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<\/h1>\n<\/h1>\nWe love featuring inspiring stories on SeniorAdvisor.com. In our monthly\u00a0Active Aging Role Model<\/strong> series, we feature a senior who\u2019s doing great things and living life with vibrancy. This week, we\u2019re honoring multi-award-winning actress and comedian\u00a0Betty White<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n It\u2019s difficult to single out actress Betty White\u2019s most impressive achievement; after all, her career includes eight Emmys, three Screen Actors Guild awards, a Grammy, and many other prestigious awards. But what truly makes her an Active Aging Role Model is probably the fact that her career spans more than 75 years, and does so with sustained quality. <\/span><\/p>\n For example, White holds the record for longest span of time between first and most recent Emmy nominations (60 years separate the two), and continues to garner praise from younger and younger generations. This year, she received The People\u2019s Choice Award for \u201cFavorite TV Icon,\u201d and, in 2010, was the recipient of a successful grassroots Facebook campaign to have her host Saturday Night Live. When she did so in March 2010, she became the oldest person ever to host the popular comedy skit show, at the age of 88.<\/span><\/p>\n Betty White with husband Allen Ludden<\/p><\/div>\n Betty White was born in 1922 and as a child, her family moved to California from Illinois during the Great Depression. She originally thought she wanted to be a writer, but during a school play, she realized her love for acting. She would later go on to begin a career in radio, and move eventually to television where she would truly find her calling. Her first noteworthy role was a guest appearance on \u201cThe Mary Tyler Moore Show\u201d that would soon turn into a recurring character spot. Soon after, White would host her own sitcom, \u201cThe Betty White Show.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The Golden Girls Cast<\/p><\/div>\n Younger generations may remember her as the sweet but gullible Rose Nylund in her Emmy-winning role as \u201cThe Golden Girls.\u201d Sadly, White is the only remaining living Golden Girl, but her character became one of her best-known and loved among sitcom watchers in the late 1980s. White was nominated for an Emmy for every year of the show\u2019s run, which lasted from 1985 to 1992.<\/span><\/p>\n You might think that an Emmy would be high point at which to close out your career. White, instead, continued to evolve her career for two more decades. She went on to numerous roles including 22 appearances on the soap opera, \u201cThe Bold and Beautiful,\u201d as well as countless guest spots on popular sitcoms, dramas, and late night talk show skits. Of course, some appearances involved a reprisal of her Rose character in various other settings or plotlines.<\/span><\/p>\n The Cast of Hot in Cleveland<\/p><\/div>\n In 2009, she played a key role in the movie \u201cThe Proposal,\u201d where she starred as Ryan Reynold\u2019s sweet but high-spirited grandmother living in Alaska. In 2010, she became one of the four key characters in the TV Land show, \u201cIt\u2019s Always Hot in Cleveland,\u201d a role for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.<\/span><\/p>\n The list of her activities and awards continues on. Betty White reminds us all that when you find your passion, there\u2019s no reason you can\u2019t pursue it for your entire life. If you are open to evolving and don\u2019t take yourself to seriously, you can use your talents even at age 93 and beyond.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Active Aging Role Model: Betty White We love featuring inspiring stories on SeniorAdvisor.com. In our monthly\u00a0Active Aging Role Model series, we feature a senior who\u2019s doing great things and living life with vibrancy. This week, we\u2019re honoring multi-award-winning actress and comedian\u00a0Betty White. It\u2019s difficult to single out actress Betty White\u2019s most impressive achievement; after all, her career includes eight Emmys, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,161],"tags":[42,452,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-7054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-families-caregivers","7":"category-memories","8":"tag-active-retirement","9":"tag-inspiring-seniors","10":"tag-senior-health"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"Betty](\"https:\/\/s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/img.prod.aplaceformom.com\/main\/uploads\/sa-blog\/2015\/12\/tumblr_mw0erudCy51s82cq0o1_5001-350x283.jpg\")
\nHer career would only gain momentum from there. The character you envision when you hear Betty White\u2019s name depends largely on your own age. Many seniors may remember her as \u201cThe Happy Homemaker,\u201d or her years as TV\u2019s \u201cFirst Lady of Game Shows.\u201d It was, in fact, on the game show \u201cPassword,\u201d where White would meet her husband and love of her life Allen Ludden, making them a power couple on the game show circuit.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/img.prod.aplaceformom.com\/main\/uploads\/sa-blog\/2015\/12\/380822_1268370552421_380_346-350x319.jpg\")
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