Dixie Virginia Carter (born May 25, 1939 in McLemoresville, Tennessee) is an American Emmy Award nominated actress.
Dixie Carter (born 1964 or 1965) is an American businesswoman, currently serving as president of the limited liability company TNA Entertainment. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, TNA Entertainment produces professional wrestling television programs, live events, pay-per-views and associated merchandise such as video games.
Dixie is the middle of three children. Her father owned several small retail stores. Early on, she dreamed of being an opera singer, but a botched tonsillectomy at age 7 spoiled any chances for that dream. Still, she sang regularly and studied classical music. She can play the piano, trumpet, and the harmonica. She graduated from Memphis State with an English degree. In 1960, she made her professinal debut in a local production of "Carousel". Three year's later, she moved to New York and landed a role in Joseph Papp's production of Shakespeare's "A Winter's Tale". When she married businessman, Arthur Carter, she left the stage for eight years to raise two daughters, Ginna Carter - now an actress and Mary Dixie Carter, a screenwriter. At age 35, she returned to acting, but found that no agent wanted to give her a chance. When offered a role in "On Our Own" in L.A., she immediately uprooted her family to move there. A second marriage to Broadway actor, George Hearn, quickly ended. She me!
A talented actress in both stage and screen and television and also a singer of opera and dancer, Dixie Carter is best known for her protrayal as the soft spoken soutern Julia Sugarbaker in "Designing Women" (1986). She's been known for performing in a number of Broadway plays and with her marriage to actor Hal Holbrook, nothing seems to slow Dixie down. Recently, she's been in the television series "Family Law" (1999) and, for two years in 1982 and 1983, before "Designing Women" (1986), she played Carlotta Beck in "Filthy Rich" (1982) up until it was cancelled.
