Actress, Comedian, Animal Advocate · Capricorn · born January 17, 1922 in Oak Park, Illinois, USA

Betty White had the longest television career of any performer, spanning eight decades from 1939. She was among the first women to produce a sitcom, and spent seventy years funding and campaigning for animal welfare, which she consistently described as her real work.

Their Capricorn side

Capricorn stamina: eight decades on television, still working at ninety-nine.

Notable works

• The Golden Girls
• The Mary Tyler Moore Show
• Life with Elizabeth
• Hot in Cleveland

Achievements

• Guinness record for the longest television career by an entertainer
• Five Primetime Emmy Awards
• Among the first women to produce a sitcom
• Seventy years of animal welfare advocacy

In their words

• “I am a teenager trapped in an old body.”
• “It is your outlook on life that counts.”

Birth chart facts

• Sun sign: Capricorn
• Moon sign: Virgo
• Chinese zodiac: Metal Rooster
• Life path number: 5 — The Free Spirit
• Born on a Tuesday

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