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{{Person
|name = Betty White
|first-name = Betty
|last-name = White
|image = Betty White.jpg
|birth = Betty Marion White<br />{{Time|January 17}}, {{Time|1922}}<br />Oak Park, Illinois, U.S.
|death = {{Time|December 31}}, {{Time|2021}} (aged 99)<br/>Los Angeles, California, U.S.
|deceased-cast = yes
|gender = Female
|credits = Voice actor
|portrays = [[Beatrice]]
|years = {{Time|2016}}
|cast = yes
}}
'''Betty White Ludden''' (born '''Betty Marion White'''; {{Time|January 17}}, {{Time|1922}} – {{Time|December 31}}, {{Time|2021}}; aged 99), known professionally as '''Betty White''', was an American actress, animal rights activist, author, comedian, radio host, singer, and television personality. Betty was best-known for her television role as Rose Nylund on the {{W|NBC}} sitcom ''[[w:c:goldengirls:The Golden Girls|The Golden Girls]]''. She also voiced a number of animated characters like Grammy Norma from 2012 film ''{{W|The Lorax (film)|The Lorax}}'' and [[w:c:pixar:Bitey White|Bitey White]] from 2019 film ''[[w:c:pixar:Toy Story 4|Toy Story 4]].

She was the voice of [[Beatrice]] in the episode "[[Mall Girl Pearl]]."

==Biography==
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Betty White was born in {{W|Oak Park, Illinois}}, on January 17, 1922. She stated that Betty was her legal name and not a shortened version of Elizabeth. She was the only child of Christine Tess, a homemaker, and Horace Logan White, a lighting company executive.

White's family moved to Alhambra, California in {{Time|1923}} when she was a little over a year old, and later to Los Angeles during The Great Depression. To make extra money, her father would build radios and sell them wherever he could. Since it was the height of the Depression, and hardly anyone had a sizable income, he would trade the radios in exchange for other goods, including dogs on some occasions.

She attended Horace Mann School in Beverly Hills, and Beverly Hills High School, graduating in 1939. Her interest in wildlife was sparked by family vacations to the High Sierras. She initially aspired to a career as a forest ranger, but was unable to accomplish this because women were not allowed to serve as rangers at that time. Instead, White pursued an interest in writing. She wrote and played the lead in a graduation play at Horace Mann School, and discovered her interest in performing. Inspired by her idols Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, she decided to pursue a career as an actress.

She passed away on December 31, 2021, 17 days before what would have been her 100th birthday from a stroke which she had suffered from on Christmas Day of that year.<ref>[https://www.tmz.com/2021/12/31/betty-white-dead-dies-golden-girls/ Betty White Dead at 99]</ref><ref>https://people.com/tv/betty-white-the-golden-girls-and-hot-in-cleveland-star-dead-at-99/</ref><ref>https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/betty-white-obituary-1.6301527</ref>
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==Credits==
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