Betty White, v celoti Betty Marion White, (rojena 17. januarja 1922, Oak Park, Illinois, ZDA), ameriška igralka, najbolj znana po komičnem delu na številnih televizijskih sitkomih, med katerimi sta najbolj znana The Mary Tyler Moore Show in The Golden Girls.
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White je odraščal v Los Angelesu. V štiridesetih letih je nastopala v različnih radijskih oddajah, leta 1949 pa se je začela redno pojavljati na televiziji, saj je v Hollywoodu na televiziji delala kot "dekliški petek". Pozneje je postala voditeljica šova in leta 1952 je ustanovila Bandy Productions za razvoj lastnih projektov. Kasneje istega leta se je premierno prikazal televizijski sitcom Life z Elizabeth. White je igrala naslovno vlogo - poročena ženska, ki v različnih težavah preizkuša potrpljenje svojega moža - poleg tega, da je ustvarila šov in producirala šov, ki je trajal do leta 1955. Dve leti pozneje je igrala v seriji Datum z angeli, komični pogled domače življenje. White je nato postal pogost gost v televizijskih oddajah, med drugim tudi povem resnico, kaj je moja linija in geslo. Slednjega je gostil Allen Ludden.White in Ludden sta se poročila leta 1963 in bila skupaj do njegove smrti leta 1981.
Leta 1973 se je White začel pojavljati na reviji The Mary Tyler Moore, sitcomu v televizijski redakciji. White se je pohvalila s svojo upodobitvijo Sue Ann Nivens, pohotne in spogledljive voditeljice oddaje "Veseli domači". Za svoje delo je prejela tri nominacije za nagrado Emmy, in sicer je zmagala v letih 1975 in 1976. Potem ko se je serija končala leta 1977, je White ostal vodilni igralec na televiziji, ki je igral v oddaji The Betty White Show (1977–78) in se pozneje pojavljal v ponavljajočih se vlogah na takšnih programih kot ljubezenski čoln in mamina družina.
The Golden Girls debuted in 1985, starring—in addition to White as the innocent and highly optimistic Rose Nylund—Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty. The series, centred on a group of older women living together in Miami, became a major success. White earned seven Emmy nominations and won the award in 1986. After the show ended in 1992, White played Nylund on the spin-off series The Golden Palace, which ran for one season. White later acted on That’70s Show, Boston Legal, and the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. In 1996 she won an Emmy for her guest appearance on The John Larroquette Show.
In 2010 White experienced a major surge in popularity, fueled in part by a humorous Super Bowl commercial in which she was tackled during a recreational football game. Fans subsequently launched a Facebook campaign to have the 88-year-old actress host Saturday Night Live. In May 2010 she became the comedy show’s oldest host, and White later received an Emmy Award for her performance. In June Hot in Cleveland debuted on the cable channel TV Land. The sitcom starred White as Elka, the quick-witted caretaker of a home rented by three women. The show ran until 2015. She also hosted and served as an executive producer for Betty White’s Off Their Rockers (2012–14), a reality show in which senior citizens played pranks on unsuspecting younger people. White later hosted Betty White’s Smartest Animals in America (2015).
Although much of her work was for television, White also appeared in several movies. In 1962 she made her feature-film debut in Advise & Consent, and her later movies included the thriller Lake Placid (1999) and the romantic comedies The Proposal (2009) and You Again (2010). In 2019 she voiced the character Bitey White, a teething ring, in the animated feature Toy Story 4.
In addition to her acting, White was noted as an animal rights activist. She penned the memoirs Here We Go Again: My Life in Television (1995) and If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won’t) (2011). Her audiobook recording of the latter won a Grammy Award for best spoken-word album. White was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1995.
