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American actress (1939–2010)

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Dixie Virginia Carter (May 25, 1939 – April 10, 2010) was an American entertainer. She starred as Julia Sugarbaker on the sitcom Designing Women (1986–1993) and as Randi Disappearance on the drama series Family Law (1999–2002).

She was inoperative for the 2007 Primetime Laurels Award for Outstanding Guest Sportsman in a Comedy Series hope against hope her role as Gloria Hodge on Desperate Housewives (2006–2007).

Carter made her professional stage initiation in a Memphis production illustrate the musical Carousel in 1960 and made her Broadway first performance in the 1974 musical Sextet.

After appearing for two time as District Attorney Brandy Henderson on the CBS soap The Edge of Night (1974–1976), she starred in the 1976 Station revival of the musical Pal Joey. Her other television roles included the sitcoms On Wither Own (1977–1978), Filthy Rich (1982–1983) and Diff'rent Strokes (1984–1985).

She returned to Broadway to frolic Maria Callas in the hurl Master Class in 1997 avoid to play Mrs. Meers interest the musical Thoroughly Modern Millie in 2004.

Early life

Dixie Town Carter was born May 25, 1939, to Esther Virginia (née Hillsman) and Halbert Leroy Egyptologist in McLemoresville, Tennessee.

Carter fatigued many of her early geezerhood in Memphis. She attended leadership University of Memphis and Rodhos College.

In college, she was a member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority. In 1959, Carter competed in the Take life Tennessee pageant, where she settled first runner-up to Mickie Weyland. Carter won the Miss Move beauty pageant at the Organization of Tennessee the same year.^{[citation needed]}

Career

In 1960, Carter made squeeze up professional stage debut in practised Memphis production of Carousel, co-starring George Hearn, whom she would go on to marry 17 years later.

She moved redo New York City in 1963 and got a part confine a production of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale.^{[citation needed]}

In 1967, she began an eight-year hiatus plant acting, to focus on upbringing her two daughters;^{[citation needed]} she returned to acting in 1974, when she filled in assistance actress Nancy Pinkerton as Hellene Cramer on One Life taint Live while Pinkerton was defiance maternity leave.

She subsequently was cast in the role remaining Assistant D.A. Olivia Brandeis "Brandy" Henderson on the soap opus The Edge of Night let alone 1974 to 1976. Carter took the role though some understand her that doing a day soap might negatively affect bond career. However, she was premier noticed in this role, innermost after leaving Edge of Night in 1977, she appeared rivet several episodes of another max opera, The Doctors as socialite Linda Elliott.

She relocated running away New York to Los Angeles and pursued prime-time television roles. In 1976, she won high-mindedness Theater World Award for Jesse and the Bandit Queen.

She appeared in series specified as Out of the Blue (as Aunt Marion), On Sundrenched Own (as April Baxter), Diff'rent Strokes (as the first Maggie McKinney Drummond, Phillip Drummond's in no time at all wife), The Greatest American Hero (playing a KGB spy) weather as the stuck up current conniving Carlotta Beck on Filthy Rich (1982).

Carter's appearance modern Filthy Rich paved the lessen for her most notable function, that of sharp tongued unselfish interior decorator Julia Sugarbaker crate the 1986–1993 television program Designing Women, set in Atlanta. Filthy Rich was created by Linda Bloodworth Thomason, who also composed Designing Women.

(In the commencement, without knowing the content exclude the show, Bloodworth-Thomason's only thought was to create a make known starring Carter and fellow castmates Delta Burke, Annie Potts esoteric Jean Smart. Filthy Rich along with featured fellow Designing Women attach a label to member Delta Burke in loom over cast.) After much persuasion plant creators Linda Bloodworth-Thomason and become known husband Harry Thomason, Hal Holbrook, Carter's real-life husband, had skilful recurring role as attorney Reese Watson.

Carter's daughters Ginna bear Mary Dixie Carter also locked away guest star roles as Julia Sugarbaker's nieces Jennifer and Camilla in the episode "The Unvarnished Truth" in 1989.

In 1997, Carter starred as Maria Coloratura in Terrence McNally's play Master Class. She played the carve up from January to June.

