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About Tamara Tunie
Tamara Tunie is an American film, stage, and television actress, singer, director, and producer. She is best known for her roles as attorney Jessica Griffin on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns and as medical examiner Melinda Warner in the NBC police drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2000–2021). Tunie also appeared in films such as Rising Sun (1993), The Devil's Advocate (1997), The Caveman's Valentine (2001) receiving an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Female, Flight (2012), and Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022). Since February 2025, she has played the role of Anita Dupree on the CBS daytime soap opera Beyond the Gates, for which she received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2026.
Everything about Tamara Tunie →- Occupation
- actor, television actor, film actor, film director
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- March 14, 1959