Audrey Landers

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Audrey Landers
Audrey Landers - 24th Annual Genesis Awards.jpg
Landers at the 24th Annual Genesis Awards in 2010
Born (1956-07-18) July 18, 1956 (age 68)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma mater Juilliard School
Columbia University
Occupations
  • Actress
  • singer
  • writer
  • producer
Years active1971–present
Spouse
Donald Berkowitz
(m. 1988)
Children2
Relatives Judy Landers (sister)
Website audrey-landers.com

Audrey Landers (born July 18, 1956) is an American actress and singer, best known for her role as Afton Cooper on the television series Dallas and her role as Val Clarke in the film version of A Chorus Line (1985). [1]

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Career

Before joining Dallas, she guest-starred in numerous television series, including The Dukes of Hazzard , Fantasy Island , The Love Boat and Battlestar Galactica and appeared as a panelist on Match Game in 1979 and on Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour in 1983–84. In the 1990s, she appeared in the television miniseries of Jackie Collins' Lucky Chances . From 1990 to 1992, she played the role of Charlotte Hesser, eldest daughter of upstate Pennsylvania mob boss Carlo Hesser on the ABC daytime series One Life to Live . [2]

After she left Dallas in 1984, she was cast by director Richard Attenborough as Val Clarke in the film version of A Chorus Line (1985). In 2013, she reprised her role of Afton Cooper in several episodes of the second season of the revival of Dallas . [3] [4]

With her young sons as inspiration, Landers created the children's television series, The Huggabug Club in 1996, [2] for which, in addition to writing the scripts, she also wrote the 250+ original songs in the series. Her partner (and mother), Ruth Landers, produced the series and donated it to Public Television for its five-year run.

In 2006, she co-wrote, and co-directed the family adventure film, Circus Island, a Ruth Landers production. Landers and her mother have also created a fashion line called Landers STAR Collection which is gaining global popularity through QVC UK, and in Italy, Canada, Germany, and the U.S. [5]

Personal life

Audrey is sister of actress Judy Landers, and has acted with her in several roles, including multiple episodes of The Love Boat and The Hitchhiker episode "Split Decision", as well as Circus Island and Ghost Writer, films produced by Ruth Landers. Audrey and Judy Landers were on the cover and in a non-nude pictorial of the January 1983 issue of Playboy . [6]

Landers married businessman Donald Berkowitz in May 1988. They have twin sons, Adam and Daniel, born in 1993. [7]

Selected filmography

Film and Television
YearTitleRoleNotes
1972–73 The Secret Storm Joanna Morrison Landers #1
1973 Search for Tomorrow Connie
1973 Room 222 Donna1 episode
1973 Marcus Welby, M.D. Tracy Robbins1 episode
1973 The F.B.I. Janine Winchell1 episode
1973 Emergency! Marsha1 episode
1974–76 Somerset Heather Lawrence
1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Actress On TV Screen (Uncredited)
1977 Happy Days Kitty1 episode
1977 Police Woman Nancy1 episode
1978 The Waverly Wonders Ginger1 episode
1978 Battlestar Galactica Miri1 episode
1979 Charlie's Angels Donna Rossitter1 episode
1979 Highcliffe Manor Wendy Sparkles5 episodes
1979–84 Fantasy Island Various roles5 episodes
1979 B.J. and the Bear Carol Cain1 episode
1979 Young Maverick Sara Lou Mullen1 episode
1979 1941 USO Girl
1980–84 The Dukes of Hazzard Billie Jean/Gail Flatt2 episodes
1981 Underground Aces Annie Wenders
1981–84, 1989 Dallas Afton Cooper 84 episodes
1982Tennessee StallionCharlotte
1982–85 The Love Boat Various roles4 episodes
1983 The Hitchhiker Priscilla Packard1 episode
1985 A Chorus Line Val Clarke
1986 Hotel Susan1 episode
1986 Crazy Like a Fox Dianne Bennett1 episode
1986 Getting Even Paige Starson
1986 Popeye Doyle Jill Anneyard
1987 Johann Strauss: The King Without a Crown  [ de ]Angelika Dittrich
1989 Midnight Caller Marie Devoe/Sandra1 episode
1989 MacGyver Carla Yeats / Roxy Yeats1 episode
1989Ghost WriterAngela Reid
1990 Lucky Chances MarabelleTV miniseries
1990–91 One Life to Live Charlotte Hesser 39 episodes
1991 California Casanova JB
1991 The Cosby Show Cookie Bennett1 episode
1992 Silk Stalkings Liza Gutierrez1 episode
1993 Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Toots1 episode
1994 Burke's Law Dancer1 episode
1995–97 The Huggabug Club Miss Audrey47 episodes
1986, 1996 Murder, She Wrote Greta Bayer/Phyllis Walters2 episodes
1996 Dallas: J.R. Returns Afton Cooper
2006 Circus Camp Lena Anderson
2008 Bachelor Party 2: The Last Temptation Bettina
2007–08 Burn Notice Veronica4 episodes
2011 Jackie Goldberg: Private Dick Nadia
2013–14 Dallas Afton Cooper 2 episodes
2018Love at SeaMaeve GrayhamHallmark film
2018Murder at the MansionIvy
2018The 5th BoroughDr. Bashin

Discography

Albums
Singles

Charts

Albums

YearAlbum D AUT CH NZ SWE
1983Little River [8] 419
1984Wo der Südwind weht [9] 41312
1985Paradise Generation [10] 5214
1986Weites Land [11] 16

Singles

YearSingle DE AUS [12] AUT CH NZ BE NL SA
1983Manuel Goodbye [13] 109043141
1983Little River [14] 286153438
1983Playa Blanca [15] 384763
1984Honeymoon in Trinidad [16] 25
1984Mi Amor [17] 522226
1985Summernight In Rome [18] 10
1988 Silver Bird
1997Heute habe ich an dich gedacht [19] 100

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