She also drew laughs with her one-liners in the 2009 comedy “The Proposal” and the horror spoof “Lake Placid.” At 88, she hosted “Saturday Night Live” in 2011, becoming the oldest person to host the variety show.
White once said her character Sue Ann Nivens in “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” could be “icky-sweet” but was “really a piranha type.” That role earned her two Emmys. Over the span of her career, White was honored with a total of eight Emmy Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015.
White also became a role model for how to grow old joyously.
“Don’t try to be young,” she once told The Associated Press. “Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won’t live long enough to find out about, but I’m still curious about them.”
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Born Betty Marion White in Oak Park, Illinois, White and her family moved to Los Angeles when she was a toddler.
“I’m an only child, and I had a mother and dad who never drew a straight line: They just thought funny,” she told The Associated Press in 2015. “We’d sit around the breakfast table, and then we’d start kicking it around. My dad was a salesman, and he would come home with jokes. He’d say, `Sweetheart, you can take THAT one to school. But I wouldn’t take THIS one.′ We had such a wonderful time.”
Her early ambition was to be a writer, and she wrote her grammar school graduation play, giving herself the leading role.
At Beverly Hills High School, her ambition turned to acting, and she appeared in several school plays. Her parents hoped she’d go to college, but instead she took roles in a small theater and played bit parts in radio dramas.
After marrying twice, White married game show host Allen Ludden in 1963. The marriage lasted until his death from cancer in 1981.
Off-screen, White was an animal advocate, raising money for animal causes such as the Morris Animal Foundation and the Los Angeles Zoo. In 1970-1971, she wrote, produced and hosted a syndicated TV show, “The Pet Set,” to which celebrities brought their dogs and cats. She also wrote a 1983 book titled “Betty White’s Pet Love: How Pets Take Care of Us,” and, in 2011, published “Betty & Friends: My Life at the Zoo.”
