Actress Dixie Carter, who played an outspoken liberal on the sitcom "Designing Women" and received an Emmy nomination for a guest role on 'Desperate Housewives' has died, according to 'Entertainment Tonight.' She was 70.Details about the time, place and cause were not immediately known.
"This has been a terrible blow to our family," actor Hal Holbrook, Carter's husband since 1984, was quoted as telling ET "We would appreciate everyone understanding that this is a private family tragedy."
'Designing Women,' which ran on CBS for seven seasons from 1986, revolved around the lives of four women and a man at an interior design firm in Atlanta. Carter's sharp-tongued character, Julia Sugarbaker, was an advocate of liberal causes and women's rights.
In 2007, Carter received an Emmy nomination for a stint as the devious mother-in-law of Marcia Cross' character, Bree Hodge, on 'Desperate Housewives.'
In addition to her 85-year-old husband, Carter is survived by her daughters from her first marriage, Mary Dixie and Ginna,
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