Wilson, began her career in 1984, after she won the role of Megan Hathaway, the high-school sweetheart of Bo Brady, in the popular soap opera, Days of Our Lives.
[1] After Megan was killed off, Wilson was approached by John Conboy the producer of Capitol and asked to audition for the contract role of Kate Wells, working mainly opposite the rugged hero of the 50's and 60's cinema, Richard Egan.
On Life Is Wild, Wilson played the mother of the protagonist and was thrilled to spend two weeks filming on the savanna in South Africa, where she met some of the planet's coolest members of the animal kingdom - leopards, lions, giraffe, meerkats, hyenas and stripy zebras to name but a few.
When Wilson was returning to her career post childrearing, the first film she was cast in was High Strung, directed by fellow soap actor, Michael Damian.
It was this film that led producer/director Otto Bathurst to cast Wilson in the recurring role of Penma in the television adaptation of the popular video game, Halo.
During this time, Wilson co-founded and project managed a holistic primary school in Lewes, East Sussex, along with a handful of like-minded friends and educators.