Betty White
Betty Marion White Ludden (conceived January 17, 1922) is an American performing artist and comic, with the longest TV profession of any female performer. Viewed as a pioneer of TV, she was one of the primary ladies to have control both before and behind the camera and is perceived as the main lady to deliver a sitcom (Life with Elizabeth), which added to her accepting the privileged title Mayor of Hollywood in 1955.
She is referred to for her honor winning jobs as Sue Ann Nivens on The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1973– 77) and Rose Nylund on The Golden Girls (1985– 92) – the Writers Guild of America has included the two sitcoms in its rundown of the 101 Best Written TV Series of All Time – and Elka Ostrovsky on Hot in Cleveland (2010– 15).
A staple visitor of numerous American diversion shows, for example, Password, Match Game, and The $25,000 Pyramid, White has been named the 'Principal Lady of Game Shows' and turned into the main lady to get an Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show Host in 1983 for the show Just Men! She is likewise known for her appearances on Boston Legal, Mama's Family, and Saturday Night Live.
In a profession that has spread over 80 years, she has gotten eight Emmy Awards in different classifications, three American Comedy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Grammy Award. She likewise has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, is a Television Hall of Fame inductee (class of 1995), and a Disney Legend (class of 2009)
Betty Marion White was conceived in Oak Park, Illinois, on January 17, 1922. She has expressed that Betty is her legitimate name and not an abbreviated rendition of Elizabeth. She is the single offspring of Christine Tess (née Cachikis; 1899– 1985), a homemaker, and Horace Logan White (1899– 1963), a lighting organization official. Her fatherly granddad was Danish and her maternal granddad was Greek, with her different roots being English and Welsh (both of her grandmas were Canadian).
White's family moved to Alhambra, California and later to Los Angeles, amid the Great Depression. To profit, her dad would construct radios and move them wherever he could. Since it was the stature of the Depression, and scarcely anybody had a sizable pay, he would exchange the radios in return for different merchandise, including hounds on a few events.
She went to Horace Mann School Beverly Hills and Beverly Hills High School, broadly utilized as a recording area for well known titles, for example, Clueless and It's a Wonderful Life, where she was an individual from the 1939 graduating class. Her enthusiasm for natural life was started by family get-aways to the High Sierras. She tried to end up a backwoods officer, however was not able achieve this fantasy since ladies were not permitted to fill in as officers. Rather, White sought after an enthusiasm for composing.
She composed and played the lead in a graduation play at Horace Mann School and found her enthusiasm for performing. Motivated by her objects of worship, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, she chose to seek after a profession as an on-screen character.
Honor winning jobs as Sue Ann Nivens
She is referred to for her honor winning jobs as Sue Ann Nivens on The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1973– 77) and Rose Nylund on The Golden Girls (1985– 92) – the Writers Guild of America has included the two sitcoms in its rundown of the 101 Best Written TV Series of All Time – and Elka Ostrovsky on Hot in Cleveland (2010– 15).
A staple visitor of numerous American
A staple visitor of numerous American diversion shows, for example, Password, Match Game, and The $25,000 Pyramid, White has been named the 'Principal Lady of Game Shows' and turned into the main lady to get an Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show Host in 1983 for the show Just Men! She is likewise known for her appearances on Boston Legal, Mama's Family, and Saturday Night Live.
In a profession that has spread over 80 years, she has gotten eight Emmy Awards in different classifications, three American Comedy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Grammy Award. She likewise has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, is a Television Hall of Fame inductee (class of 1995), and a Disney Legend (class of 2009)
Early life
Betty Marion White was conceived in Oak Park, Illinois, on January 17, 1922. She has expressed that Betty is her legitimate name and not an abbreviated rendition of Elizabeth. She is the single offspring of Christine Tess (née Cachikis; 1899– 1985), a homemaker, and Horace Logan White (1899– 1963), a lighting organization official. Her fatherly granddad was Danish and her maternal granddad was Greek, with her different roots being English and Welsh (both of her grandmas were Canadian).
White's family moved to Alhambra, California and later to Los Angeles, amid the Great Depression. To profit, her dad would construct radios and move them wherever he could. Since it was the stature of the Depression, and scarcely anybody had a sizable pay, he would exchange the radios in return for different merchandise, including hounds on a few events.
She went to Horace Mann School Beverly Hills and Beverly Hills High School, broadly utilized as a recording area for well known titles, for example, Clueless and It's a Wonderful Life, where she was an individual from the 1939 graduating class. Her enthusiasm for natural life was started by family get-aways to the High Sierras. She tried to end up a backwoods officer, however was not able achieve this fantasy since ladies were not permitted to fill in as officers. Rather, White sought after an enthusiasm for composing.
She composed and played the lead in a graduation play at Horace Mann School and found her enthusiasm for performing. Motivated by her objects of worship, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, she chose to seek after a profession as an on-screen character.