Lynda Carter (born Lynda Jean Córdoba Carter in July 24, 1951, in Phoenix, Arizona) is an American actress. She is better known when a star of the Seventies fantasy adventure TV series Wonder Woman.

She was innate to Irish-American Colby Carter and Mexican-American Juana Cordoba. Carter grew higher an inspiring reader of the Wonder Woman comic books. She attend Arcadia High School within Phoenix, so to Arizona State University, but when existence voted the virtually all gifted student she dropped call at order to pursue a career around music. She toured as a singer by having many rock band prior to giving to Arizona within 1972.

She entered the local beauty contest, and achieved her 1st national fame by winning Miss World USA in 1972, representing Arizona. When ingesting acting classes at many New York acting schools, she began making guest appearances on TV shows like Starsky and Hutch, Cos, and Nakia. All the same, her acting career did non require off until 1975, when she landed her starring role in the Question Woman television series.

Her earnest performance when a half-clothed superhero endeared her to fans & critics, & a series lasted for tierce seasons. Thirty years when number one ingesting on a role, Carter continues to exist as closely identified by having Question Woman, & is and then identified sustaining the role that it proved hard for flick producers to locate a suitable candidate to play the character inside subsequent aborted productions (operate on the virtually all recent attempt was announced around 2005).

Carter's more credits include the name part inside a 1983 biopic of Rita Hayworth and a kind of television specials. She likewise starred around two or three of short-transient TV series. When you took the Seventies & Eighties she too recorded many albums & processed many guest appearances within kind television show in a musical capacity. She besides sang 2 of her songs in the Question Woman episode "Amazon Hot Wax."

Carter has been married twice. Her number one marriage was to her previous professional, Hollywood producer and manager Ron Samuels, on May 28, 1977. It were divorced around 1982. Carter's 2nd marriage was to attorney Robert Altman (does'nt to become confused by owning a film maker of the equivalent title) in January 29, 1984.

Inside 2001, Carter was cast in the low-budget comedy feature Super Troopers as Vermont Governor Jessman. A writer-stars of a film, the comedy troop Broken Lizard with member Jay Chandrasekhar directing, experienced specifically sought Carter for the role, by owning plans to approach more television actresses of the Seventies had Carter declined. Further recently, Carter has mass produced her total one appearance around the major feature within the number of years in the 2005 big-screen remake of The Dukes of Hazzard, also directed by Chandrasekhar. She likewise appears in the 2005 motion-picture show Sky High as Principal Powers, the head of the school for superheroes. A script allows Carter to guy at her best known character by getting her state: "How do you expect me to do something like that? I'm not Wonder Woman."