Carter died in Houston, at the age of 70, from complications of endometrial cancer
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Dixie Carter
Dixie Virginia Carter was an American actress. She starred as Julia Sugarbaker on the sitcom Designing Women (1986–1993) and as Randi King on the drama series Family Law (1999–2002). She was nominated for the 2007 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Gloria Hodge on Desperate Housewives (2006–2007).
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Born 25 May 1939 · Died 10 April 2010 · Q240360
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2010· 2 entries
Died 2010-04-10.
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2006· 1 entry
For 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-Barne
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2004· 1 entry
Made a guest appearance on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, playing a defense attorney named Denise Brockmorton in the episode called "Home", in which she defended the paranoid mother of two children (Diane Venora)
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2003· 1 entry
Describing and offering outreach to people with spasmodic torticollis/cervical dystonia began appearing in New York and New Jersey and then across the United States in 2010
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1997· 1 entry
Carter starred as Maria Callas in Terrence McNally's play Master Class
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1996· 1 entry
Carter published a memoir titled Trying to Get to Heaven, in which she talked frankly about her life with Holbrook, Designing Women and her plastic surgery during the show's run
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1981· 1 entry
Carter starred in the title role of Mame at the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera in a production staged by Susan H
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1977· 3 entries
And married theater and TV actor George Hearn the same year
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Appeared in several episodes of another soap opera, The Doctors as socialite Linda Elliott
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She divorced Arthur Carter in 1977 and married theater and TV actor George Hearn the same year.
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1976· 2 entries
Awarded Theatre World Award (1976).
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Won the Theater World Award for Jesse and the Bandit Queen
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1967· 2 entries
Began an eight-year hiatus from acting, to focus on raising her two daughters; she returned to acting in 1974, when she filled in for actress Nancy Pinkerton as Dorian Cramer on One Life to Live while Pinkerton was o
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Carter married Arthur Carter (no relation), businessman and publisher of the New York Observer
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1963· 1 entry
And got a part in a production of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale
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1960· 2 entries
Carter made her professional stage debut in a Memphis production of Carousel, co-starring George Hearn, whom she would go on to marry 17 years later
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And made her Broadway debut in the 1974 musical Sextet
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1959· 1 entry
Carter competed in the Miss Tennessee pageant, where she placed first runner-up to Mickie Weyland
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1939· 1 entry
Born 1939-05-25.
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