She was natural Tina Blacker, an simply baby, to the Jewish family in New York City, and attended Miami University. She began her career as a model and nightclub singer while she exposed at a Actor's Studio.

Within 1957, she and Julie Newmar, both in Hexad' tall, processed their Broadway debuts in ''Li'l Abner. Her album It's Period for Tina'' was besides freed that month, sustaining songs like "Embraceable You" & "I'm In the Mood for Love."

She processed her Hollywood film debut in 1958 in ''God's Little Acre and was groomed for a career as a dramatic actress. Farther roles followed, around Broadway, & in films in Italy and Hollywood, but it failed to accelerate her career & within 1964 she joined the cast of the television series Gilligan's Island.

When movie star Ginger Grant, Louise finally achieved a level of fame & recognition, nonetheless she was unhappy using the role & caring that it would typecast her, which it apparently did.

When a series ended inside 1967, she continued to work witharound films & processed many guest appearances in various television series.

She appeared as a doomed suburban lady of the house in the original The Stepford Wives (1975), & each a film and her performance were swell received.

Despite this profits, she languished around secondary roles & within later on years blamed her deficiency of credibleness as an actress on the typecasting that got followed her profits by having Gilligan's Island, the program she got grown to detest.

She has non participated in any reunion specials or even more cases related to the series. She did come out as a semi-regular character in the 1980s prime-time soap opera Dallas for a time, & potentially processed an appearance on Married... with Children.

Within 2005, it was announced that Louise will join a cast of the soap opera Passions'' in the role of Helen Winthrop in the spring.

Trivia
Tina Louise appeared within an early Sixties "beach movie" using Bob Denver prior to the development of Gilligan's Island.