She also dabbled in the horror genre by appearing in the movies The Town That Dreaded Sundown and Return to Boggy Creek.
Outside of the Gilligan’s Island sphere, Dawn Wells performed a lot on stage in the years after the show’s cancellation, especially in musical productions during the 1970s and 1980s.
Well’s final credit was voicing Gumbalina Toothington in an episode of Netflix’s The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants.
Her later TV credits included reprising Mary Ann in ALF and Baywatch, as well as Growing Pains, Roseanne and The Bold and the Beautiful.