Beloved actress, comic and American icon Betty White has died, simply weeks earlier than a milestone birthday … TMZ has realized.

Legislation enforcement sources inform TMZ … Betty handed away at her residence simply earlier than 9:30 AM Friday.

A trailblazer and pioneer in media, Betty had the longest working profession for any lady in TV previous to her loss of life — starring in a number of reveals over the previous 8 a long time, beginning means again in 1939.

Betty is probably most well-known for her lead position as Rose Nylund in “The Golden Ladies,” which ran from 1985 to 1992. She’d been in TONS of different massive hits all through her life although.

Betty obtained her begin in radio within the ’40s, making appearances on “Blondie,” “The Nice Gildersleeve,” and “That is Your FBI.” She finally obtained her personal radio program. In 1949, she started engaged on a TV selection present with Al Jarvis known as “Hollywood on Tv” — which she later co-hosted — earlier than breaking out into extra TV roles.

Her breakout comedic position got here in 1973 when she performed Sue Ann Nivens on “The Mary Tyler Moore Present” … which ran till 1977, after which she obtained her starring position in “The Betty White Present.”

With 115 appearing credit to her title, Betty had roles in productions like “Life with Elizabeth,” “Date with the Angels,” “The Love Boat,” “Mama’s Household,” “The Golden Palace,” “Girls Man,” “That ’70s Present,” “Higglytown Heroes,” “Boston Authorized,” “The Daring and the Stunning,” “Pound Puppies,” “Sizzling in Cleveland,” and plenty of, many, many different reveals and movies.

Betty gained 5 Primetime Emmy Awards — together with 2 for ‘Mary Tyler Moore,’ 1 for “Golden Ladies” and 1 for her 1975 ‘SNL’ look — together with Display Actors Guild Awards, American Comedy Awards and even a 2012 Grammy.

She’s been nominated for a number of Golden Globes and has additionally been honored with a lot of Lifetime Achievement Awards and celebrations by means of a number of organizations.

Betty had simply made headlines this week when she instructed Individuals, “I’ve heard Ryan [Reynolds] cannot recover from his factor for me” — they co-starred within the 2009 film, “The Proposal.”

Ryan jokingly responded on Twitter … “I am completely sick of the media exploiting previous relationships simply to drive clicks.”

The final time we obtained Betty on digital camera, she was teasing the launch of her Fb web page again in 2012.

As we have reported … Betty had been further cautious throughout the pandemic, largely chilling at residence and passing the time by studying, watching TV and doing crossword puzzles.

Betty was 99 and she or he would have celebrated her a hundredth birthday on January 17.

RIP