Overview (3)

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Strawberry blonde hair



Sparkling green eyes



Voluptuous figure



Movie-star beauty mark on her cheek.



Trivia (15)

She attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and trained at the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Actors Studio.





Her Broadway debut was in "Li'l Abner", where she played Apassionata Von Climax. She shared her dressing room with another actress making her Broadway debut in the same play-- Julie Newmar

Created a health care company, "TLC", and marketed a parasol for women to keep the sun off their skin.





Although she is most associated with playing Ginger Grant on Gilligan's Island (1964), she detests the role and has not appeared in any of the series' various reunion specials. According to Russell Johnson , Tina was told she would be the main star of the series when she was initially approached about doing it, and when she arrived in Los Angeles after accepting the offer, she found out otherwise. Johnson also recalls that while Tina remained professional throughout the series' run without raising a fuss, she "divorced herself from the show as soon as it went off the air".



She and fellow Gilligan's Island (1964) cast member Dawn Wells have both been asked to appear together in numerous television ad campaigns over the years. However, the two actresses have never liked each other and have not spoken in years. They have turned down many of these offers. The most notable one was a commercial for Old Navy clothing stores, which would feature them as Mary Ann Summers and Ginger Grant, still stuck on the island.

She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a lifetime member of the Actors Studio. She is also a volunteer reading teacher in the New York City school system.



Her parents, Sylvia (Horn) and Joseph Blacker, were both from Jewish families from Eastern Europe.





She included among the many women's names listed in the song "52 Girls" on the self-titled debut album (1979) by the American New Wave group The B-52's



A song on the album "If You Don't Already Have a Look" (2005) by the American garage rock group The Dirtbombs is named "Tina Louise" (#26 on Disc one).



On the Fox animated sitcom Bob's Burgers (2011), the family's two daughters are named, oldest to youngest, Tina and Louise.



She was not the first choice for Ginger Grant on Gilligan's Island (1964), at the time when Kit Smythe had to be let go from the casting, CBS executives wanted the more, softer side of the character.



Despite liking her work, she was the only cast member of Gilligan's Island (1964) that did not always get along with the crew.

She is a lifelong Democrat.



Personal Quotes (3)



[to director George Abbott during first dress rehearsal of "Fade Out, Fade In"] Mr. Abbott, do you mean I have to walk and talk at the same time?

[her advice to young actresses] The best movie you will ever be in is your own life, because that's what really matters in the end.

