BACKGROUND DETAILS:

Lieutenant Green is Colonel White's executive officer and is an absolutely crucial part of Spectrum. With a razor sharp mind, this mixed-race beauty is knowledgeable about all aspects of Spectrum and its operations. She is so finely attuned to Colonel White that she is almost an extension of him, and he would certainly be lost without her.

Serena’s mother was a singer from Trinidad, her late father an American astronaut who was part of the ill-fated long-haul mission to Jupiter. Mission Control lost all contact with the craft on Serena's 12th birthday. She has never celebrated a birthday since.

Determined to follow her father into a career in space, she studied cosmology and computer technology at the University of Pennsylvania where she was an outstanding student, but failed the Space Agency's physical for the astronaut program due to a minor heart condition.

Her dream shattered, she took a computer systems development job with the United Nations in New York and became attached to the Security Development Committee where she worked for Sir Charles Grey - who would later become Colonel White. She was the technological designer of Spectrum Communications and Logistics, developing Spectrum's own computer and entire communications system. Seeing her excellent natural communication skills and how she could remain calm through adversity, Sir Charles took her with him as his assistant when he assumed control of Spectrum.

In the episode 'Contact', Green displays knowledge of martial arts and self-defence, when she comes to the rescue of Colonel White and saves his life against a assassination attempt by the Mysterons.

Green is a stunning, dazzlingly intelligent woman who has inherited her mother's voice and love of music. Off-duty, she has a great sense of fun, but is cool and efficient in Spectrum's Central Control. She carries a torch for Captain Blue.

ADDITIONAL DETAILS AND INTERESTING FACTS:

Jules De Jongh

Lieutenant Green's features are loosely based on actress Halle Berry, as she appeared in her role of Jinx Johnson in the 2002 James Bond movie, Die Another Day.

The voice for the character is provided by Jules De Jongh, who also performed the voice of Harmony Angel and Symphony Angel. She is no stranger voice performance as she provided several voices before 'New Captain Scarlet' and since for various TV shows and videogames.

In 2006, Jules De Jongh was a guest of the Fanderson convention. Along with fellow voice artists Wayne Forester, Julia Brahms, Mike Haley, Chris Finney and Shane Rimmer, he performed the voice-over for an on-stage performance based on the script of 'House of Dolls'. She played the part of Carrie Metcalfe, Captain Scarlet's sister.

Lieutenant Green is one of the two characters from the original 'Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons' series whose gender was changed from male to female in the new series (the other being Captain Ochre). In fact, the two are entirely different characters. However, the Serena Lewis' Lieutenant Green shares some traits with her male counterpart from the original series: she's still a Black person and has some Trinidadian background, if only from her mother' side.

Coincidentally enough, in the second installment of her Captain Scarlet fan fiction story 'Synchronicity', which features a number of parallel worlds, Marion Woods created a female Lieutenant Green... who was also named 'Serena', although her last name was 'Seymour-Griffiths', as a nod to the original Green's name, Seymour Griffiths. This installment was written in May 2004, more than a year before the release of 'New Captain Scarlet' on television. Great minds indeed think alike!