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Lynda Carter (born Lynda Jean Córdoba Carter on
July 24|24 July, 1951 in Phoenix, Arizona) is an
United States|American actor|actress. She is best
known as the star of the 1970s fantasy adventure
TV series, Wonder Woman (television series)|Wonder

Woman.

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
U.S.A. in 1972, representing Arizona. After taking
acting classes at several New York acting schools,
she began making guest appearances on T.V. shows
such as Starsky and Hutch, Cos (TV series)|Cos,
and Nakia. However, her acting career did not take
off until 1975, when 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, and is
so identified with the role, that it proved
difficult for movie 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 1970s and
1980s she also recorded several albums and made
numerous guest appearances on variety television
programs in a musical capacity during this time.
She also sang two of her songs in the Wonder Woman
episode "Amazon Hot Wax."

Carter has been married twice. Her first was to
her former agent, Hollywood producer and manager
Ron Samuels on 28 May 1977. They were divorced in
1982. The second marriage was to lawyer Robert
Altman (not to be confused with the filmmaker of
the same name) on 29 January 1984.

In 2001, Carter was cast in the low-budget comedy
feature Super Troopers as Vermont Governor
Jessman.  The writers/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.  More recently, Carter has made 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 (2005 film)|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."

==External links==
*imdb name|id=0004812|name=Lynda Carter
*http://lymphocytes.741.com/ww.html  Commentary on
Lynda Carter's role as Wonder Woman
*http://www.cultsirens.com/carter/carter.htm Cult
Sirens: Lynda Carter