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 Mary Tyler Moore (1970) and the ditzy Rose Nylund on Super Gatas (1985), Betty White had been in television for a long, long time before those two shows, having had her own series, A Vida com 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.