BREAKING: NBC News Special Report: Betty White has died at age 99.
. But over the ensuing decades, White endeared herself to generations with a series of memorable roles, including on"The Mary Tyler Moore Show" ,"The Golden Girls" and"Hot in Cleveland" .
In a Snickers commercial that premiered during the 2010 Super Bowl telecast, she impersonated an energy-sapped dude getting tackled during a backlot football game. Born Betty Marion White on Jan. 17, 1922, in Oak Park, Illinois, the future TV star was the only child of an electrical engineer father and homemaker mother. The family moved much closer to the center of the entertainment industry, Los Angeles, two years later.
in 2010. “He'd write the script and we'd film it. When he drove me home, we'd talk about next week's show.” on her way to becoming a staple on television as both a go-to guest star and a regular on the game show circuit.
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