Betty White

Betty White was born in Oak Park, Illinois, to Christine Tess (Cachikis), a homemaker, and Horace Logan White, a lighting company executive for the Crouse-Hinds Electric Company. She was of Danish, Greek, English, and Welsh descent. Although she was best known as the devious Sue Ann Nivens on the classic sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970) and the ditzy Rose Nylund on The Golden Girls (1985), Betty White had been in television for a long, long time before those two shows, having had her own series, Life with Elizabeth (1952) in 1952. She was married three times, lastly for eighteen years, until widowed, to TV game-show host Allen Ludden. She was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame and she was known for her tireless efforts on behalf of animals. Betty White died on 31 December 2021, at the age of 99.