Dixie Carter

Birth Name:

Dixie Virginia Carter

Birth Place:

McLemoresville, Tennessee, United States

Profession

Actress, Soundtrack

Received the Distinguished Achievement Award in Creative and Performing Arts from the University of Memphis in 1993
The Dixie Carter Performing Arts and Academic Enrichment Center in Huntingdon, Tenn․, is named in her honor
Graduated from Memphis State University with a degree in English
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
Was her high school's valedictorian in 1957
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

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