15 Facts About Rose Nylund

Rose Nylund is a fictional character from the sitcom television series The Golden Girls and its spin-off, The Golden Palace.

Rose Nylund was portrayed by Betty White for 8 years, totaling 204 episodes.

Rose Nylund felt that White would be a better fit for Rose because she had played Sue Ann Nivens in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, who is similar to the character of Blanche Devereaux.

The character of Rose Nylund Lindstrom is a Norwegian American born in St Olaf, Minnesota, to a monk named Brother Martin and a 19-year-old girl named Ingrid Kerklavoner, who died giving birth.

Rose Nylund is described as having daydreamed that her birth father was Bob Hope and that she wrote the comedian many letters whenever she fell on tough times.

Rose Nylund attended St Paul Business School, Rockport Community College, and St Gustaf University but never graduated from high school due to a case of mono.

Rose Nylund was voted "most likely to get stuck in a tuba" by one of her graduating classes.

Rose Nylund met Charlie when she was seven and he was eight, and he sold her an insurance policy for her red wagon.

Rose Nylund has two granddaughters by Kirsten - Charley and another unnamed, mentioned in the episode where Rose Nylund had her heart attack.

Rose Nylund is laid off from her job at the grief counseling center in season 1, and briefly works as a waitress at the Fountain Roc Coffee Shop before being rehired at the counseling center shortly after.

Later in the series, Rose Nylund suffers financial difficulties when her late husband's employer files for bankruptcy and her pension is cut off.

Rose Nylund suffers from age discrimination in her attempts to get a new job, but her luck changes when she gets a position as assistant to TV consumer reporter Enrique Mas.

Rose Nylund finds a significant romance with college professor Miles Webber, though their relationship is put through a serious strain when it is revealed that Miles is actually a former mobster accountant named Nicholas Carbone, and a participant in the witness protection program.

Rose Nylund has the ability, which she calls "The Gift", to speak with animals and hear their conversations.

Rose Nylund appears on the Nurses episode "Begone with the Wind".