Early years

Landers was born Audrey Hamburg in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Landers began her acting career at the age of 9, when she starred in her first community theater musical, and continued acting and singing in community theater shows in New York State. Music was always a passion, and Landers began writing poetry and songs at a young age. Landers was first noticed with a country song that she wrote and performed at the age of twelve, which led to a Nashville recording contract with Epic Records, a performance on The Merv Griffin Show, and a year-long role on the daytime drama, The Secret Storm. During her teen years, she acted on the daytime drama Somerset and studied music at the Juilliard School in New York, while majoring in psychology at Columbia University. Her feature film debut came in The Tennessee Stallion (1978) with her sister, Judy Landers. Although Audrey is older than Judy by just over 2 years, they bear such a strong resemblance to each other that they have been mistaken for twins, and they have even appeared in a number of features together as identical twins.

Career

Landers moved to Los Angeles and on her 24th birthday, landed the role of Afton Cooper in Dallas, which she held for 84 episodes, from 1981 to 1984, and further episodes in 1989. She also appeared in the 1996 television movie Dallas: J.R. Returns. In the show, her character was a nightclub singer. Landers had already recorded two singles in the 1970s, but during her stint on Dallas, she recorded her first album, Little River (1983). She has since released over a dozen albums, mainly for European record companies. After she left Dallas in 1984, she played Val Clarke in the 1985 film version of A Chorus Line. In 2013 she reprised her role of Afton in several episodes of the second season of the revival of Dallas.

Before joining Dallas, she guest-starred in a number of television series, including The Dukes of Hazzard, Fantasy Island, Love Boat, and Battlestar Galactica and appeared as a panelist on Match Game 79. In the 1990s, she appeared in the television miniseries of Jackie Collins' Lucky Chances. From 1990-92, 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.

With her young sons as inspiration, Landers created the children's television series, The Huggabug Club in 1996, 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 5-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.

Personal life

Audrey is sister of actress Judy Landers, and has acted with her in several roles, including multiple episodes of The Love Boat 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.

Landers married businessman Donald Berkowitz in May 1988. They have 2 children, twins Adam and Daniel, born in 1993.

Filmography

Film and Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1971	Going Home	Teenage Arby's customer	uncredited
1972-1973	The Secret Storm	Joanna Morrison Landers #1
1973	Search for Tomorrow	Connie
1973	Room 222	Donna	1 episode
1973	Marcus Welby, M.D.	Tracy Robbins	1 episode
1973	The F.B.I.	Janine Winchell	1 episode
1973	Emergency!	Marsha	1 episode
1974-1976	Somerset	Heather Lawrence
1975	First Ladies Diaries: Martha Washington	Nelly Custis
1975	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Actress on TV Screen	uncredited
1977	Happy Days	Kitty	1 episode
1977	Police Woman	Nancy	1 episode
1978	The Archie Situation Comedy Musical Variety Show	Betty Cooper
1978	Goober & the Truckers' Paradise	Becky Pyle
1978	The Waverly Wonders	Ginger	1 episode
1978	Battlestar Galactica	Miri	1 episode
1979	Charlie's Angels	Donna Rossitter	1 episode
1979	Highcliffe Manor	Wendy Sparkles	5 episodes
1979	The Runaways	Verna Kenton	1 episode
1979	B.J. and the Bear	Carol Cain	1 episode
1979	Young Maverick	Sara Lou Mullen	1 episode
1979	1941	USO Girl
1981	Underground Aces	Annie Wenders
1982	Tennessee Stallion	Charlotte
1983	The Hitchhiker	Priscilla Packard	1 episode
1979-1984	Fantasy Island	Various roles	5 episodes
1980-1984	The Dukes of Hazzard	Billie Jean / Gail Flatt	2 episodes
1985	Deadly Twins	Polly Morrison
1985	A Chorus Line	Val Clarke
1982-1985	The Love Boat	Various roles	4 episodes
1986	Hotel	Susan	1 episode
1986	Crazy Like a Fox	Dianne Bennett	1 episode
1986	Getting Even	Paige Starson
1986	Popeye Doyle	Jill Anneyard
1987	Johann Strauss - Der König ohne Krone	Lily
1987	You Are the Jury	Sheila Farley	1 episode
1989	Midnight Caller	Marie Devoe / Sandra	1 episode
1981-1989	Dallas	Afton Cooper	84 episodes
1989	Freakshow	Shan
1989	Ghost Writer	Angela Reid
1989	MacGyver	Carla Yeats / Roxy Yeats	1 episode
1990	Lucky Chances	Marabelle	TV mini-series
1990-1991	One Life to Live	Charlotte Hesser
1991	California Casanova	JB
1991	The Cosby Show	Cookie Bennett	1 episode
1992	Silk Stalkings	Liza Gutierrez	1 episode
1993	Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman	Toots	1 episode
1994	Burke's Law	Dancer	1 episode
1995-2000	The Huggabug Club	Miss Audrey
1986, 1996	Murder, She Wrote	Greta Bayer / Phyllis Walters	2 episodes
1996	Dallas: J.R. Returns	Afton Cooper
1997	Last Chance Love	Michelle
2006	Circus Camp	Lena Anderson
2008	Bachelor Party 2: The Last Temptation	Bettina
2007-2008	Burn Notice	Veronica	4 episodes
2011	Armed and Deadly	Audrey Landers
2011	Jackie Goldberg Private Dick	Nadia
2013—2014	Dallas	Afton Cooper

