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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.
Storyline
Season 1
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.
Season 2
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.
Season 3
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 with one son. Upon realizing the relationship with Bette has reached a dead end, she gives Henry a chance and explores her renewed interest with him, planning to take Angelica away from Bette and start a family with Henry. 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.
Season 4
The fourth season, which is set immediately after the events of the third season, sees Bette return with Angelica after a short time away. Relations are generally strained between Bette and Tina at the start of the season, but things gradually improve between the pair, and they agree on shared custody of Angelica. Tina is still working in the movie studio, “Shaolin Studios”, and acquires the rights to adapt for the screen a novel of Jenny Schecter’s, “Lez Girls”. Work on “Lez Girls” strains the relationship between her and Jenny, a former close friend of hers, due to their conflicting opinions on how the piece should be adapted, and also leads Tina to meeting Kate Arden (Annabella Sciorra), the selected director for “Lez Girls”; it becomes apparent that there is a mutual attraction between the two. This happens around the end of Tina and Henry’s relationship (they end their relationship in episode 4.11, “Literary Licence to Kill”), and her attraction to Kate signals the return of Tina to lesbianism, or at least to relationships with women. At the very end of the season, it is revealed that the apparent reason for her both splitting up with Henry and not acting fully on her attractions to Kate is Bette. Tina confides in Kate about her returning attraction to Bette in episode 4.12 (”Long Time Coming”) when Kate asks her if it was Bette who was stopping Tina from acting on her attraction to Kate, and Tina replies “It was Bette”, and admits to wanting Bette back. However, despite this, Tina is seen helping Bette with her budding relationship with Jodi Lerner (Marlee Matlin), even though it is obvious she wants Bette back (although, she does not let Bette know this).
Season 5
Tina repeatedly clashes with Jenny while producing Les Girls, and begins an affair with Bette. For a while, both Tina and Bette wonder if what is happening to them is nothing more than a sexual reconnection. During a blackout, Bette and Tina get stuck in an elevator on their way to their Couple’s therapist. It is here that they confess each other’s fears and most importantly the love they have for each other. Both agree to keep the affair a secret until after the Subaru bikeride. The truth of the affair comes out during the camp fire “I Never” game. Confronted and pressed by Shane and Alice, Tina admits to still loving Bette. Jodi brushes her off when Tina confronts her at the Planet and apologizes for the affair. After Bette breaks off the relationship and endures a shocking public humiliation at Jodi’s art show, the future seems bright for Tina and Bette as they dance the night away at the Les Girl’s wrap party.
