Harvey Brownstone Interviews Audrey Landers, Actress, Singer, Co-Star, "Dallas"

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About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Audrey Landers, is a popular and beloved actress, singer, writer, director, composer and producer who is perhaps best known for her portrayal of “Afton Cooper” for 8 years on the blockbuster TV series, “Dallas”, and in the 1996 TV movie, “Dallas: J.R. Returns”, and in the 2013 reboot of “Dallas”.

But beyond that iconic role, our guest has had a highly successful and diverse international career. On the big screen, she starred as “Val” in the movie version of “A Chorus Line”, and her other feature film credits include “1941”, “Tennessee Stallion”, “Deadly Twins”, “Getting Even”, “Freakshow”, “Ghost Writer”, “Last Chance Love”, “Circus Island”, “Deadly Closure”, and many more.

On television, besides her iconic role in “Dallas”, she played “Heather Lawrence Kane” in “Somerset”, she was “Charlotte Hesser” in “One Life to Live”, she was “Miss Audrey” in “The Huggabug Club”, an award-winning children’s TV show which she also wrote and produced, and she’s appeared in dozens of classic TV series including “Marcus Welby”, “The FBI”, “Happy Days”, “Police Woman”, “Charlie’s Angels”, “Fantasy Island”, “The Dukes of Hazzard”, “Murder She Wrote”, “Burn Notice” and many more.

And she’s also appeared in a number of great TV movies and miniseries including “The French Connection 3”, “Lucky Chances”, “Love at Sea”, “Murder at the Mansion”, and “Cloudy with a Chance of Christmas”. And in addition to her acting career, our guest is a multi-gold and platinum recording artist and songwriter, with 10 gold hit singles including some of my favorites: “Manuel Goodbye”, “Little River”, “Playa Blanca”, “Honeymoon in Trinidad”, “Mi Amor”, “Summernight in Rome”, and “Jim, Jeff & Johnny”. She’s performed at the most prestigious concert venues around the world.

And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest is also a major force behind the scenes, writing, producing and directing films, TV series and music videos. In addition to the immensely successful and influential children’s show “The Huggabug Club”, she coproduced feature films like “Ghost Writer”, “Club Fed”, “California Casanova” and “Circus Island”, which she also wrote and directed. And together with her brilliant mother, the wonderful Ruth Landers, whom we lost last year, our guest created the Landers STAR Collection, an immensely popular women’s clothing and accessories company. And among the many accolades she’s received over the years, in 2012, our guest was given a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Florida Motion Picture & Television Association.