Cast » Dixon Wilson

Dixon Wilson is played by Tristan Wilds. The adopted son of Harry and Debbie Wilson, who holds a strong bond with his sister Annie. He soon develops a romantic interest in his sister's friend Silver, and becomes her boyfriend after helping her with the school play. In "By Accident" he breaks up with Silver but then reconciles with her in "Help Me, Rhonda" when Silver indicates that she's in love with him. Silver loses her virginity to him on Valentine's Day. After finding out that Silver got a tattoo of his name, he is uneasy and has second thoughts about her. Their relationship continues to deteriorate as she exhibits strange and unusual behaviour, said behaviour reaching a climax when she films them having sex without his knowledge and then shows the tape to an entire theatre as her English project. Although Dixon breaks up with Silver after this, she continues to act out in an erratic fashion and Dixon eventually realizes that she is suffering from Bipolar disorder which his birth mother also sufferd from. In season 2 episode 1 "To New Beginnings" He and Silver are about to reconcile yet again but he learns that she had been texting Ethan in secret causing him to tell her he's done. He then begins to date Sasha, an older DJ who fakes a pregnancy to keep him from leaving her. He eventually finds out and in the latest episode, he kisses Silver, hinting a possible reconciliation. He seems to resemble Brandon Walsh from the original series, as he is athletic and also hired at the Peach Pit. His best friends are Navid, Liam, and Ivy. He is currently 17 years old. He and Ivy decide to fake being a real couple because they feel like outsiders. But later break-up and decide to go on a real date realizing they have feelings for each other. In the end of Season 2 they plan to go to Australia but Harry tells him he can't because he broke into the school and Harry was covering for his gambling addiction, which Debbie doesn't know about but she later finds out. When Dixon kissed Silver and told Ivy about it, their relationship was briefly put on hold but they later reconcile. When Debbie tells Dixon that he can't go to Australia, he sneaks out of the house while Harry and Debbie are arguing.

At the start of season 3 it is revealed that Dixon left Australia early due to his family's problems. Sasha, returns and surprises Dixon by telling him that she was HIV-positive. She warns him to get tested. It is revealed that he is HIV-negative. He breaks up with Ivy before his test results arrive, leading her into Oscar's hands.

For his work on 90210, Tristan Wilds was nominated for a 2010 Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Male Star: Drama and a 2009 Teen Choice Award in the category of Choice TV: Breakout Male Star. He recently appeared in HBO's critically acclaimed series "The Wire," and made his big-screen debut in the feature film "Half Nelson," starring Ryan Gosling, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

Named by Entertainment Weekly as one of the Breakout Stars of 2008, Wilds starred as Zachary Taylor in "The Secret Life of Bees," the screen adaptation of the novel written by Sue Monk Kidd. Wilds starred in the film alongside an all-star cast including Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifa, Jennifer Hudson and Alicia Keys. The film won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Motion Picture and two People's Choice Awards for Movie Drama and Independent Movie. During his summer hiatus, Wilds traveled to Prague to film the George Lucas feature film "Red Tails," a fictional tale inspired by the real-life Tuskegee Airmen – the first all-black aerial combat unit that flew during World Ward II. The ensemble cast includes Cuba Gooding Jr., Bryan Cranston and Terrence Howard.

Wilds was heard but not seen when he became the voice of the main character Blak for the animated feature film "Blokhedz," based on the independent graphic novel by Mark and Mike Davis.

Wilds also stepped into the world of music videos, appearing in "Ghetto Mindstate," by rap artist Li'l Flip and featuring Lyfe Jennings, as well as playing Jay Z's nephew in the music video "Roc Boys." Wilds was also one of the fresh new faces in Rocawear's 2008 "I Will Not Lose" campaign, as well as a Rocawear model.

Not to be limited to other artists' music videos, Wilds is also a talented singer and songwriter and is currently working on his first album. When not on a television or movie set, he can be found hard at work in a recording studio.