles on Boston Legal and the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. She also had a supporting role in 2009's romantic comedy The Proposal, which starred Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds.
In 2010, Betty appeared in a humorous candy bar ad in the Super Bowl, which quickly became an audience favorite. During May of that year, Betty was asked to host Saturday Night Live. She was reluctant to do the show at first, revealing it be the scariest thing she’d ever done. But the challenge turned out to be not only very funny, but it made her the oldest host to ever do the show.
Betty White also appeared in a television sitcom called Hot in Cleveland, and later hosted a show called Betty White's Off Their Rockers from 2012 to 2017. It featured an elderly group of pranksters who played jokes on younger generations. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for that show in 2012. During that same year, Betty celebrated her 90th birthday with an all-star television special that included: Mary Tyler Moore, Carl Reiner, Tina Fey and Ed Asner.
In August 2018, PBS aired Betty White: First Lady of Television, covering her 80-year career in show business. In 2019, Betty joined an all-star cast in the movie Toy Story 4, voicing a tiger teething toy named Bitey White.
Betty White died on December 31, 2021 at the age of 99.
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