Afton Cooper (formerly Van Buren) is a fictional character from the popular American television series, Dallas, played by Audrey Landers. Joining the cast during the fourth season and remaining until the first episode of the eighth, Landers returned at the end of the twelfth season for five episodes and reprised her role one more time in the 1996 TV movie, Dallas: J.R. Returns. In 2013, Afton returned in the second season of the new 2012 series, Dallas.