Serretta Wilson

{{Short description|British actress}}

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{{Infobox person

| birth_date = September 8, 1951

| birth_place = Fairfax, Virginia, U.S.

| occupation = Actress

}}

Serretta Diane Wilson (born 8 September 1951, Fairfax, Virginia) Virginia, Birth Records, 1912-2014, Delayed Birth Records, 1854-1911 is an American-born British actress.

Her father was employed by the American government in a capacity that had the family moving to different countries, over the course of which Wilson learned French, Spanish, and Italian, and took up fencing, horseback riding, singing, and dance.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gloucestershire-echo-bimbo-act-by-cl/171690895/|title=Bimbo act by clever Serretta|first1=Tracey|last1=Tobin|work=The Gloucestershire Echo|date=21 February 1990|pages=9|via=newspapers.com}}

She is known particularly for playing Marilyn Monroe in I'm Dreaming the Hardest, and also appeared with Timothy West in Death of a Salesman.{{cite web | url=https://serettawilson.com/index.php/acting/ | title=Acting | Seretta Wilson }} In 1990, she appeared in the Cheltenham performance of Noises Off.

On television, she danced with The Young Generation, and has played parts in Thriller (1975), The Zoo Gang, The Borgias, Jeeves and Wooster (1993), and London Bridge on television, and small roles in films such as Up the Chastity Belt (1972), Tower of Evil (1972), Our Miss Fred (1972), Psychomania (1973), Keep It Up Downstairs (1976) and Sweeney 2 (1978). In the Dad's Army episode "Getting the Bird" (1972), she appeared as Sergeant Wilson's estranged daughter. In the Space: 1999 episode Dorzak, Wilson plays the part of a refugee.

In 1995, she appeared in a production of The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-northern-echo-3-am-ed-encounter-o/171692082/|title=Encounter on platform 1|work=The Northern Echo|date=26 May 1995|pages=3|via=newspapers.com}}