Betty White

White is well known as a pet enthusiast and animal-rights activist. Billingsley currently resides in Los Angeles, California and remains active in theater. She was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1995 and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame alongside the star of her late husband Allen Ludden. In 2002, he was a guest star in an episode of Stargate SG-1, playing a scientist who is also a Trekkie, "worship[ping] at the altar of Roddenberry". Overall, White has won five Emmy Awards, three American Comedy Awards (including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1990), and two Viewers for Quality Television Awards. Miles Ballard in the short-lived television series The Others and then as the eccentric alien Doctor Phlox in the fifth Star Trek series, Star Trek: Enterprise. The Golden Girls was immensely successful and ran from 1985 through 1992. He was cast in the role of Prof.

When NBC canceled Mama's Family in 1985, White would soon leave the show and score perhaps her most memorable role as the ditzy Rose Nylund on The Golden Girls, a show about the lives of four widowed or divorced senior citizens in Miami. In the early 1990s, Billingsley began to appear in minor roles on television and film, and starred in the independent film Breathing Hard (2000). From 1983 through 1986, she played Ellen Jackson on the moderate hit show Mama's Family along with future Golden Girls co-star Rue McClanahan. In Seattle, Billingsley helped found Book-It, a theatre company specializing in stage adaptations, and Freehold, an acting studio. In her later career, White played Sue Ann Nivens on The Mary Tyler Moore Show from 1973 to 1977. He studied theatre at Bennington College in Vermont before moving to Seattle, Washington. Both Password and Pyramid was created by White's friend, Bob Stewart. Billingsley was born in Media, Pennsylvania and raised in Connecticut.

White also made frequent game show appearances on What's My Line? (starting in 1955), To Tell the Truth (starting in 1961), Match Game (1973-1982) and Pyramid (starting in 1982). John Billingsley (born May 20, 1960) is an American actor, most famous in the role of Doctor Phlox on the television series Star Trek: Enterprise. In the 1970s and 80s, White appeared on the updated versions of Password on NBC -- Password Plus and Super Password.. White is perhaps better known for her appearances on the hit gameshow Password, in which she was a regular as a panelist from 1961 through 1975; it was through her early appearances on Password that she met the show's host, Allen Ludden, whom she married in 1963 and remained with until his death in 1981. She also had her own show briefly in 1954 with the original Betty White Show.

White's early television roles included her portrayal of Elizabeth on Life With Elizabeth in 1953 and as Vicki Angel on Date With the Angels in 1957 and 1958. Elizabeth Marion (Betty) White (born January 17, 1922) is a notable American television actress with a career spanning over 50 years.