Tina Kennard
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Tina Kennard is a fictional character on the Showtime television network series The L Word, shown nationally in the United States. She is played by American actress Laurel Holloman. Tina lives in Los Angeles, California, and mostly hangs out in West Hollywood. She is the mother of Angelica Kennard and former life-partner of Bette Porter.
At the beginning of Series One, Tina and Bette are in the process searching for a sperm donor so that Tina can be artificially inseminated. After a successful insemination, Tina conceives, but suffers a miscarriage before she is even showing. This event is very traumatic for Tina, who finds comfort in working for a charity organisation. Though she finds fulfillment there, her new career drives her further away from Bette. When Bette eventually has an affair with carpenter Candace, Tina is distraught, and moves out of their shared house.
At the beginning of Series Two, Tina is living with Alice, and under her advice, decides to seek legal advice over her situation with Bette. It is then revealed that Tina, in secret, has gotten inseminated again, and is now several months pregnant. Not wanting anyone to know about this because of her broken relationship with Bette and previous miscarriage, Tina hides her expanding body with loose clothes. Eventually, Alice notices that Tina appears to have gained weight, and blames this on the break up with Bette. It is then that Tina admits her pregnancy, but she still does not tell Bette about the baby. After her charity organisation is granted money from the Peabody Foundation, Tina begins a relationship with Helena Peabody. It is Helena who reveals Tina's condition to Bette, and the two are shown as having a rivalry for Tina's affections. Helena's promiscuity and possessiveness combine to push Tina back towards Bette, who in turn is reaching out to her over the loss of her father Melvin. Though Tina experiences a difficult and traumatic labour, her baby girl Angelica is delivered safely, and at the end of the series it is revealed that she plans to move back in with Bette and raise their baby together.
| the L word |
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| Characters |
| Main characters: Carmen de la Pica Morales | Dana Fairbanks | Tina Kennard | Shane McCutcheon | Helena Peabody | Alice Pieszecki | Bette Porter | Jenny Schecter | Moira/Max Sweeney |
| Minor characters: Gabby Deveaux | Marina Ferrer | Tim Haspel | Angelica Kennard | Peggy Peabody | Lara Perkins | Kit Porter | Other Characters |
| Episode List |
| Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | Season 4 |
