Delta Burke
Delta Burke was born in Orlando, Florida, United States on July 30th, 1956 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 68, Delta Burke biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Delta Ramona Leah Burke (born July 30, 1956) is an American actor, producer, and author.
Suzanne Sugarbaker appeared in CBS' Designing Women from 1986 to 1991, for which she was nominated for two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. Burke's other television appearances include Filthy Rich (1982–83), Delta (1992–93), Women of the House (1995) and DAG (2000–01).
She has directed and appeared in made-for-TV movies, appeared in the film What Women Want (2000), and appeared in the drama series Boston Legal (2006-07).
She has appeared in Thoroughly Modern Millie (2003) and Steel Magnolias (2005).
Early life and Miss Florida
Burke was born in Orlando, Florida, on July 30, 1956 to Jean, a single mother. After marrying her mother, Frederick Burke, a Orlando realtor, adopted her. She has never met her biological father. Jonathan Burke, a brother, and Jennifer, his sister.
Burke graduated from Colonial High School in 1974 and received the senior superlative "Most Likely to Succeed" award. She earned the Miss Flame crown from the Orlando Fire Department in 1972 and went on to become State Miss Flame. She won the Miss Florida title for 1974 in her senior year of high school, becoming the youngest Miss Florida titleholder in pageant history. Burke received a scholarship from the Miss America Organization, allowing her to enroll in a two-year study course at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Personal life
Burke has been married to actor Gerald McRaney since May 28, 1989. There are no children together, although McRaney has adult children from his previous marriages. Burke and McRaney's main residence is in Los Angeles, California; they also own a house in Telluride, Colorado, and one in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Burke has been diagnosed with type-2 diabetes.
Burke has worked with openly gay playwright and screenwriter Del Shores on several occasions in Sordid Lives and Southern Baptist Sissies. Burke and openly gay Tennessean actor Leslie Jordan were refused from the Nashville talk show Talk of the Town in 2006 after the show's managing director decided that the subject matter should be discussed would offend conservative viewers. Burke first became aware of gay people and gay rights by attending acting school in London and later in her sister, Jennifer, who is a lesbian.
Burke, a designer and boss of the clothing company Delta Burke Design, which is headquartered in New York City, is a designer and manager.
Burke and McRaney are also the owners of an antique store in Collins, Mississippi.
Burke has an obsession with hoarding, for which she underwent therapy. "I had 27 storage units at one time."I don't have a big enough house!"
She said, "I am a woman of color." "My mother had it, and it was my mother's fault." "I came home from the hospital in a diaper," the girl saved the diaper.Career
Burke appeared on ABC's Bozo the Clown in Orlando, Florida, in 1974, as part of winning Miss Florida.
In 1980, Burke played Bonnie Sue Chisholm, the second in the CBS western miniseries The Chisholms. Burke spent a year on Filthy Rich in 1982, playing Kathleen Beck, the wily young widow. Diane Barrow, the female football team owner, appeared on 1st & Ten from 1984 to 1986, after that.
Burke appeared in the CBS sitcom Designing Women in 1986, she was cast as Suzanne Sugarbaker; she skipped 1st and Ten in order to appear on the program. Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, who had previously played Burke in her film Filthy Rich, created Designing Women. Burke was one of the show's four female leads at an interior design firm in Atlanta, and four women attended, and four women were on display. (Dixie Carter, another of the leads, had been the lead actress on Filthy Rich.) The show struggled in the ratings and was even cancelled after its first year, but after being partnered with the sitcom Murphy Brown in 1989, it started receiving respectable ratings. Burke became the show's breakout star, earning two consecutive nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 1990 and 1991; she was the only lead female cast member of the show to be nominated. (Alice Ghostley was nominated for Supporting Actress in a Comedy in 1992 for her recurring role as Bernice Clifton, while Meshach Taylor was nominated in 1989 for Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.)
Burke expressed dissatisfaction with the program on a televised interview with Barbara Walters and other media outlets in 1990. On Entertainment Tonight, she argued that there was a labour dispute, and actors were often compelled to work over 15 hours per day, with executives even blocking the doors to hold actors on set. Dixie Carter, who had once been her close friend and maid of honor at her wedding to Gerald McRaney, was not speaking with her because Carter sided with her bosses, she said. Burke was barred from the show after her tumultuous relationships with Carter and the Thomasons at the end of the fifth season of Designing Women in 1991.
Burke was given her own vehicle by the Delta in 1992, in which she portrayed an aspiring country music artist. For the role, she dyed her hair blonde. Burke became a brunette once more as ratings plummeted. After one season, the series was cancelled. In 1995, she and Linda Bloodworth Thomason reconciled their differences, and Burke became Suzanne Sugarbaker in the Designing Women spinoff Women of the House (1995), but the show also demises early.
Burke and Carter were unable to reconcile for more than a decade, but they did so when Burke guest-starred in an episode of Family Law, in which Carter was a regular cast member.
Burke's weight has been a point of controversy in the tabloid press since the early 1990s. Her battles with weight, anxiety, and eating disorders date back to her early 1970s pageant days. She became a much-parodied celebrity in the media, including in a skit on Saturday Night Live, wherein Leon Phelps from The Ladies Man has a sexual obsession with her. Burke begged Thomason to write an article on her weight in 1989. "They Shoot Fat Women," the show opens. Suzanne Sugarbaker's 15-year high school reunion and feeling her emotions hurt after hearing disparaging remarks about her weight." Her appearance on this episode is said to have earned her her first Emmy Award as Best Actress.
Burke has appeared in a number of television films and appeared in the Mel Gibson film What Women Want (2004).
She co-starred with David Alan Grier on the comedy DAG in the early 2000s; she had shed a lot of weight for the role after being diagnosed with diabetes.
Burke made her Broadway debut in September 2003 as Mrs. Meers in the musical Thoroughly Modern Millie. After Harriet Harris and Terry Burrell, she was the third actress to appear in the film. She appeared in the role until February 2004, before being replaced by her Designing Women co-star Dixie Carter. Burke later appeared in Truvy in the original Broadway revival of Steel Magnolias, appearing in the role for the entire four months from April 4 to July 31, 2005.
In season three, she also played Bella Horowitz as a former flame of William Shatner's character, Denny Crane.
Burke appeared in a Hallmark Channel film titled Bridal Fever, which aired on February 2, 2008.
Burke appeared in the ABC comedy pilot Counter Culture in March 2012. However, after Burke was killed on the set, the pilot's development was suspended, and it wasn't picked up to series.