Serena (actress)


Serena is an American former pornographic film actress.

Pornographic film career

Serena starred in over 110 pornographic films between 1975 and 1988, including Sweet Cakes, Fantasm, Fantasm Comes Again, Sensual Encounters of Every Kind, Honky Tonk Nights, Dracula Sucks, Summertime Blue, Pleasure Palace, Small Town Girls and Insatiable.
Serena also made Accouplements pour voyeurs, Le Droit de cuissage and Les Nymphomanes in France, and Glühende Haut and assorted loops in Germany.
Playboy magazine published an interview with Serena in 1978, together with other "top adult performers". In 1976, she appeared in the film Body of My Enemy, as Frida de Düsseldorf, an amazing stripper. In 1979, she appeared in the film Hardcore in an uncredited role. She has dated Warren Beatty.
Serena was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame as a "film pioneer".

Magazine appearances

Pictorial

  • High Society March 1991, "Porn Star Hall of Fame"
  • High Society May 1986
  • The Very Best of High Society 1986, Vol. 1, Iss. 4, pg. 81–86, "Serena: Brush Strokes"
  • Eros Sex Stars February 1985, Vol. 1, Iss. 5, pg. 23–29, by: The POM Agency, "Her Highness Serena"
  • Mr. February February 1984
  • Expose! September 1983, Vol. 3, Iss. 7, pg. 46–53, by: n/a, "Serena"
  • Erotic Film Guide July 1983, Vol. 1, Iss. 7, pg. 20–25, by: Sneed Hearn, "Serena & Jamie: together again"
  • Eros May 1983
  • High Society April 1983, by: Bruce Kennedy
  • Mr. April April 1983
  • High Society March 1983, by: Don Lau, "What Ever Happened to Serena?"
  • Adult Cinema Review January 1983, Vol. 2, Iss. 7, pg. 38–51, "Serena's Scrapbook: Staying Saucy in Sausalito..."
  • Harvey December 1981
  • Velvet Talks August 1981
  • Eros May 1981
  • Playboy November 1980, Vol. 27, Iss. 11, pg. 180, by: Arthur Knight, "Sex In Cinema 1980"
  • Club August 1980, by: Serge Jacques
  • Cinema-X Review April 1980, Vol. 1, Iss. 4, pg. 49–53, by: Ted Snyder, "Serena"
  • Playboy November 1979, Vol. 26, Iss. 11, pg. 180, by: Arthur Knight, "Sex In Cinema 1979"
  • Playboy December 1978, Vol. 25, Iss. 12, pg. 245, by: Jim Harwood, "Sex Stars Of 1978"
  • Mr. November November 1978
  • Playboy July 1977, Vol. 24, Iss. 7, pg. 136, "The New Girls Of Porn"
  • Pix June 1975, Vol. 1, Iss. 6

Cover photos

  • Erotic Film Guide July 1983, Vol. 1, Iss. 7
  • Eros May 1983
  • Cinema-X Review April 1980, Vol. 1, Iss. 4
  • Pix June 1975, Vol. 1, Iss. 6
  • Beaver Fever 1975

Selected publications

Personal life

Serena lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where she works as a painter, writer, poet, and textile artist.

Interviews

  • Hustler July 1983, by: Jamie Gillis & Lisa DeLeeuw, "Are Porn Stars Really Good in Bed?"
  • High Society March 1983, "What Ever Happened to Serena?"
  • Adult Cinema Review January 1983, Vol. 2, Iss. 7, pg. 38+40+42+44-46+48+86-88, by: Sindi Sorrell, "Serena's Scrapbook: Staying *Saucy in Sausalito--The retired Queen of Kink regales our editor with lustful tales of yore."
  • ''Art Decades April 2015 Issue 3''

Articles

  • Metasex 2001, Vol. 1, Iss. 4, pg. 54–55, by: Michelle Clifford, "The Dynamic Duo, Serena and Jamie Gillis"
  • Cinema-X Review March 1981, Vol. 2, Iss. 3, pg. 24–26, by: Serena, "Serena Shares Serena"