Dixie Carter Biography

Fast Facts

• The Dixie Carter Performing Arts and Academic Enrichment Center in Huntingdon, Tenn․, is named in her honor
• Received the Distinguished Achievement Award in Creative and Performing Arts from the University of Memphis in 1993
• Graduated from Memphis State University with a degree in English
• Was her high school's valedictorian in 1957
• Her first major TV role was as an ADA on the daytime drama "The Edge of Night" from 1974 to 1976
• Placed first runner-up in the Miss Tennessee pageant, 1959
• Quote: "My experience in television is that it's miraculous to wind up in a success․ That it is to say, as success, I mean a show that gets bought to go on the air․ The odds are very great against that happening․"
• She can play the piano, trumpet and harmonica