Her Big Breakthrough
In 1975, just three short years after she had left her music career and decided to model, Lynda Carter landed the starring role in a new superhero television show produced by Warner Bros. and DC Comics – the same people who had produced the popular and iconic Batman television show in 1966, starring Adam West.
Little did Carter realize back then, but the role would transform not just her life, but feminist discourse and women’s rights from end to end.
Amazonian Princess
Carter would play a character known as Diana Prince.
The character of Diana hails from a reclusive island in the pacific, knowns as Paradise, and inhabited by the Amazons; beautiful women who never age, and who were all blessed with amazing strength, agility and intelligence.
When an American pilot crash-lands on their island in the middle of World War II, Diana is selected to return him to America in her invisible jet. Armed with bullet-deflecting bracelets, a golden belt that holds the source of her powers, and an unbreakable, golden Lasso of Truth, she dons an American flag-inspired outfit and heads to the United States, where she becomes known… as Wonder Woman.