Dixie Carter
Dixie Virginia Carter (born May 25, 1939) is an American actress from McLemoresville, Tennessee.
She spent many of her early years in Memphis, Tennessee, and attended college at Southwestern at Memphis (now Rhodes College). She first became famous for her role as Brandy Henderson on the soap opera The Edge of Night. However, she is best known for appearing as outspoken Julia Sugarbaker in the 1980s television program Designing Women, set in Atlanta. From 1999 to 2002, she portrayed brash Southern attorney Randi King on the series Family Law.
Carter is generally known for portraying noticeably Southern women. She is known for her Southern pride, which is evident in her product endorsements, like her appearance in commercials for Southern Bell (later BellSouth).
She is currently married to actor Hal Holbrook, most noted for his appearances as Mark Twain.
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