Tina Louise
Tina Louise ( born February 11, 1934 in New York) is an American actress.
They hired out by her school years, first as a model and nightclub singer; the acting career she learned to Elia Kazan actory Studio. In 1957 she celebrated at the side of Julie Newmar their first major success as an actress in the Broadway adaptation of the comic Li'l Abner. In the same year her first recording It's Time for Tina appeared.
Her Hollywood debut in 1958 in Anthony Mann's film adaptation of Erskine Caldwell - God's little acre, for which she received a Golden Globe Award for Best Young Actress. In the meantime, she moved to Italy. There she played in 1960 in the sandals movies Archimedes - the Lion of Syracuse and Sappho, Venus of Lesbos, and in Roberto Rossellini's Viva l' Italia! ( 1961). However, after her return, her Hollywood career did not quite get off the ground.
1964-67 she then played the role to date has influenced her most lasting image. In the CBS sitcom Gilligan's Island, she played the bitchy movie star Ginger Grant. It is said that Louise was not her series character dissimilar. Often they fell out with the producers of the show. So Ginger was originally planned as a cynical serene diva; However, Louise refused to play the role that way, and instead gave a reminiscent of Marilyn Monroe and Myrna Loy Vollweib. After the glory, for which she won the series, Louise looked but set to this role and made it responsible for the failure of their future career. She was also the only member of the series cast, which refused to play in the various successor from the series in the 1970s and 1980s.
1966-70 she was married to talk show host Les Crane. From this marriage the daughter Caprice went bold (* 1970), which has been a successful MTV producer and writer today. In the 1970s and 1980s, Tina Louise appeared in various television and Hollywood productions. Praise they earned The Stepford Wives (1975 ) especially for her performance in Bryan Forbes. It has also had numerous guest appearances on several television series; among other things, she played 1978-79 in five episodes of Dallas and 1990 in an episode of Married with Children. In the last episode of the sitcom Roseanne, she joined in 1995 then for the first time with their former colleagues from Gilligan - times. The Sherwood Schwartz, creator of Gilligan's Island, devoted result, there is a nigh postmodern mixing of the two fictional worlds. While the cast of Roseanne find yourself on Gilligan's Island, Gilligan the cast assume the roles in the home Roseanne Barr. Tina Louise took over the role of Roseanne.
In 2005, she took on a permanent role on the NBC soap opera Passions.