You have to take a huge loss financially to do a play. You have to put aside the commercials and the speeches and the other things that put money on the table, and really save up to do it. And that's what I've done here. But it's worth it to me to be in a really good play.

Personal life

In 1967 Carter married businessman Arthur Carter (no relation). Dixie Carter was interred in her hometown McLemoresville Tennessee. (She went along with the show when it switched from CBS to ABC.

Dixie Virginia Carter (May 25 1939 – April 10 2010) was an American film television and stage actress best known for her role as Julia Sugarbaker in the CBS sitcom Designing Women (1986–1993). She is also known for her roles as Randi King on the CBS legal drama Family Law (1999–2002) Assistant District Attorney Brandy Henderson on the CBS soap The Edge of Night (1974–1976) and as Gloria Hodge on the ABC series Desperate Housewives (2006–2007).