Biography

The son of one of her stunt doubles, Jeannie Epper, told his classmates that his mother was Lynda's stunt double on the series Wonder Woman (1975), but they didn't believe him, not even after he showed them a picture of his mother in the Wonder Woman costume from the set. When Lynda herself found out about this, she invited the boy's class to the set so they could see Jeannie herself in action.

She claims to be the first person who saw talent in a then-unknown Debra Winger. She screen-tested with several actresses to play Wonder Woman's younger sister Wonder Girl and told the producers that Winger stood out from the other candidates. After Winger was cast, Carter helped her out during the three episodes by being a big sister on and off the screen. However, Winger was unhappy with the experience and used her salary to hire an attorney to get her out of her contract. Then, she went on to pursue a film career and earned three Academy Award nominations. She later said that Carter was "a mannequin" who didn't want her to wear the same color eye-shadow as her. Carter, on the other hand, told Larry King that she was "surprised" by Winger's statements because they got on well and that she was a "tremendous actress". She also said that she wasn't hurt, since she was in good company, because Winger had said that she didn't like working with other actors including Shirley MacLaine and Richard Gere.

While filming Battle of the Network Stars (1976), she poured champagne over the head of host Howard Cosell after her team won the tug of war contest, not knowing he wore a hairpiece. Cosell was really upset. Later, whenever she saw him at a restaurant in New York, she would send over a bottle of champagne and he always knew that it was from her.

Won the title of Miss World USA representing her home state of Arizona (1972).

Performed many of her own stunts on Wonder Woman (1975) including hanging from a helicopter, to the nervousness of CBS, during the second season episode, Anschluss '77 (1977).

[When asked if she made a profit from the Wonder Woman dolls]: I think that you're probably familiar with a problem in Hollywood, and that is that they market you and they use you. They did a mask of my face and put it on the doll and they put my name on for the first run of it. And then they took my name off and said they didn't have to pay me anymore. So it's the kind of thing that you can be used SO much in this industry. I make nothing. I don't even make anything from the reruns. Don't ever settle for net profits. It's called "Creative Accounting".

I won't consider myself a star until I've had more experience. I think the real stars are people like Streisand, Brando, Dustin Hoffman, Hepburn... Hepburn is my favorite. She epitomizes to me what a star should be.

[When told by an interviewer that he owned a copy of her solo record album "Portrait"]: Oh my God. You and three other people.

[on hanging from the helicopter for an episode of Wonder Woman (1975)]: The stunt girl was about to go under it and I said "Oh, I can do this!". I ran under and they went up, and when the producers found out about it, they went ballistic.

[on the enduring popularity of the Wonder Woman (1975) series]: I'd like to think I had something to do with it, but it's a phenomenon unto itself. And it's not too bad to be a sort of pop icon, you know? It's not too tough to handle.