Lynda Carter (born Linda Jean Córdoba
Carter on July 24, 1951, in Phoenix, Arizona) is an
American actress. She is best known as the star of
the fantasy-adventure TV series Wonder Woman which
ran from 1975 to 1979.
She was born to Irish-American Colby
Carter and Mexican-American Juana Cordoba. Carter
grew up an avid reader of the Wonder Woman comic books.
She went to Arcadia High School in Phoenix, then to
Arizona State University but after being voted the
most talented student she dropped out in order to
pursue a career in music. She toured as a singer with
several rock groups before returning to Arizona in
1972.
She entered a local beauty contest
and achieved her first national fame by winning Miss
World USA in 1972 representing Arizona. After taking
acting classes at several New York acting schools,
she began making appearing on TV shows such as Starsky
and Hutch, Cos and Nakia and B-movies including Bobbie
Jo and the Outlaw (1976), which featured nude scenes
of her skinny dipping. However, her acting career
did not take off until she landed her starring role
in the Wonder Woman television series.
Her earnest performance as the scantily
clad superhero endeared her to fans and critics and
the series lasted for three seasons. Thirty years
after first taking on the role, Carter continues to
be closely identified with Wonder Woman, so much so
that it has proved difficult for producers to find
a suitable candidate to play the character in subsequent
aborted productions (work on the most recent attempt
was announced in 2005).
Carter's other credits include the
title role in a 1983 biopic of Rita Hayworth and a
variety of television specials. She also starred in
a couple of short-lived TV series. During the late
1970s, she recorded an album, Portraits and made numerous
guest appearances on variety television programs in
a musical capacity. She also sang two of her songs
in the Wonder Woman episode "Amazon Hot Wax."
Carter has been married twice. Her
first marriage was to her former agent Ron Samuels
on May 28, 1977. They were divorced in 1982. Carter's
married lawyer Robert Altman (not to be confused with
the filmmaker of the same name) on January 29, 1984.
Robert and Lynda have two children, James and Jessica
Altman.
In 2001, Carter was cast in the low-budget
comedy feature Super Troopers as Vermont Governor
Jessman. The writer-stars of the film, the comedy
troop Broken Lizard with member Jay Chandrasekhar
directing, had specifically sought Carter for the
role, with plans to approach other television actresses
of the 1970s had Carter declined. Carter had her first
appearance in a major feature film in a number of
years in the 2005 big-screen remake of The Dukes of
Hazzard, also directed by Chandrasekhar. She also
appears in the 2005 movie Sky High as Principal Powers,
the head of a school for superheroes. The script allows
Carter to poke fun at her most famous character by
having her state: "How do you expect me to do
something like that? I'm not Wonder Woman."
Since September 26, 2005, Carter has
taken on the role of Mama Morton in the West End London
production of Chicago.
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