Betty White, the five-time Emmy Award-winning actress whose career spanned six decades and included pivotal roles on some of TV’s most influential shows like The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Golden Girls, died at 99 years age.
The legendary comedic actress would have turned 100 after some days. White officially hit the TV airwaves in 1949 on the local variety show Hollywood on Television and went on to produce and star in the show’s domestic spin-off comedy, Life With Elizabeth.
An assortment of short-lived roles followed, including an eponymous variety show and the first of her famed spots on game shows, from What’s My Line to Make the Connection to Password. Years later, White appeared on other game shows, including Pyramid and Match Game, as well as hosted NBC’s Just Men! (for which she won a Daytime Emmy).
The first of White’s two most famous TV roles began in 1973, when she joined the cast of the super-successful sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show, playing “happy homemaker” Sue Ann Nivens, which won her two Emmys. In 1985, she Rose Nylund in The Golden Girls.
She was nominated for an Emmy during each of the show’s seven seasons and won in its first. In her later years, White appeared on The John Larroquette Show, The Practice, Boston Legal, The Bold and the Beautiful, My Name Is Earl, and Community, and TV Land’s Hot in Cleveland. She also had a memorable turn in the rom-com The Proposal.
