Lynda Carter
Lynda Jean Carter , actually Linda Jean Cordova Carter , (born July 24, 1951 in Phoenix , Arizona ) is an American actress , singer and former beauty queen . She has been known to a wide audience as Wonder Woman from the television series of the same name since the 1970s .
Life
Carter was born in 1951 to Irish-Mexican immigrants in Phoenix, Arizona, as Linda Jean Cordova Carter , where she grew up. At the age of five, she appeared on Lew King's talent show; her real career in show business only began as a teenager. After working for various school bands, she joined The Relatives at the age of 17 , a band that later played for three months in the Sahara Lounge in Las Vegas , Nevada - although Carter was still a minor and was therefore only allowed to enter the lounge via the hotel kitchen.
She attended Arizona State University and subsequently intensified her music career. With her band The Garfin Gathering with Lynda Carter , she performed with modest success in San Francisco before returning to Arizona in 1972. There she decided to take part in a beauty pageant. She was eventually named Miss Phoenix . More contest races followed and she won the titles Miss Arizona and Miss USA . She ultimately represented the United States in 1972 at Miss World , where she was placed in the top 15.
She took acting lessons and appeared in a number of television productions such as Starsky & Hutch , Cos and Nakia, the Indian Sheriff, and some B-movies such as Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw . Her most successful role, the revealing superhero Wonder Woman , she got in 1975, when she prevailed against 2000 colleagues. Wonder Woman aired in November 1975 and was extremely successful.
Carter then tried her hand at singing: in 1978 her first LP Portrait was released .
In the 1980s she had other TV appearances, such as in the biopic Rita Hayworth : The Love Goddess .
From 2009 she also appeared again increasingly as a singer and released two albums: At Last (2009) and Crazy Little Things (2011). Red Rock N 'Blues followed in 2018 .
Carter also appears as the singer "Magnolia" in the computer game Fallout 4 , in which she performs some songs and speaks the English dubbing .
On April 3, 2018, she was honored with the 2,632nd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame .
Filmography
- 1974: Nakia, the Indian sheriff (Nakia) (TV series, episode role)
- 1975: Matt Helm (TV series, episode role)
- 1976: They called him El Lute (Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw)
- 1976: A Matter of Wife ... and Death (TV movie)
- 1976: Starsky & Hutch (Starsky and Hutch) (TV series, episode role)
- 1975–1979: Wonder Woman (TV series)
- 1980: The Last Song (TV movie)
- 1981: Human Trafficking (Born to Be Sold) (TV movie)
- 1982: Hotline - The Voice of Death (Hotline) (TV movie)
- 1983: Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess (TV movie)
- 1984: Partners in Crime (TV series)
- 1987: The Senator's Past (Stillwatch) (TV movie)
- 1989: Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All (TV movie)
- 1991: Danielle Steels Fathers (Daddy) (TV movie)
- 1991: I Was a Playmate (Posing: Inspired by Three Real Stories) (Movie made for TV)
- 1993: Your Conscience (Lightning in a Bottle) (TV movie)
- 1994: Leatherstocking (Hawkeye) (TV series)
- 1996: Death Diet - The Price of Beauty (When Friendship Kills) (TV movie)
- 1996: pregnant! It happened under anesthesia (She Woke Up Pregnant) (TV movie)
- 1997: A Prayer in the Dark (TV movie)
- 1998 Someone to Love Me (TV movie)
- 1999: Family Blessings (TV movie)
- 2001: Super Troopers - The Super Cops (Super Troopers)
- 2003: Terror Peak (TV movie)
- 2003: Hope and Faith ( Hope & Faith , TV series, episode role)
- 2005: Wonder Woman: The Ultimate Feminist Icon
- 2005: Sky High - This high school is taking off! (Sky High)
- 2005: A Duke Seldom Comes Alone (The Dukes of Hazzard)
- 2005: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV series, episode role)
- 2005: Law & Order (TV series, episode role)
- 2006: The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer Park
- 2006: Slayer - The Vampire Killer (Slayer) (TV movie)
- 2006: Tempbot
- 2007: Smallville (TV series, episode role)
- 2007: Tattered Angel
- 2013: Two and a Half Men (TV series, episode 11x06)
- 2016: Supergirl (TV series, episodes 2x03, 2x17, 2x21)
Discography
- 1978: portrait
- 2009: At Last
- 2011: Crazy Little Things
- 2018: Red Rock N 'Blues
Web links
- Official website (English)
- Lynda Carter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Lynda Carter | Hollywood Walk of Fame. Retrieved July 3, 2018 (American English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carter, Lynda |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Carter, Lynda Jean; Cordova Carter, Linda Jean (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American actress and singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Phoenix , Arizona, United States |