Released a solo album entitled 'Portrait' in May 1978.
Scenes cut from Francis Ford Coppola epic Apocalypse Now (1979)
She has had 2 children, with Robert Altman. James Clifford Altman was born on Thursday, January 14th, 1988 and Jessica Carter Altman was born on Sunday, October 7th, 1990.
She is the youngest of three children of Colby Carter and Jean Carter. Her brother is Vincent Carter and her sister is Pamela Carter.
She returned to her first love, singing, by appearing in the play "Chicago" at London's West End Adeplhi Theatre on Sunday, September 26th, 2005 as "Mama Morton", the leather-clad women's jailer for an 8-week run. Lynda has now successfully appeared in all three forms of acting, stage, screen and television.
She was in the film Apocalypse Now (1979) but her scenes were cut by the director, Francis Ford Coppola.
Singer
The son of one of her stunt doubles, Jeannie Epper, told his classmates that his mother was Lynda's stunt double on the series "The New Adventures of 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.
Toured as a singer with several rock groups before returning to Arizona in 1972.
Vital statistics in November 1986: 37-27-38
Went to Globe High School in Globe, Arizona and Arcadia High School, in Phoenix. She attended Arizona State University, but after being voted the "most talented" student, she dropped out in order to pursue a career in music.
When asked, during her on-line Lens Express chat on Monday, November 8th, 1999, who she would like to portray Wonder Woman in a big screen movie version, she stated that she would prefer either actress Catherine Zeta-Jones or supermodel Cindy Crawford.
When she was 17 she joined a band called 'The Relatives' (two of the members were cousins) which opened at the Sahara Hotel casino lounge in Las Vegas for three months. Because Lynda was under 21 she had to enter the casino through the kitchen. Gary Burghoff (who played Radar O'Reilly in "M*A*S*H") was the drummer.
While filming Battle of the Network Stars (1976) (TV), 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 sent 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 in 1972.