Tina Louise

She did appear as a semi-regular character in the 1980s prime-time soap opera Dallas for a period. In the early 1960s, She starred in an episode of The Twilight Zone, The Ring-a-Ding Girl. She has not participated in any reunion specials or other events related to the series. At the time of her death from an overdose of sleeping pills, she was supporting herself as a typist. Despite this success, she languished in secondary roles and in later years blamed her lack of credibility as an actress on the typecasting that had followed her success with Gilligan's Island, a program she had grown to detest. McNamara's second film role was in Three Coins in the Fountain, but she only made two more films. She appeared in The Stepford Wives in 1975 and both the film and her performance were well received. Born in New York City, she began her acting career on the stage. She starred in the national company of The Moon Is Blue for eighteen months, before debuting on Broadway in The King of Friday's Men. She went to Hollywood when Otto Preminger cast her in the lead of his film version of The Moon is Blue, and she garnered a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

After the series ended in 1967, she continued to work in films and made numerous guest appearances in various television series. Maggie McNamara (June 18, 1928 - February 18, 1978) was an American actress. As movie star Ginger Grant, Louise finally achieved a level of fame and recognition, however she was unhappy with the role and worried that it would typecast her, which it apparently did. Further roles followed, on Broadway, and in films in Italy and Hollywood, but they failed to accelerate her career and in 1964 she joined the cast of the television series Gilligan's Island. She made her Hollywood film debut in 1958 in God's Little Acre and was groomed for a career as a dramatic actress.

Her album It's Time for Tina was also released that year, with songs such as "Embraceable You" and "I'm In the Mood for Love.". In 1957, she and Julie Newmar made their Broadway debuts in Li'l Abner. She started her career as a model and nightclub singer while she studied at the Actor's Studio. She was born Tina Blacker in New York City, and attended Miami University.

Tina Louise (born February 11, 1934) is an American film and television actress.