Sheree J. Wilson  |  Mattie Roberts  |  Brad Leland  |  Amy Vanderoef

Sheree J. Wilson

Sheree’s start in show business, a career she secretly always wanted, happened by a lucky mistake. She attended the University of Colorado at Boulder and received a degree in fashion merchandising and business in 1981. Shortly after graduation, while working in Denver on a fashion shoot, one of the photographers thought Sheree was the model. He introduced her to Wilhelmina, the modeling agent from New York, who signed her on the spot. Sheree promptly moved to Manhattan and within eighteen months, had appeared in over thirty commercial campaigns for Clairol, Sea Breeze, Keri-Lotion and Maybelline. Her print work ran in such popular magazines as Mademoiselle, Glamour and Redbook.

After three years of modeling, Sheree's agent, Vicki Light, called her with an audition in a feature film, urging her to move to Los Angeles. She won the starring role, opposite Louise Lasser, Brian James and Reed Burney, in "Crimewave, a 1984 black comedy directed by Sam Raimi. Three days after that film wrapped, she was cast in “Velvet,” an ABC/Aaron Spelling MOW/series pilot, in which she played a female “James Bond” character opposite Shari Belafonte. Within the next year, she had a lead with Tim Robbins in "Fraternity Vacation", a summer comedy in which she played a intellectual beauty who was the object of everyone’s desire.

Producers began to take notice of this dynamic newcomer to Hollywood, and soon she starred in the 1985 CBS television miniseries “Kane & Abel,” with Peter Strauss. This immediately led to “Our Family Honor,” a CBS drama about Irish cops vs. the Mafia, in which she starred with Ray Liotta, Michael Madsen and Eli Wallach. Her career continued to grow including “News at Eleven” and “Power Play.” And then, in 1986, television producer Leonard Katzman called Sheree to talk about a part he thought was tailor-made for someone with her classic beauty and sassy, fun-loving, energetic nature.

Sheree may be best known for her role as April Stevens on the CBS mega-hit series “Dallas.” For five seasons (1986-1991), she played a brainy, wealthy femme fatale who, in her words, was “a bitch on wheels.” Her character went from being one of the most powerful women in Dallas and J.R. Ewing’s nemesis, to being one of the warmest characters in town, eventually marrying Bobby Ewing, the show’s ultimate good guy. Ultimately, April Stevens was gunned down during her honeymoon in Paris. Bowing out with a bang, Wilson’s performance earned her the “Soap Opera Digest Award” for Best Death Scene.

In fact, Sheree was pregnant and wanted to leave in order to fully devote herself to motherhood. At the end of that year, in 1992, she signed to do the lead female role in “Walker, Texas Ranger,” opposite Chuck Norris. Also in that year, she starred in the Showtime movie "Past Tense".

The daughter of two IBM executives, Sheree was born in Minnesota and moved to Colorado at the age of nine, where she learned to ride horses. Her superb equestrian skills won her first place riding cutting horses in the 1995 National Multiple Sclerosis Rodeo.

Currently, Sheree resides in Los Angeles.

Mattie Roberts

Mattie Roberts has made a career out of encouraging women—and many men—to "unleash their inner divas." Mattie passes along advice from chefs and showgirls; doctors and drag queens (they do have the best beauty tips, after all) with equal enthusiasm. She's all about helping people become as glamorous as they can possibly stand to be.

She is a frequent contributor to FoxNews.com Strategy Room and represents women everywhere who are “Fabulous Over Forty” on Fox News' FNCiMag.com. As part of her speaking business, she consults with individuals and groups on developing personal style and confidence; incorporating trends into real world applications and the always popular search for "Thin Thighs and Inner Peace." 

Mattie worked as a lifestyle reporter for WFAA and KTVT in Dallas and as a writer for The Dallas Morning News, as well as the Discovery Channel and MSNBC.

Her Emmy win for her hosting talents on TXCN’s "Mondays with Mattie", is testament to the fact that among her peers, she is also well received with her unique brand of lifestyle television. Mattie began her career in television after a short stint at SMU law school. Mattie's first job at the anchor desk was at KXII in Sherman, TX, but her real love of television blossomed when she started writing and producing her own segments on living a healthy, vibrant life.

This took her on a path to New York City where she reported for MSNBC, The Discovery Channel and made appearances on "The View". During this time she also owned a highly successful yoga studio. As it was located only two blocks from Bloomingdales, it gave a nice balance to the spiritual and glamorous aspects of Mattie’s personality.

Mattie is a fifth-generation Texan. She graduated from the Hockaday School in Dallas and Boston University, where she received a BA cum laude in Comparative Religion. Someday, she would like to find a cure for cellulite.

Mattie lives in New York City.

Brad Leland

Brad Leland's long and wide-ranging career has included roles in such feature films as Hancock; Friday Night Lights; Walking Tall II; The Return; Dr. T. and the Women; and Born on the Fourth of July.

Brad is one of the stars of the critially-acclaimed ABC series Friday Night Lights, playing the role of Buddy Garrity. Shooting for the new season begins in August in Austin, and it's rumored that Peter Berg — director of the feature film — may direct the series' season premiere.

His television work also includes roles on Comanche Moon; In the Heat of the Night; and Walker, Texas Ranger (8 episodes).

In 2009, Brad also shot Trauma, NBC's new series set in San Francisco, and performed voice-over for a character in the new spin-off of The Cleveland Show!

He has also been busy with speaking engagements and participating in celebrity golf tournaments in Florida, Cancun and the Southwest, and appeared at the Twenty-Third Annual Great Sports Legends Dinner to benefit The Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis.

Amy Vanderoef

Amy Vanderoef is the Emmy-nominated host on WFAA's Good Morning Texas! A proud graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) in New York City, she began her performing career with the New York USO, entertaining US military forces and veterans at Military bases and hospitals. She also worked as a performer for the US Department of Defense entertaining American Armed Forces stationed overseas in countries such as Bosnia, Macedonia, Iceland, Germany and Croatia.

 

In 2001, she took on a much different challenge when she was crowned Miss Connecticut USA, and became the state's representative at the Miss USA Pageant.

In 2004, she relocated to Dallas with her husband, Grant Stinchfield, an Investigative Reporter on NBC5. They are the proud new parents of baby Grant Wyatt.

Amy has appeared in dozens of commercials, was a guest star in two ABC daytime dramas; All My Children and One Life to Live, and has worked as a guest correspondent for ABC’s Good Morning America.