Matthew MacFadyen

In 2003 he began a relationship with his Spooks co-star Keeley Hawes, and they are expecting their first child later in 2004. In 1996, Carter published her memoirs, entitled Trying to Get to Heaven. He is currently filming a starring role as Mr Darcy in a new film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, due for release in 2005. They live in Beverly Hills, California. MacFadyen has also appeared in several films, most notably Enigma (2001), in which he was oddly cast as a battle-scarred submarine commander. Two years later, she divorced Hearn and married again to actor Hal Holbrook, who is most noted for his appearances as Mark Twain. The series has also found a following on cable television in the United States, where it airs as MI5 on the A&E Network. She divorced Arthur Carter in 1977 and married actor Gene Hearn.

A longer second season was screened in 2003, and a third season is due to air in the autumn of 2004. She is known for her Southern pride, which is evident in her product endorsements, like her appearance in commercials for Southern Bell (later BellSouth). In 2002 he took his highest-profile role to date, when he was picked to star in Spooks, which went on to become a huge popular and critical success when screen on BBC One. She also starred in several musicals and plays on Broadway. Also in 2001, he earned much critical acclaim for his starring role in the prestige BBC Two drama serial Perfect Strangers, which was written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff. From 1999 to 2002, she portrayed brash Southern attorney Randi King on the series Family Law. Further television drama work followed, including starring roles in the dramas Warriors (1999) and The Way We Live Now (2001), both for the BBC. However, she is best known for appearing as outspoken Julia Sugarbaker in the 1980s television program Designing Women, set in Atlanta.

MacFadyen's major TV breakthrough came when he co-starred in a television adaptation of Emily Brontė's novel Wuthering Heights, screened on the ITV network in 1998. Carter first became famous for her role as Brandy Henderson on the soap opera The Edge of Night. His Benedick was particularly memorable, played as an officer-class buffoon with a moustache and a braying laugh. She returned to acting at age 35. After having studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts from 1992 to 1995, MacFadyen quickly became a well-known actor on the British stage, due primarily to his work with the stage company Cheek by Jowl, for whom he played Antonio in The Duchess of Malfi, Charles Surface in The School for Scandal, and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. In 1967 she married businessman Arthur Carter, with whom she had two daughters. Following the birth of her daughters, she left acting for eight years to focus on raising her children. Matthew MacFadyen (born 1974) is a British actor, best known for his role as MI5 agent Tom Quinn in the BBC television drama series Spooks. She moved to New York in 1963 and got a part in a production of A Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare.

In 1960, Carter made her professional stage debut in a Memphis production of Carousel. She is a graduate of Memphis State (now University of Memphis) with a degree in English. She attended college at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and Southwestern at Memphis (now Rhodes College). Carter was born in McLemoresville, Tennessee and spent many of her early years in Memphis, Tennessee.

Dixie Virginia Carter (born May 25, 1939) is an American actress noted for her portrayal of Southern women.