Serena is an American former pornographic film actress.
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Pornographic film career
Serena starred in over 110 pornographic films between 1975 and 1988, including Sweet Cakes (1976), Fantasm (1976), Fantasm Comes Again (1977), Sensual Encounters of Every Kind (1978), Honky Tonk Nights (1978), Dracula Sucks (aka Lust At First Bite) (1978), Summertime Blue (1979), Pleasure Palace (1979), Small Town Girls (1979) and Insatiable (1980).
Serena also made Accouplements pour voyeurs (1979), Le Droit de cuissage (1979) and Les Nymphomanes (shot 1979, released 1980) in France, and Glühende Haut (1979) 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 (USA) March 1991, "Porn Star Hall of Fame"
High Society (USA) May 1986
The Very Best of High Society (USA) 1986, Vol. 1, Iss. 4, pg. 81–86, "Serena: Brush Strokes"
Eros Sex Stars (USA) February 1985, Vol. 1, Iss. 5, pg. 23–29, by: The POM Agency, "Her Highness Serena"
Mr. February (USA) February 1984
Expose! (USA) September 1983, Vol. 3, Iss. 7, pg. 46–53, by: n/a, "Serena"
Erotic Film Guide (USA) July 1983, Vol. 1, Iss. 7, pg. 20–25, by: Sneed Hearn, "Serena & Jamie: together again"
Eros (USA) May 1983
High Society (USA) April 1983, by: Bruce Kennedy
Mr. April (USA) April 1983
High Society (USA) March 1983, by: Don Lau, "What Ever Happened to Serena?"
Adult Cinema Review (USA) January 1983, Vol. 2, Iss. 7, pg. 38–51, "Serena's Scrapbook: Staying Saucy in Sausalito..."
Harvey (USA) December 1981
Velvet Talks (USA) August 1981
Eros (USA) May 1981
Playboy (USA) November 1980, Vol. 27, Iss. 11, pg. 180, by: Arthur Knight, "Sex In Cinema 1980"
Club (USA) August 1980, by: Serge Jacques
Cover photos
Erotic Film Guide (USA) July 1983, Vol. 1, Iss. 7
Eros (USA) May 1983
Cinema-X Review (USA) April 1980, Vol. 1, Iss. 4
Pix (USA) June 1975, Vol. 1, Iss. 6
Beaver Fever (USA) 1975
Selected publications
Bright Lights, Lonely Nights - The Memories of Serena, Porn Star Pioneer of the 1970s (USA) 2014
Backstage Girls (USA) 2018
Poems From Mt. Tam (USA) 2019
Polk Street (USA) 2021
Stars In Our Eyes: An Unauthorized Biography (USA) 2021
Songs Of Silence (USA) 2022
Personal life
Serena lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where she works as a painter, writer, poet, and textile artist.
