‘Golden Girls,’ ‘Mary Tyler Moore’ star Betty White dies at 99 – Everett Post

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Betty White, the award-winning actress and comedian famous for her roles on The Golden Girls and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, has died at the age of 99, ABC News has confirmed.

Your longtime agent and friend, Jeff VitjasShe told ABC News in a statement: “Betty had an amazing life and career and she was one of the positive people I know. I know she’s happy to be reunited with her [late husband] All Ludden. “

Best known for her television roles as Sue Ann Nivens on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rose Nylund in The Golden Girls, White made her popular with audiences for decades. In an interview published earlier this month, she told People magazine that one of her secrets to aging gracefully is to maintain her optimism.

“I’m so happy to be in such good health and feel so good at this age,” she told the magazine. “It is wonderful.”

In 2013, White was named the longest television career by a female entertainer in the Guinness Book of Records.

During his 75+ year career, White received 23 Emmy nominations and won six. She also held the record for oldest Emmy nominee overall, receiving her last nomination in 2012 at the age of 90.

Betty Marion White was born an only child in Oak Park, Illinois and moved to Los Angeles with her parents when she was 2 years old. She began her radio career as a singer and voice actress.

Her big television break came in 1949 when she co-hosted a daily live variety show, Hollywood on Television. Based on one of the skits from the show, White and two others developed the sitcom Life with Elizabeth, in which she played the title character. The show was a huge career boost, and White became one of Hollywood’s first female producers.

White later appeared on other sitcoms, late night talk shows, and daytime game shows. While appearing on the Password game show in 1961, White met her third husband, the host All Ludden. The couple stayed married for 18 years until Ludden died of stomach cancer in 1981. White never married again. As the stepmother of Ludden’s three children, White never had children of her own.

White’s career took a huge boost in the 1970s when she was cast on the Mary Tyler Moore Show. As Sue Ann Nivens, White showed the audience a sly joke that was behind her cute smile. In contrast, her character in the hit sitcom The Golden Girls of the 80s, opposite Rue McClanahan, Bea Arthur and Estelle Getty, was, as White put it, “utterly naive”.

After the Golden Girls ended in 1992, after seven seasons, White starred on a number of shows including Ally McBeal, The Ellen Show, That ’70s Show, and Malcolm in the Middle. She played her last roles for six seasons as Elka Ostrovsky on the sitcom Hot in Cleveland and hosted the joke show Betty Whites Off Their Rockers.

Her career took off again in the mid-2000s when White appeared on the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful and played along with the other Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds in the comedy film The Proposal. As her popularity continued to grow with new generations of fans, White became the oldest Saturday Night Live presenter at the age of 88 in 2010 after a widespread Facebook campaign called “Betty White to Host SNL (Please)” was launched.

Off-screen, White was a passionate advocate of animals and pets.