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On July 31, 2005, Dixie Carter ended a triumphant two-month engagement
at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington D.C. as Mrs. Erlynne in Oscar
Widle's play, Lady Windermere's Fan. She had starred previously there
in another Oscar Wilde play, A Woman of No Importance. On October 5,
2005, Ms. Carter and her husband, Hal Holbrook, open at Houston's Alley
Theatre in the world premiere of a new play by Ken Ludwig entitled Be
My Baby.
In January 2006, she and Mr. Holbrook will debut another new play; this
one by Kate Clark, called Southern Comforts, written for two characters
only.
Dixie Carter was seen last year on television in the situation comedy
Hope and Faith and on the drama Law and Order: Special Victims Unit. In addition to
her most well known television role, that of Julia Sugarbaker on
Designing Women, she has starred in seven other television series:
Family Law, Ladies Man, Fired Up, Filthy Rich, On Our Own, Out of the
Blue, and Diff'rent Strokes. She and Mr. Holbrook met while filming
the CBS-TV movie, The Killing of Randy Webster.
New York Credits:
Eleven seasons at The Café Carlyle.
Broadway-- Marquis Theatre: Thoroughly Modern Millie; John Golden
Theatre: Master Class (Maria Callas); Circle in the Square: Pal Joey
(Melba); Bijou Theatre: Sextet.
Off-Broadway-- New York Shakespeare
Festival: The Winter's Tale (Perdita); Public Theatre: Taken in
Marriage (Dixie Avalon), Fathers and Sons (Calamity Jane), Buried
Inside Extra (Liz Conlon), Gogol (Chained Woman), Jesse and the Bandit
Queen (Belle Starr); Music Theatre of Lincoln Center: Carousal, The
King and I, The Merry Widow; Astor Place Theatre: A Coupla' White
Chicks Sittin' Around Talkin'; Upstairs at the Downstairs (2 seasons).
Regional Credits:
Long Wharf Theatre: Paper Doll (Jacqueline Susanne);
Matrix Theatre, LA: Names (Stella Adler); A Streetcar Named Desire
(Blanche DuBois), The Apple Cart, Kiss Me Kate, A Little Night Music,
Mame, Babes in Arms, Oklahoma, Brigadoon, The King and I, The New Moon,
The Student Prince, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth
Night.
Dixie Carter's credits span various media in addition to her acting
credits. Her CD, Dixie Carter Sings John Wallowitch at The Carlyle,
was released in 1991; she is the producer of two fitness videos, Dixie
Carter's Unworkout (platinum release) and Yoga for You; and she is also
the author of Trying to Get to Heaven, which was published by Simon and
Schuster in 1996.
Ms. Carter travels extensively as a public speaker and appears in
concert across the country.
Born in McLemoresville, Tennessee, and valedictorian of her high school
class, Ms. Carter attended the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and
Rhodes College in Memphis (Honorary Doctorate).
Awards:
Southeastern Theatre Conference; National
Corporate Theatre Fund; The Shakespeare Theatre Millennium Recognition
Award; Theatre World Award: Jesse and the Bandit Queen; Drama Desk
Nomination: Fathers and Sons; Dramalogue: Names.
Dixie Carter passed away on April 10, 2010, in Houston, Texas from complications from endometrial cancer which was diagnosed earlier in 2010. In addition to her husband Hal Holbrook, she is survived by her daughters from her first marriage: Ginna Carter and Mary Dixie Carter as well as a sister, Melba Helen Heath and several nephews and nieces. Dixie Carter was interred in her hometown, McLemoresville, Tennessee.
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