Helen Avis Drexel

Helen Avis Drexel
Born
Helen Avis Howard

November 19, 1911
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
DiedNovember 20, 1974(1974-11-20) (aged 63)
Savannah, Georgia, United States

Helen Avis Drexel (November 19, 1911 – November 20, 1974) was an American silent-film actress and heiress. She rose to prominence through her appearance in the John Berendt non-fictional novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1994), in which she was a composite character named Serena Dawes.