Dixie Cooney
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Dixie Cooney was a resident of the fictional town of Pine Valley, Pennsylvania on the daytime soap opera All My Children from October 1988 to 1996 and again from July 3rd, 1998 to February 26th, 2002. Initially played by actress Kari Gibson, Dixie was played for most of her existence on the show by actress Cady McClain.
Dixie was a sympathetic character and the niece of industrialist Palmer Cortlandt (James Mitchell). She was first married to villanous multimillionare and Cortlandt's arch-enemy Adam Chandler (David Canary) and later to ladies' man "Tad Martin" (Michael E. Knight). The character was killed in an automobile accident while traveling back to Pine Valley from a heart clinic in Switzerland.