Tina Kennard
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| Tina Kennard | |
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| First appearance | Pilot (episode 1.01) |
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| Gender | Female |
| Occupation | Executive Producer |
| Family | Angelica Kennard (Daughter) |
| Portrayed by | Laurel Holloman |
| Created by | Ilene Chaiken |
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.
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[edit] Storyline
[edit] First season
At the beginning of the first season, 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 Jewell, Tina is distraught, and moves out of their shared house.
[edit] Second Season
During the second season, Tina lives 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.
[edit] Third Season
The third season is set six months after Angelica's birth, in which Tina and Bette are shown while suffering more marital strife (including Bette losing her job at the CAC, and showing little interest in finding a new one). The couple appears to be more distant than ever; Bette seeks partner support from an overwhelmed Tina, who starts looking for the protection Bette cannot give her outside the home. Helena Peabody has just bought a movie studio, and offers Tina the chief development executive position.
Bette's love seems to have less and less effect on Tina, who rediscovers her male attractions. Tina reveals these troubles to Bette, who decides to go on a spiritual retreat. Because of this revelation, Bette removes Tina's life-partner privileges. During Bette's retreat, Tina (who has already had an online fling and also a frustrated attempt at fulfilling her interest with a male movie producer) meets Henry Young (Steven Eckholdt), a divorced man. Upon realizing the relationship with Bette has reached a dead end, she gives Henry a chance and explores her renewed interest with him. As Tina and Henry continue settling in, Bette decides to visit Joyce Wishnea (Jane Lynch) -a gay civil rights lawyer Tina had previously contacted for her separation from Bette- in order to obtain the full custody of Angelica. Later on, Bette decides to withdraw her sole custody petition. The notification unfortunately reaches her lawyer too late. After receiving Bette's letter, Tina decides to withdraw her consent for allowing Bette to become Angelica's other legal parent. The season closes with Bette's desperate act to keep Angelica, as she kidnaps the baby and runs away.
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| Characters | ||||
| Main characters: Carmen de la Pica Morales • Dana Fairbanks • Tina Kennard • Jodi Lerner • Shane McCutcheon • Papi • Helena Peabody • Alice Pieszecki • Bette Porter • Jenny Schecter • Moira/Max Sweeney • Tasha Williams | ||||
| Minor characters: Gabby Deveaux • Marina Ferrer • Tim Haspel • Angelica Kennard • Phyllis Kroll • Angus Partridge • Peggy Peabody • Lara Perkins • Kit Porter • Other Characters | ||||
| Episode List | ||||
| Season 1 • Season 2 • Season 3 • Season 4 | ||||
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