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As a naive rose, she sometimes made her roommates despair – and many fans often laughed heartily. Betty White played one of the “Golden Girls” in the US series of the same name. The US actress died shortly before her 100th birthday.
The US actress Betty White has died at the age of 99. This is reported by several US media citing manager Jeff Witjas. White had been one of the big stars of US television for more than 60 years. She became famous – also in Germany – for her role in the sitcom “Golden Girls”.
In the series about four elderly women in a shared apartment, White once played the naive widow Rose Nylund. All of her colleagues from then died before her: serial mother “Sophia” (Estelle Getty) in 2008, “Dorothy” (Beatrice Arthur) in 2009 and “Blanche” (Rue McClanahan) in 2010.
First roles in the 1930s
For her 100th birthday on January 17th, White was supposed to get a TV special as a gift. In “Betty White: 100 Years Young – A Birthday Celebration” stars like Ryan Reynolds, Robert Redford and Jennifer Love Hewitt should congratulate, as US media had reported in advance.
White, who was born in Illinois in 1922, began her career long before the “Golden Girls”, which were broadcast in the USA from 1985 and in Germany from 1990 onwards. Immediately after high school, she got her first small roles on television and in the theater in the late 1930s and 1940s, and later she appeared primarily in talk shows and game shows.
Negative thinking “takes away too much energy”
Even after the “Golden Girls” she continued to get roles in TV and cinema. White, who was married three times with no children, also worked as a producer and has won dozens of awards, including numerous Emmys.
She was “blessed with good health,” White told People magazine on her 99th birthday. Also important: “A sense of humor. Seeing the positive side and not thinking too much about the negative side, that takes too much energy away.”