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She got her career started at a young age when growing up in the desert town of Phoenix.
The leggy wonder used her looks to score the Miss Arizona 1972 title as she made quite the impression in a one-piece swimsuit with her dark hair worn down.
She gained national attention by winning Miss World USA that same year, representing Arizona.
In the international Miss World 1972 pageant, representing the United States she reached the Top 15.
This comes years before she landed the coveted role of DC Comics superheroine in the mid to late 1970s.
Can you guess who she is?
The star is now age 74-years-old and still looks fabulous as she was spotted earlier this month in Washington, DC.
The leggy wonder used her looks to score the Miss Arizona1972 title as she made quite the impression in a one-piece swimsuit with her dark hair worn down
She gained national attention in the United States by winning Miss World USA that same year, representing Arizona
She is Lynda Carter, star of the popular TV series Wonder Woman which aired from 1975 to 1979, and she also popped up in the 2020 Gal Gadot movie Wonder Woman: 1984.
Carter started working at a young age.
At age five she made her public television debut on Lew King's Talent Show.
During high school, Carter performed in a band called Just Us which also had marimba, a conga drum, an acoustic guitar, and a stand-up bass.
At age 15, Carter started singing in the local pizza parlor to earn money.
A year later she joined two of her cousins in another band called The Relatives. The group opened at the Sahara Hotel and Casino lounge in Las Vegas for three months.
In 1970, Carter successfully auditioned for and then sang on tour with The Garfin Gathering and bandleader Howard Garfin.
The Garfin Gathering toured the Nevada Silver Circuit, playing shows in many of the state's casino lounges between Lake Tahoe, Carson City, Reno, and Las Vegas.
In 1972, Carter decided to leave the Garfin Gathering to pursue an acting career, returning to Arizona where she won beauty pageants.
When she moved to Los Angeles for acting she became friends with Les Moonves who seemed to open doors for her.
She landed a guest starring role on the hit TV series Starsky & Hutch.
She is Lynda Carter, pictured in 1980
The ever-youthful star is best known for playing the title character in the TV version of Wonder Woman (pictured), which ran from 1975 to 1979
When she was cast as Diana Prince/Wonder Woman in 1975, she became famous overnight.
And the timing was perfect as the day she got the part, she had $25 in the bank she has said many times in the past.
The Wonder Woman series lasted for three seasons, from 1975 to 1979.
After the show ended, Carter told Us that 'I never meant to be a sexual object for anyone but my husband. I never thought a picture of my body would be tacked up in men's bathrooms. I hate men looking at me and thinking what they think. And I know what they think. They write and tell me.'
In 2017, Carter explained she did not want to be a bombshell but rather a role model: 'I want women to want to be me, or be my best friend!'
Pictured singing on stage in 1978
Carter honored her late husband Robert Altman with an emotional song released in 2024; pictured in 2018
After Wonder Woman ended, she made a guest appearance on The Muppet Show.
Then she was on the Lynda Carter's Special (1980), Encore! (1980), Celebration (1981), Street Life (1982), and Body and Soul (1984).
She landed the title role in a biographical film about actress Rita Hayworth titled Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess (1983).
She worked on crime drama television series Partners in Crime with Loni Anderson in 1984.
She then portrayed Helen Durant in the 1989 CBS television film Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All.
Her movies include 1976's Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw, 1993's Lightning in a Bottle , 2001's Super Troopers, 2004's The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer Park, 2005's Sky High and The Dukes of Hazzard, 2006's Tempbot, 2007's Tattered, 2018's Super Troopers 2, 2020's Wonder Woman 1984 and 2021's The Cleaner.
Seen on the right earlier this month with Karen Sessions, Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Department of Transportation, at CES 2026 Preview at The House at 1229 in Washington, DC
Carter has been married twice.
Her first marriage was to her former talent agent, Ron Samuels, from 1977 to 1982.
On January 29, 1984, she married Washington, D.C., attorney Robert A. Altman. She left Hollywood in 1985 to join her husband in Washington, D.C., for a few years. The couple lived in a Potomac, Maryland.
Carter and her husband have two children: James Altman (born January 14, 1988) and Jessica Carter Altman (born October 7, 1990).
On February 3, 2021, Altman died at a hospital in Baltimore owing to a battle with myelofibrosis, a rare form of leukemia. He was 73.
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