Discography

Albums

• 1983 Little River
• 1984 Holiday Dreams (European release)/Wo der Südwind weht (Germany release)
• 1985 Paradise Generation
• 1986 Country Dreams (European release)/Weites Land (Germany release)
• 1988 Secrets
• 1990 My Dreams For You (European release)/Meine Träume für dich (Germany release)
• 1991 Rendez-Vous
• 1991 Das Audrey Landers Weihnachtsalbum
• 2005 Spuren eines Sommers
• 2006 Dolce Vita
• 2010: Spuren Deiner Zärtlichkeit

Singles

• 1978 Apple Don't Fall Far From the Tree
• 1979 You Thrill Me
• 1983 Manuel Goodbye
• 1983 Little River
• 1983 Playa Blanca
• 1984 Mi Amor (Camilo Sesto)
• 1984 Honeymoon In Trinidad
• 1985 Paradise Generation
• 1985 Jim, Jeff & Johnny
• 1985 Lucky
• 1985 "Reunited" Duet with Tom Jones
• 1985 Summernight In Rome
• 1986 These Silver Wings
• 1986 Yellow Rose of Texas
• 1986 Tennessee Nights
• 1987 Bella Italia
• 1988 Silverbird
• 1988 Never Wanna Dance (When I'm Blue)
• 1989 Gone With the Wind
• 1989 Sun of Jamaica
• 1990 Shine a Light
• 1990 Shadows of Love
• 1991 Santa Maria Goodbye
• 1991 Monte Carlo
• 1997 Heute habe ich an dich gedacht (with Bernhard Brink)
• 2004 Weil wir alle die gleiche Sonne sehen (with son Daniel)
• 2005 Sommernacht am Lago Maggiore
• 2006 In deinen Augen lag Dolce Vita
• 2007 Sommertraum
• 2009 "Weihnachten" (Christmas Time)
• 2009: Sommer, Meer und Sonnenschein
• 2010 "One Star" (Ein Stern)
• 2011 "Haïti Chérie"
• 2011 "Remember Yesterday" (An Jenem Tag)

Charts

Albums

Year	Album	D	AUT	CH	NZ	SWE
1983	Little River	—	—	—	4	19
1984	Wo der Südwind weht	4	13	12	—	—
1985	Paradise Generation	52	—	14	—	—
1986	Weites Land	16	—	—	—	—

Singles

Year	Single	D	AUT	CH	NZ	BE	NL
1983	Manuel Goodbye	10	—	4	3	1	4
1983	Little River	28	6	15	—	34	38
1983	Playa Blanca	38	—	—	47	6	3
1984	Honeymoon in Trinidad	—	—	—	—	25	—
1984	Mi Amor	52	—	—	—	22	26
1997	Heute habe ich an dich gedacht	100	—	—	—	—	—

[ Source: Wikipedia ]