Dixie Virginia Carter (innate May 25, 1939) is an American actress noted for her portrayal of Southern women.

Carter was natural around diminutive McLemoresville, Tennessee and spent many of her early years within Memphis. She attended college at a University of Tennessee at Knoxville and Southwestern at Memphis (now Rhodes College). She occurs as graduate of Memphis State (currently University of Memphis) with the degree within English.

Around 1960, Carter made her agent stage debut within the Memphis production of Carousel (musical). She moved to Future York inside 1963 and got the the portion around a production of Shakespeare's ''A Winter's Tale. Within 1967 she married businessman Arthur Carter, by using whom she got 2 girl, Mary Dixie & Ginna, world health organization appeared within an episode of Designing Women'' back in the 1990s. As punishment a birth of her girl, she left acting for eight years to focus in raising her kids. She returned to acting at age 35. Inside 1974, she filled in for actress Nancy Pinkerton when 'Dorian Cramer Lord' in One Life to Live, while Pinkerton get on maternity leave. She divorced Arthur Carter in 1977, and married Broadway and TV actor George Hearn the same season. 2 years late, within 1979, she divorced Hearn and married once again Pentad years late, in Could 27, 1984, to the somewhat older actor Hal Holbrook, who is virtually all noted for his appearances when Mark Twain. Carter & Holbrook sleep in liberal-minded Beverly Hills with Carter's elderly father, however it oft pay visits to Tennessee. Carter foremost became celebrated for her role when 'Adjunct D.The. Brandy Henderson' on the soap opera The Edge of Night. She likewise appeared nonparallel like Out of the Blue, On Our Own, Different Strokes, and Filthy Rich (1982). But, she is better known for appearing when outspoken liberal militant Julia Sugarbaker in the 1980s/1990s television program Designing Women, set within Atlanta, Georgia, which was a large stretch ideologically for Carter (watch in the image below). From either 1999 to 2002, she portrayed brash Southern lawyer Randi King on the legal drama series Family Law. She as well starred inside many Broadway musicals & plays, including portraying the late opera singer and prima donna Maria Callas in Callas, for which she very profits misused her regional accent. This was a play that fellow Southerner Faye Dunaway mortgaged her home to acquire a rights to produce a film version where she planned to play Callas herself, however it never come to pass.

She is known for her Southern pride, which is evident around her product endorsements, rather her appearances around commercial message for Southern Bell (afterwards BellSouth).

Carter is too the registered Republican, who was interviewed by Bill O'Reilly along with Pat Boone at the 2000 Republican National Convention. She another time jokingly described herself when "the only Republican in show business." [http://www.dixiecarter.com/Trans/TR011.html]

Around 1996, Carter published her memoirs, entitled Trying to Get to Heaven.