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Dixie Carter was an acclaimed American actress who starred in popular TV shows like Designing Women, Family Law, and Desperate Housewives. She had a diverse career, with roles in Broadway musicals, soap operas, and sitcoms, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for her work.
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About the Dixie Carter
Dixie Virginia Carterwas an American actress. She starred as Julia Sugarbaker on the sitcom Designing Womenand as Randi King on the drama series Family Lawand Diff’rent Strokes (1984-1985). She returned to Broadway to play Maria Callas in the play Master Class in 1997 and to play Mrs. Meers in the musical Thoroughly Modern Millie in 2004.
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Dixie Carter was born on May 25, 1939.
Dixie Carter is best known for her role as Julia Sugarbaker on the sitcom Designing Women, which she starred in from 1986 to 1993.
In addition to Designing Women, Dixie Carter also starred in the drama series Family Law from 1999 to 2002, and had a recurring role on Desperate Housewives in 2006-2007.
Dixie Carter had a background in theater, making her professional stage debut in a Memphis production of Carousel in 1960 and making her Broadway debut in the 1974 musical Sextet.
Dixie Carter had roles in several other TV shows throughout her career, including The Edge of Night, On Our Own, Filthy Rich, and Diff’rent Strokes.
Dixie Carter passed away on April 10, 2010 at the age of 70.
Dixie Carter was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in 2007 for her guest role as Gloria Hodge on Desperate Housewives.
8 Quotes by Dixie Carter
- 1.
Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.
Dixie CarterAmerican actress (1939-2010)
- 2.
We don’t have the family organization the way we used to. My father lives with us because we have the room. The greatest of all opportunities for our children is a complete family unit.
Dixie CarterAmerican actress (1939-2010)
- 3.
Eventually I lost the idea that I could have a career. I thought I was too old.
Dixie CarterAmerican actress (1939-2010)
- 4.
The show was written just for us. We all thought we were the prettiest and the funniest.
Dixie CarterAmerican actress (1939-2010)
- 5.
It takes a mighty good man to be better than no man at all.
Dixie CarterAmerican actress (1939-2010)
- 6.
You have to take a huge loss financially to do a play. You have to put aside the commercials and the speeches and the other things that put money on the table, and really save up to do it. And that’s what I’ve done here. But it’s worth it to me to be in a really good play.
Dixie CarterAmerican actress (1939-2010)
- 7.
Certainly if we hope do enhance and extend whatever natural assets we were given, we must expect to make an effort, if not actually great labor.
Dixie CarterAmerican actress (1939-2010)
- 8.
I have never met a happy atheist. I believe in separation of church and state, but I think we have gone so far over in the other direction of separating church and state.
Dixie CarterAmerican actress (1939-2010)