Most Recent Role: Gloria Hodge on Desperate Housewives
Gender: Female
Birthplace: McLemoresville, Tennessee
Birthday: 5-25-1939
Birth Name: Dixie Virginia Carter
Gender: Female
Birthplace: McLemoresville, Tennessee
Birthday: 5-25-1939
Birth Name: Dixie Virginia Carter
Dixie Carter, a television favorite who is best known for her role as Julia Sugarbaker on the long-running comedy hit, Designing Women, returned to CBS in 1999 as Randi King, the smart, sharp tongued lawyer with a southern rasp in Family Law.
In addition to her television credits, Ms. Carter also has an extensive theatre background and began her acting career at the Front Street Theatre...
Most Recent Appearance
The Little Things You Do Together (2)
Sunday 18 February 2007 on ABC
All of Wisteria Lane gathers at Pizzeria Scavo for the grand opening event, while one resident meets an untimely fate and another accepts a marriage proposal.
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After many years of feuding, Dixie and former co-star Delta Burke have recently become close friends again.
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Dixie won a World Theatre Award for her performance in The Bandit Queen.
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When she married businessman, Arthur Carter, Dixie chose to leave the stage for eight years to raise two daughters.
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In 1960, she made her professinal debut in a local production of the musical Carousel.
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Dixie's daughter, Ginna Carter, is also a screenwriter.
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Other Appearances
| Star | |
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Designing Women
Julia Sugarbaker |
Diff'rent Strokes
Margaret "Maggie" McKinney Drummond (1984-1985) |
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Family Law
Randi King |
Filthy Rich
Carlotta Beck |
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Ladies Man
Peaches (season 1) |
Out of the Blue (1979)
Aunt Marion |
| Recurring Role | |
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Desperate Housewives
Gloria Hodge |
The New Hollywood Squares
Herself |
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Best of the West
The Pretty Prisoner Mae Markham |
Bret Maverick
Hallie Hallie McCullough |
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Cassie & Co.
Golden Silence |
Christy
The Sweetest Gift (2) Julia Huddleston |
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Circus of the Stars
Special #16 Ringmaster |
Crazy Like A Fox
Fox on the Range Unknown |
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Designing WomenJulia Sugarbaker (Dixie Carter), Mary Jo Shively (Annie Potts), Charlene Frazier-Stillfield (Jean Smart) and Suzanne Sugarbaker (Delta Burke) are associates at their design firm, Sugarbaker and... more
Diff'rent StrokesDiff'rent Strokes took place in New York and centered around the happenings in the Drummond household. Philip Drummond was a widower and had a daughter, Kimberly. He was also quite wealthy... more Family Law
Family Law was a compelling drama which tackled complicated legal issues in the field of family law. The attorneys in this Southern California firm served their clients by handling divorce,... more Filthy Rich
"Now, Big Guy Beck left a whole lot of cash, but he said in his video will, his money-hungry family could never collect if they didn't love his illigitimate son, Wild Bill. He said they had to be... more Ladies Man
Welcome to the Ladies Man guide at TV.com. "As a husband/father/son/ex-husband/son-in-law, Jimmy Stiles enjoys few comforts of home — such as an empty bathroom — as he shares his life with a... more Out of the Blue (1979)
An inept angel named Random was sent to Chicago to help a harried aunt deal with her five nieces and nephews, after their parents were taken in a plane crash. To help with expenses, Aunt Marion... more
