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Tina Louise


Birth Place: New York, New York, USA
Date of Birth: February 11, 1934
Heritage: American
Famous for: Her role as Ginger Grant on TV series Gilligan's Island (1966)

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Getting her education at UCLA, University of Miami in Ohio, the N.Y. Neighborhood Playhouse, and the Actors Studio, Tina was an experienced girl by the time that she showed up in showbiz. She also worked on Broadway in “Two's Company” with Bette Davis and in Li'l Abner.
By the 1960s she was cast in she will be her most famous role, the role of “Ginger” on “Gillian’s Island”. Early in the decade, Tina lived in Italy for eighteen months to try to get better roles than what Hollywood was offering. She had a three-year contract, though. Her complaints did lead the scriptwriters to create scripts built around each character in turn, so that each one would be at the center of an episode on different occasions.

But the 1960s ended and so did the show. Tina got more roles on popular TV shows like “Love Boat” thought the 1970s, 1980s, and even the 1990s, but most of her work turned out to be unspectacular; most of the time it had more to do with the fact that she played Ginger than because of her talent. . Tina eventually wrote a book about her childhood called “Sunday”, but that didn’t exactly fly either. The last recorded performance for the public was the revalidation of “Gillian’s Island” that premiered in the year 2000. 

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