Dawn Wells

Dawn started out as a chemistry major, later leaning toward theater training, as a student at the all-girl school, Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri. When she graduated, her first role was in a play portraying a fourteen-year-old boy.

Dawn was the cast member who received the most fan mail during the 1964-67 broadcasting of the CBS television sitcom, Gilligan's Island.

Dawn was arrested for possession of marijuana and sentenced to six months probation, after being pulled over while driving erratically in her car on October 17, 2007. Her lawyer produced witnesses that she was not intoxicated or otherwise under the influence when she left a surprise birthday party earleir that day and that a friend of hers did leave the marijuana in the car after borrowing it without her knowledge. Her driving was attributed to her trying to find the heating controls in the car, a new one with which she had no familiarity.