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Name: Audrey Landers
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Date of Birth:
July 18, 1956
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Place of Birth:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Mini-bio:
Audrey Landers is a multifaceted individual, always ready to explore her many talents. She is an accomplished actor, singer, writer, composer, and producer. Audrey can be seen as a recurring character...( read more), Veronica, in the USA network TV series, BURN NOTICE, and in the film, Bachelor Party, to be released in 2008 by 20th Century Fox. Perhaps she is best known for herportrayal of Afton Cooper in the world hit TV series, Dallas, in which she costarred for eight years. Audrey reprised her role as the sultry songstress in the Dallas reunion movie for TV. Playing the role of Val in the motion picture, A Chorus Line, was a challenge that Audrey met head on. Sir Richard Attenborough, the film's director, said, Audrey wore out two dance coaches... yet she never broke her concentration. She is an extremely focused young woman and was the highlight of the movie.
Music is my first love, says Audrey. At the age of twelve, she made her national television debut, performing a country song she wrote. That led to a recording contract in Nashville for Epic Records-and a yearlong stint on the daytime drama, The Secret Storm. Audrey spent her teen years working on the daytime drama, Somerset. She also studied music at the Julliard School in New York, while majoring in psychology at Columbia University. Then, Miss Landers moved to Los Angeles, and landed her role in Dallas -all before her 21st birthday!
Through the 1980's and 90's, Miss Landers enjoyed a successful recording career and concert tours throughout Europe. She earned 10 gold singles, 4 gold albums, and 2 platinum albums,having composed most of her hits. She has recorded for Ariola, BMG,Polydor, EMI, and WEA. Her recent hits have stayed on the top 20 Euro Regie charts since october 2006--almost one year! Miss Landers has wowed audiences around the world. She has co-headlined in Las Vegas and Atlantic City.
One of Audrey's most rewarding projects is her award-winning children's television series, The Huggabug Club. The show was created by my sister, my mother, and me, as a labor of love for all children. The musical, educational series was donated to PBS by Ruth Landers and ran for 5 years. Audrey and her sister, Judy, wrote 50 half-hour episodes, as well as the 250 original songs in the series. It was an enriching experience to write, produce, perform in, and even edit the series, says Audrey. It's so rewarding to be able to reach out to children and teach them valuable life lessons through music! I never run out of inspiration. I try to look at the world through a child's eyes.
Miss Landers' diverse talents have driven her career in many directions. Her successful family partnership with producer-managermother, Ruth Landers, and actor-writer-sister, Judy Landers, has churned out music videos, pilots, infomercials, and popular films and TV shows such as Ghost Writer, California Casanova, and Club Fed. CIRCUS CAMP is the most recent film of Landers ProductionZ. Completed in 2006, this family genre feature length film/pilot was co-written and co-directed by Audrey and her sister, Judy. Ruth Landers executive produced.