Lynda Carter

They were divorced in 1982. The second marriage was to lawyer Robert Altman on January 29, 1984. Halle Berry played Dandridge in the made for TV movie, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999). Her first was to her former agent, Hollywood producer and manager Ron Samuels on May 28, 1977. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6719 Hollywood Blvd. She has been married twice. She is interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, in Glendale, California. Her other credits include the title role in a 1983 biopic of Rita Hayworth and a variety of television specials. Modern analysts believe that she may have suffered from manic depression.

However, her acting career did not take off until 1975, when she landed her starring role in the Wonder Woman television series of the 1970s. In 1965, Dandridge was found dead in her home of an overdose of Imipramine, a tricyclic antidepressant. After some acting classes at several New York Acting schools she began making guest appearances on Tv shows such as Starsky and Hutch, Cos and Nakia. In 1957 she made Island in the Sun and in 1959 Porgy and Bess. It was her height at 5' 9" and beauty which lead her to enter a local beauty contest and she first achieved national fame when she won the title of Miss World USA in 1972, representing her home state of Arizona. Despite the nomination, she had to go to Italy to make her next movie, Tamango, in 1956. As a singer she toured with several rock groups before returning to Arizona in 1972. For this performance, she received an Academy Award nomination.

However she decided to take up music and singing and was voted the most talented Student and decided to leave Arizona State University to pursue a career in music. In 1954, Dandridge was cast in Carmen Jones, the remake of the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet. During her childhood she grew up as an avid reader of the Wonder woman comic books and usually imitated the idealism of a strong female character.She went to the Arcadia-itans High School in Phoenix where she found it difficult to be tall. During this period, she starred in several "soundies", video films designed to be displayed on juke boxes, including Paper Doll by the Mills Brothers and Cow Cow Boogie. Lynda Carter (born Lynda Jean Cordoba Carter on 24 July 1951 in Phoenix, Arizona) is an American actress. All of her early roles were stereotypical parts for African American actresses, but her singing ability brought her popularity in nightclubs around the country. She did not receive another role until 1940, when she appeared in Four Shall Die.

Her first on-screen appearance was as an extra in a 1935 Our Gang short, Teacher's Beau. Dorothy first important role was a small part in the Marx Brothers' A Day at the Races in 1937. Dandridge began singing in her church's choir and, with the prodding of her mother, moved to Hollywood. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, she was the first African American to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Dorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922 - September 8, 1965) was an American actress.