Actress Dixie Carter (May 25, 1939 - April 10, 2010) was born in McLemoresville, Tennessee and grew up primarily in Memphis. She went to college in Knoxville and in Memphis. She played Julia Sugarbaker in “Designing Women,” also appeared regularly on “Family Law,” “Desperate Housewives,” and the soap opera “The Edge of Night.” She is on record as having been a libertarian-leaning Republican. She was married three times, the final time in 1984 to Hal Holbrook to whom she remained married until her death, and had two children. She died in Houston, Texas from complications from endometrial cancer.
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Movie and television credits, a biography news articles and numerous video clips and photographs are available on this website.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0141581/
The official website of the late Dixie Carter contains her credits as an actress, a singer, and a writer as well as her biography and a notice about her death.
http://www.dixiecarter.com/
This is a repository of articles, interviews, and photographs of Dixie Carter, as well as her upcoming television listings.
http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/dixie-carter/147492
