Audrey Landers had an amazing career in the 1980s that included posing for the cover of Hugh Hefner’s Playboy magazine in 1983.
Her roles included playing the devilish vixen on TV series like Dallas, Happy Days, Fantasy Island, The Dukes Of Hazzard, Hotel and The Love Boat.
She was also was on a soap opera in a ton of commercials, and modeled plenty as she put her blonde bombshell looks to good use.
And she had another hot girl in the family: her sister Judy also became a popular TV star as she appeared on Charlie’s Angels and Murder She Wrote.
Audrey – now 68 – made an appearance at the Southfork Experience in Texas last week, the same event Linda Gray and Charlene Tilton hit.
And she looks terrific even today.
Audrey Landers had an amazing career in the 1980s that included posing for the cover of Playboy magazine in 1983
She was best known for playing Afton Cooper on Dallas; seen here with star Larry Hagman as JR Ewing
The actress and singer is best known for her role as Afton Cooper on the television series Dallas.
In 2013, she reprised her role of Afton in several episodes of the second season of the revival of Dallas.
Dallas was the saga of the Ewing family and its massive oil empire in Texas.
Patriarch Jock had three very different sons.
The eldest was J.R., the relentless CEO of Ewing Oil – he was played by Larry Hagman.
Less obviously malicious are Bobby (played by Patrick Duffy) and Gary (played by David Ackroyd). There is plenty of backstabbing and lying.
The show was one of the biggest hits on TV ever.
Before joining Dallas, she guest-starred in numerous television series, including The Dukes of Hazzard, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat and Battlestar Galactica.
Audrey also appeared as a panelist on Match Game in 1979 and on Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour in 1983–84.
Ken Kercheval (as Cliff Barnes) with Landers (as Afton Cooper) on Dallas in 1983
L to R: Landers, Linda Gray, Patrick Duffy, Joan Van Ark, Charlene Hilton and Steve Kanaly of Dallas in 2023 in Palm Springs, California
She was also was on a soap opera in a ton of commercials, and modeled plenty as she put her blonde bombshell looks to good use
In the 1990s, Audrey 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.
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).
Audrey is sister of actress Judy Landers.
They worked together on The Love Boat, Split Decision, Circus Island and Ghost Writer.
Seen in 1981
In a glamour shoot in 1981
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)
Here she was at bottom on the cover of Playboy in 1983 with her sister at top
With her young sons as inspiration, Landers created the children’s television series, The Huggabug Club in 1996.
She worked with her mother Ruth Landers.
In 2006, she co-wrote, and co-directed the family adventure film, Circus Island.
Landers and her mother have also created a fashion line called Landers STAR Collection.
Landers married businessman Donald Berkowitz in May 1988. They have twin sons, Adam and Daniel, born in 1993.
Landers during the photo call for TV Show ‘Top, die Wette gilt! 75 Jahre Frank Elstner’ in Berlin in 2017 in Berlin
The siren made an appearance at the Southfork Experience in Texas last week, the same event Linda Gray and Charlene Tilton hit
And she looks terrific even today