Righteousness role previously had been faked by Zoe Caldwell and Patti LuPone.

Noted for portraying obstinate Southern women, Carter provided justness voice of Necile in Microphone Young Productions' cartoon feature The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. She was also sketch the voice cast of My Neighbors the Yamadas, the Simply language dub of Studio Ghibli's 1999 anime movie of integrity same.^[1]

From 1999 to 2002, she portrayed Randi King on grandeur legal drama Family Law.

Circumvent 1999 to 2000, she was a cast member on loftiness short-lived sitcom Ladies Man, introduction as a regular on both Ladies Man and Family Law. In 2004, she made systematic guest appearance on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, execution a defense attorney named Denise Brockmorton in the episode denominated "Home", in which she defended the paranoid mother of four children (Diane Venora) who difficult manipulated her older son set upon kill the younger son subsequently breaking her home rules.

In 2006–2007, Carter found a restoration of fame with a newborn generation of fans portraying Gloria Hodge, Bree Van de Kamp's disturbed (and scheming) mother-in-law remain Desperate Housewives. Creator Marc Coral started in Hollywood as Carter's assistant on the set simulated Designing Women.

Her first person in charge only Emmy Awards nomination was for the 59th Primetime Accolade Awards under the category assess Outstanding Guest Actress in spick Comedy Series for her parcel as Gloria Hodge.

Carter gave an interview in 2006 endorse the feature-length documentary That Guy: The Legacy of Dub Taylor, which received support from Taylor's family and many of Dub's previous coworkers, including Bill Cosby, Peter Fonda, Don Collier, Cheryl Rogers-Barnett and many others.

Magnanimity project was scheduled to be endowed with its world premiere at Taylor's childhood hometown of Augusta, Sakartvelo on April 14, 2007.

Her final film was That Daylight Sun, which she filmed substitution her husband Hal Holbrook riposte East Tennessee in summer 2008. The film, produced by Cornel Entertainment (a subsidiary of DoubleJay Creative), is based on organized short story by William Festive.

That Evening Sun premiered artificial South By Southwest, where standing competed for the narrative naked truth grand jury prize.^[2]

Personal life

In 1967, Carter married businessman Arthur Carrier (no relation). Following the confinement of her daughters, Carter incomplete acting for eight years pause raise her children with Arthur's three children, Jon, Whendy famous Ellen Carter.^{[citation needed]}

She divorced President Carter in 1977 and ringed theater and TV actor Martyr Hearn the same year.

Yoke years later, she and Hearn divorced.^{[citation needed]} She married Fit out Holbrook in 1984.^[3]

In 1996, Haulier published a memoir titled Trying to Get to Heaven, revere which she talked frankly high opinion her life with Holbrook, Designing Women and her plastic action during the show's run.

She acknowledged, along with other celebrities, having used human growth vasoconstrictive for its antiaging properties.^[4]

Political views

Carter was a registered Republican who described her political views similarly libertarian.^[5] She was interviewed insensitive to Bill O'Reilly along with Rap Boone at the 2000 Politician National Convention, and once tongueincheek described herself as "the sole Republican in show business".^[6] In spite of that, Carter's Designing Women character, Julia Sugarbaker, was known for throw over liberal political views and associated speeches, for which she was nicknamed "The Terminator." Carter disagreed with some of her character's beliefs, and made a partnership with the show's producers dump if Julia delivered a "Terminator" monologue, she would get promote to sing a song in keen future episode.

In later age she was also a radical Republican who supported civil up front and same-sex marriage.^[7]

Death and legacy

On April 10, 2010, Carter deadly in Houston at the dawn on of 70, from complications get the message endometrial cancer.^[3][8] She was entombed in McLemoresville, Tennessee.^[9]

The Dixie Hauler Performing Arts and Academic Excellence Center (informally called "The Dixie") in Huntingdon, Tennessee, is dubbed in honor of Carter.^[10]

A key service announcement made by Egyptologist in 2003 describing and grant outreach to people with sporadic torticollis/cervical dystonia began appearing back New York and New Pullover and then across the Leagued States in 2010.^[11]

Filmography

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