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Full Delta Burke Biography
Delta Ramona Leah Burke (born July 30, 1956 in Orlando, Florida) is an American television and film actress. She is probably best known for her role as Suzanne Sugarbaker in the sitcom Designing Women.
Burke attended Colonial High School in Orlando, Florida, where she was voted "Most Likely to Succeed." After graduation, she won the Miss Florida title for 1974. Burke was paired with Miss 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.
Delta's best-known role as Suzanne Sugarbaker in Designing Women was created by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason. Before Designing Women, she spent a year on Filthy Rich (1982) playing the wily young widow, Kathleen Beck. After that, she played female football team owner Diane Barrow on 1st & Ten.
Delta became a blond for the short-lived TV sitcom Delta (1992), where she played an aspiring country singer. When the ratings plummeted, she became a brunette again to win over her fans. In 1995, she and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason reconciled their differences, and Burke returned back as Suzanne Sugarbaker in Women of the House (1995), but that show also had an early demise. It took more than a decade for Burke and Dixie Carter to reconcile, but they did so when Burke guest-starred on Family Law, which had Carter as a regular cast member.
Burke recently lost about 60 pounds, due to her nearly 10-year battle with type-2 diabetes. She plans to keep on losing weight until she is back down to a normal size, in order to remain healthy, as well as so she could play the role of "Truvy" in the Broadway production of Steel Magnolias; a role that required her to be more slender.
Burke has stated that she will be reprising her role as "Noleta" in the upcoming 2008 Del Shores' TV series "Sordid Lives: The Series" (LOGO/MTV) based on the film "Sordid Lives" with Emmy winner Leslie Jordan.
Burke has been a leading actress in a number of television films and had a supporting role in the Mel Gibson film What Women Want (2000).
She currently has a recurring role on Boston Legal as a former flame of William Shatner's character, Denny Crane named Bella Horowitz. Her character has an odd habit of tackling Denny. She and Denny seemed to rekindle their romance in the episode "On The Ledge". |
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