FIRST LADY OF TELEVISION
Actress, comedian, singer, author, television personality. The multitalented and prolific Betty White has garnered the love of generations through a career that spans seven decades. Betty’s admirers are many. Her style of humor is completely her own and touches viewers young and old.
2012 TV INDUCTEE
Breakout Roles
At 31, she became one of the first women to co-produce a television sitcom with “Life with Elizabeth.” Also the show’s lead actress, she was nominated for her first Emmy in 1951. From that short-lived series, she proved her versatility by taking on roles as the perfectionist homemaker Sue Anne Nivens on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and naive Rose Nylund on “The Golden Girls.”
Unstoppable Betty
Well into her 90s, she continues to break boundaries and challenges assumptions about age, all while publishing books and starring in hit shows like “Hot in Cleveland” and “Betty White’s Off Their Rocker.” White juggles multiple projects with the grace, humor and energy of someone a third her age.
Betty White, 1977.
Betty White holding an Emmy Award circa 1986.