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Delta Ramona Leah Burke (born July 30 1956 in
Orlando, Florida) is an United States|American
television and film actor|actress. She is probably
best known for her role as Suzanne Sugarbaker in
the sitcom Designing Women.  

She represented Florida and was paired with
Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia, Gail Nelson, in the
Miss America Pageant in 1974, and won a talent
scholarship allowing her to attend a two-year
study program at the London Academy of Music and
Dramatic Art.  She is a designer and manager of
the clothing company Delta Burke Design in New
York City. Delta is married to actor Gerald
McRaney.

Ever since the early 1990s, Delta's weight has
been a subject of discussion in the tabloid press.
In reality, her struggles with weight and eating
disorders stretch back to her pageant days in the
early 1970s. She was fired from Designing Women
when relations between Burke and her co-stars,
especially Dixie Carter, deteriorated. Speculation
in the press immediately labeled the reason for
her firing to be massive weight gain, which was
only one of the reasons.

Delta went on to star in her own television show,
Delta (TV series)|Delta, and Women of the House
(reprising her Suzanne Sugarbaker role, sans other
Designing Women stars), which were both flops. She
became a much-parodied figure in the press due to
her seesawing weight (including a skit on MADtv,
in which Delta Burke eats anything and everything
in sight, even people. On Saturday Night Live,
Leon Phelps from The Ladies Man has a sexual
fixation on Burke, for reasons which were not
explained). In the early 2000s, she co-starred
with David Alan Grier on the sitcom DAG; she lost
much of her excess weight for the role.

== Selected Filmography ==
*Good Boy! (2003)
*Going for Broke (2003)
*What Women Want (2000)
*Melanie Darrow (1997) 
*Women of the House (1995)
*Delta (1992)
*Designing Women (1986)
*Filthy Rich (1982) (1982)

== Nonfiction ==
*Delta Style: Eve Wasn't a Size 6 and Neither Am I
(1998, St. Martin's Press ;ISBN 0312154542 )