Updated on December 30, 2020 at 4:54 pm
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Actress Dawn Wells, who portrayed Mary Ann on the classic TV sitcom Gilligan s Island, died Wednesday at age 82, according to her publicist.
Wells died in Los Angeles due to complications of COVID-19, publicist Harlan Boll said in a Facebook post announcing her death.
Wells was one of the last surviving cast members of the show that featured three women and four men stranded on a desert island following the shipwreck of the S.S. Minnow.
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Wells passed peacefully (Wednesday) morning, in no pain, as a result of complications due to COVID, Boll said in a Facebook post. In the post, Boll referred to her as America s favorite castaway.
Actress Dawn Wells, the former beauty queen who became America’s sweetheart by playing the girl-next-door castaway Mary Ann on the TV series “Gilligan’s Island,” has died. She was 82.
Wells died Wednesday of complications from COVID-19, her publicist Harlan Boll said in a statement to The Times.
She had been in an assisted-living facility in Los Angeles.
“America’s favorite castaway, Dawn Wells, passed peacefully this morning, in no pain as a result of complications due to Covid,” Boll said.
The Reno native, who competed as Miss Nevada in the 1959 Miss America pageant, became synonymous with the castaway during the CBS sitcom’s run between 1964 and 1967. She also appeared in “77 Sunset Strip,” “Maverick,” “Bonanza,” “The Joey Bishop Show” and “Hawaiian Eye.”
Updated on December 30, 2020 at 4:54 pm
NBCUniversal Media, LLC
Actress Dawn Wells, who portrayed Mary Ann on the classic TV sitcom Gilligan s Island, died Wednesday at age 82, according to her publicist.
Wells died in Los Angeles due to complications of COVID-19, publicist Harlan Boll said in a Facebook post announcing her death.
Wells was one of the last surviving cast members of the show that featured three women and four men stranded on a desert island following the shipwreck of the S.S. Minnow.
In Memoriam: Remembering Public Pioneers We Have Lost in 2020
Wells passed peacefully (Wednesday) morning, in no pain, as a result of complications due to COVID, Boll said in a Facebook post. In the post, Boll referred to her as America s favorite castaway.
Updated on December 30, 2020 at 1:52 pm
NBCUniversal Media, LLC
Actress Dawn Wells, who portrayed Mary Ann on the classic TV sitcom Gilligan s Island, died Wednesday at age 82, according to her publicist.
Wells died in Los Angeles due to complications of COVID-19, publicist Harlan Boll said in a Facebook post announcing her death.
Wells was one of the last surviving cast members of the show that featured three women and four men stranded on a desert island following the shipwreck of the S.S. Minnow.
In Memoriam: Remembering Public Pioneers We Have Lost in 2020
Wells passed peacefully (Wednesday) morning, in no pain, as a result of complications due to COVID, Boll said in a Facebook post. In the post, Boll referred to her as America s favorite castaway.
Updated on December 30, 2020 at 3:54 pm
NBCUniversal Media, LLC
Actress Dawn Wells, who portrayed Mary Ann on the classic TV sitcom Gilligan s Island, died Wednesday at age 82, according to her publicist.
Wells died in Los Angeles due to complications of COVID-19, publicist Harlan Boll said in a Facebook post announcing her death.
Wells was one of the last surviving cast members of the show that featured three women and four men stranded on a desert island following the shipwreck of the S.S. Minnow.
In Memoriam: Remembering Public Pioneers We Have Lost in 2020
Wells passed peacefully (Wednesday) morning, in no pain, as a result of complications due to COVID, Boll said in a Facebook post. In the post, Boll referred to her as America s favorite castaway.