Desperate Housewives Actress Dixie Carter has died at the age of 70.
Carter’s untimely passing was the result of endometrial cancer.
The Tennessee native first made her acting debut on Broadway and is best known for her role as Julia Sugarbaker in the television sitcom ‘Designing Women’.
Dixie Carter also had roles in ‘Diff’rent Strokes’ and ‘Family Law’. Her most recent role was a guest slot in the hit series ‘Desperate Housewives’ as the mother in law of character Bree Hodge.
Dixie Carter made her final film appearance in the flick ‘The Evening Sun’.
In 1984 Carter married Holbrook, whom she had met doing a 1980 television film, The Killing of Randy Webster.
Holbrook was nominated for best supporting actor in 2008 for his role in Sean Penn’s film Into the Wild.
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