Tina Louise

She did appear as a semi-regular character in the 1980s prime-time soap opera Dallas for a period. In 1971 she wrote her autobiography, I Was a Greek. She has not participated in any reunion specials or other events related to the series. When democracy returned to her home country, she returned, and became first a member of the Parliament for PASOK, and then Minister of Culture. 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. Pattakos was born a dictator and he will die as a dictator.". She appeared in The Stepford Wives in 1975 and both the film and her performance were well received. Mr.

After the series ended in 1967, she continued to work in films and made numerous guest appearances in various television series. When the dictatorship revoked her Greek citizenship, she said, "I was born Greek and I would die Greek. 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. During the period of dictatorship in Greece from 1967 to 1974, Mercouri lived in France. 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. Nominated for an Academy Award for Never on Sunday, she went on to star in such films as Topkapi, Phaedra, and Gaily, Gaily. She made her Hollywood film debut in 1958 in God's Little Acre and was groomed for a career as a dramatic actress. In fact, she had been making movies since 1955, first appearing in the Greek language film Stella.

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.". Born Anna Amalia Mercouri or Maria Amalia Mercouris, she became well-known to international audiences when she starred in the 1960 film Never on Sunday, directed by her husband Jules Dassin. In 1957, she and Julie Newmar made their Broadway debuts in Li'l Abner. Melina Mercouri (Μελίνα Μερκούρη; Athens,October 18, 1920 - New York, March 6, 1994) was a Greek actress and political activist. 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.