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Wanda Morganstern (born Wanda Lynn Williamson; December 18, 1961) is an American actress, former fashion model, business entrepreneur and philanthropist. She began her modeling career in and around metropolitan Atlanta where she met and married Tom Buckley. They had one daughter, Alexia Buckley, before moving to New York City where Tom Buckley managed The Limelight nightclub in NYC, owned by Peter Gatien, and Wanda worked as a fashion model for Marc Jacobs, French Connection, Nicole Farhi and Intarsia Minks among others. Wanda Buckley moved back to Atlanta in 1987 where she began her career in commercial real estate, opening her firm, Agora Brokerage Company in 1999. Wanda created and hosted a TV special on human trafficking and the sexual exploitation of children that ran locally on Comcast. Wanda also created and hosted a daily radio talk show called Sandy Springs Today on AM1620 aka Radio Sandy Springs, where she became known as "The Wanda-ful Voice of Sandy Springs. Wanda began acting on stage, commercials, TV and film in 2012 and retooled her commercial real estate business in 2013 to Film Friendly GA where she started the first full service location services company for Atlanta's burgeoning film industry.

Wanda's community and philanthropic work includes leading a group of commercial property owners to meet with the City of Sandy Springs in an effort to revitalize the Downtown District. This group consisted of about 150 acres of commercial property along the Roswell Road corridor between I-285 and Abernathy Road. Wanda served as the Founding Chair of the Sandy Springs Perimeter Chamber of Commerce and was the first women to serve as Chair of its predecessor, the Sandy Springs Business Association. She contributes to Leadership Atlanta, youthSpark and the Georgia Production Partnership.

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