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Betty Marion White Ludden better known as Betty White was born on January 17, 1922, in Oak Park Illinois. Betty is an American actress, comedian, singer, author, and television personality. With a career that is over nine decades, she is best known for her television roles as Sue Ann Nivens on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rose Nylund on The Golden Girls. She is now the only surviving Golden Girl. She currently stars as Elka Ovstrosky in the show Hot In Cleveland. She also currently hosts the practical-joke show Betty White's off There Rockers.In May 2010, Betty became the oldest person to guest host Saturday Night Live. She has made regular appearances on the game shows Password and MatchGame and played recurring roles on Boston Legal, The Bold and The Beutiful, That 70's Show, and Community.

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Early life Betty grew up with her parents Horace and Tess. Her family moved to Los Angelos, california in the great depression, where she attended Horace Mann School in Beverly Hills, California and Beverly Hills high school. White began her television career three months after her high school graduation. She and a classmate sang songs from The Merry Widow on an experimental Los Angeles channel. Betty found work modeling and her first professional acting job was at the Bliss Hayden Little Theatre. White's career was disrupted immediately, as World War II broke out, causing her to join the American Women's Voluntary Services.

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Career In the 1940s, she worked in radio appearing on shows such as Blondie, The Great Gildersleeve and "This Is Your FBI". She then got her own radio show called The Betty White Show. In 1954 she briefly hosted and produced her own daily talk show The Betty White Show on NBC. Betty made many appearances on the hit game show Password as a guest celebrity from 1961 through 1975. In 1945, White married Dick Barker, a U.S. army corps pilot, the marriage was short-lived. In 1947, she married Lane Allen, a Hollywood agent. This marriage ended in divorce in 1949. On June 14, 1963, White married television host and personality Allen Ludden. Allen died from stomach cancer on June 9, 1981, in Los Angelos. They had no children together, though she is a stepmother to his three children from his first marriage. Betty has not remarried since Allen's death.

Achivements and Awards



Betty has won seven Emmy awards, three American Comedy awards and is in the Television hall of fame. She is the only person to have an Emmy in all female performing comedic categories. In 1983 she became the first woman to win a Daytime Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Game Show Host for the NBC entry Just Men! Since she has done a big amount of work on them she has been deemed the "First Lady of Game Shows". White won two back-to-back Emmy Awards for her role in the hugely popular series. White won one Emmy Award, for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series for the first season of The Golden Girls.

The Golden Girls and New Career Heights.

In 1985, she scored her second signature role and the biggest hit of her career as the St Olaf, Minnisota-native Rose Nylund on The Golden Girls.The series was about the lives of four widowed or divorced women in their golden years who shared a home in Miami. The Golden Girls which also starred Bea Arthur, Estelle getty, and Rue McClanahan was immensely successful and ran from 1985 through 1992. After The Golden Girls ended, White guest-starred on a number of television programs including Ally McBeal, The Ellen show, My Wife and Kids, That 70's Show, Everwood, Joey, and Malcolm in the Middle She received Emmy Award nominations for her appearances on Suddenly Susan, Yes, Dear and Practice.

Charity

Betty is an animal lover. She is a pet enthusiast and animal health advocate who works with a number of animal organizations, including the Los Angelos Zoo Commission, the Morris Animal Foundation, and Actors & Others for Animals. Her interest in animal rights and welfare began in the early 1970s while she was both producing and hosting the syndicated series, the pet set which spotlighted celebrities and their pets. She once was asked to play a big role in a show, but she did not like the way they were treating the dog in it so she decided to quit.

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