TISHA CAMPBELL / ACTRESS

Best known for the TV comedy--and real-life drama--of the Fox sitcom “Martin,� Tisha Campbell has sprung to a big-screen starring role in the romantic comedy “Sprung,� which opened earlier this month. The film has also given Campbell, 28, a chance to renew her singing career. The New Jersey native has a song on the “Sprung� soundtrack and is pursuing her own recording deal.

VALLEY GIRL: “I lived in the Marina when I first moved here eight years ago. But you get more for your money in the Valley. You still have places for horses and you can still get land, whereas you pay for the air you breathe in the Marina.�

HOW GREEN IS . . . : “In North New Jersey we kind of didn’t have any grass. I always said that when I get a little chump change I’d have a garden, and now I do.�

SLIME TIME: “I love gardening, even though I’m afraid of bugs. I’m trying to get past that. But the roses I do pretty well on. I like cutting and weeding--cutting more than anything, making flower arrangements from my garden.�

DREAM WORLD: “I love going to the Huntington Gardens in [San Marino]. My favorite is the rose garden, then the tropical and the Japanese. I like sitting there and having a nice sleep. Just pull up a tree.�

SELF HELP: “Last book I read was called ‘Getting Good Loving: How Black Men and Women Can Make Love Work’ by Audrey Chapman, a book on relationships. Self-motivating. Sometimes I read mysteries and I’ll scare myself to death, the motivational books, then black history, then books on religion. I get a little bit of something from them all--how to keep everything alive, self-love, relationship loving, luuuv.�

SATELLITE OF LUUUV: “We have a power struggle at home, my husband [Duane Martin] and I. We have a satellite dish, and when he pops up the green section on the guide--the sports section--he’ll pull televisions out of everywhere so he can watch regular TV and sports at the same time. But then he has to deal with me watching the Home & Garden channel.�

SUPERFAN: “I try to like sports! I really try! I ask questions, but immediately it just pops out of my head.�

NIGHT SCHOOL: “I still take acting classes with Howard Fine, and I’m taking directing classes at the American Film Institute. I want to be a director. For the acting, when you do a sitcom it’s completely different than film work, kind of overacting. You can’t apply the Stanislavsky Method to sitcoms. So you continue to study.