DIXIE CARTER
Birthday: May 25
Birth Place: McLemoresville, Tennessee
Birth Name: Dixie Virginia Carter
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.
The Dixie Carter Performing Arts Center ("The Dixie") will open in
December 2005 in Huntingdon, Tennessee.
Carter and her husband reside in Los Angeles. Her daughters reside in
New York and Los Angeles.
Dixie Carter is a member of the President's Committee for Service and
Civic Participation.
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