US Report: Actress Betty White has died at the age of 99

Betty White, star of the sitcoms "Golden Girls," "Mary Tyler Moore's Show," "Equals in Cleveland" and many others, passed away two and a half weeks before her 100th birthday.

Throughout her long career White has won dozens of awards and continued to work in television and film until her final years

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A career of nine decades.

Betty White (Photo: AP)

American actress Betty White has died at the age of 99, about two and a half weeks before she was due to celebrate her 100th birthday on January 17, TMZ reports.

White's career spanned nine decades and included mostly starring in comedies, including legendary sitcoms such as "The Golden Girls" from 1985 to 1992 and four of the seven seasons of "Mary Tyler Moore's Show" from 1973 to 1977. For her roles in both series she She has won awards throughout her years in them. Among other things, she was awarded two Emmy Awards for "Mary Tyler Moore" and one for "Golden Girls" after her first season, although she continued to be nominated for it in each of the other six seasons - an exclusive achievement among her fellow cast members.

White was born on January 17, 1922 and grew up in California as the only child of her parents.

Shortly after graduating from high school in 1939 she worked in modeling and theater, and her attempts to get a job in Hollywood studios failed because they said she was not photogenic.

White turned to radio work, including commercial narration, skits, poetry and virtually anything given to her.

In 1949 one of these radio shows grew into television, and White began appearing alongside the announcer Al Jarvis as a co-host on "Hollywood on Television," a Variety show that aired six times a week, five and a half hours daily.

When he retired in 1951 and then also replaced Eddie Albert due to the great erosion in such a demanding show, White hosted the show alone for another year, thus becoming the first woman to host a TV show on her own.

For her work on the show she was nominated for the "Best Actress" award on television at the Young Emmy Awards.

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Betty White with Alan Laden, her first husband (Photo: AP)

During her work, White was a partner in the founding of the production company "Bendy Productions", whose main activity was to create new programs based on sketches that were born in the program "Hollywood on Television". The company's first product was the series "Life with Elizabeth" starring White, which aired between 1953 and 1955. A sitcom that followed a couple living in the suburbs and each episode consisted of a number of short episodes. The series aired on a local channel in Los Angeles and won White its first Emmy Award, one intended for programs airing in the Los Angeles area.

At the same time in 1954, "Bandy Productions" produced a daily talk show hosted by White. Creative freedom allowed her to hire a woman as a director and black dancer, Arthur Duncan, as part of the show's regular cast, which drew harsh criticism from her in the then-racist United States. White's response was to give him more screen time.

In the years that followed White often participated as a guest on television shows, in one of which, "Password," met who would be her first husband until his death in 1981, presenter Alan Laden.

Her connection to the field, especially in the fifties and sixties but even after that, earned her the nickname "First Lady of Amusement".

In 1983 she was the first woman to win an Emmy Award for directing a show.

White with the rest of the cast of "The Terry Myler Moore Show" and the Emmy Awards that won that year, 1976 (Photo: AP)

In 1973, White began appearing in the fourth season of the hit series "The Tyler Tyler Moore Show," a sitcom whose plot takes place in a television newsroom. White has won many accolades for her role as Ann Niven, a vicious and flirtatious presenter - the opposite of White's own image, a contrast that was one of the main reasons for joining the cast. The role lasted until the end of the series and earned White three nominations for Emmy, this time at the National and Central Ceremony, of which she won twice in a row.

With the end of the series, White starred in guest appearances on many shows, including sketches on "The Night Show with Johnny Carson" and "The Carol Burnett Show." A series of sketches on Brent's shows in 1983 resulted in the sitcom "Mama's Family," in which White occasionally starred in a guest role, including starring alongside Row McLanhan, with whom she starred in her next major series: "Golden Girls."

The popular sitcom, which came out in 1985 and became the biggest hit starring White, followed four divorced older women living together at home in Miami.

White played the naive and optimistic Rose Nailund, and besides her starred McLaughlin, Bee Arthur and Estelle Getty.

Throughout the seven seasons the series has been nominated for Emmy seven times, of which it has won for the first time.

At the end of the series, White continued with two of her colleagues (all except Getty) to the daughter series - "The Golden Palace", in which the companies move to a protected discussion.

The spin-off settled for one 24-episode season before being canceled in 1993.

The biggest hit.

"Golden Girls", of which White lasted the longest days (Photo: AP)

In 2010 White's popularity skyrocketed after she participated in a comedy commercial for sneakers during which she played football and was knocked to the ground.

The great sympathy for White, then 88, led to a campaign demanding that she be cast as the host of "Starday Night Live," which indeed happened in May of that year and made her the oldest host to host the iconic sketch show, and even won her another Emmy Award.

That same year she even began starring in the comedy series "Equal in Cleveland," which lasted six seasons, alongside Wendy Malik, Jane Liebes and Valerie Bertinley.

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Betty White's wins at Emmy over the years

"The First Lady of Television"

Her first sitcom - Life with Elizabeth 1953-1955

Betty White's opening remarks on SNL

White's sketch on SNL

White with her friends for "Equals in Cleveland" (Photo: GettyImages)

Betty White Receives Lifetime Achievement Award at Emmy Awards of Today's Programs, 2015 (Photo: AP)

Betty White, B. Arthur and Roe McLennhan Receive Pop Culture Award at TV Land Awards, 2008 (Photo: AP)

Betty White in her 20s (Photo: GettyImages, Hulton Archive)

Betty White in her 90s (Photo: AP)

Throughout the decades, White has been featured in dozens of series, including "Eli Parallel," "Bones," "Malcolm in the Middle," "Rock 30," "Community," "The 70s Show," "A Good Place in the Middle," and even "The Hippies and the Brave." "Between the years 2006 and 2009.

White has also co-starred in series such as "The Simpsons" (in the role itself) and "SpongeBob SquarePants," and films such as "Toy Story 4," "Mess on Four" and others.

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