Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

Gender

Female

Birthday

1959-03-14 (66 years old)

Place of Birth

McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA

Also Known As

Tamara Tunie Bouquett
Tamara Renee Tunie

Tamara Tunie

Biography

Tamara Tunie is an American film and television actress, producer and director, best known for her portrayal of attorney Jessica Griffin on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns, and as medical examiner Melinda Warner on the NBC police drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Known For

7.5%

The Devil's Advocate

Oct 17, 1997

6.8%

Flight

Nov 2, 2012

8.7%

Better Call Saul

Feb 8, 2015

7.9%

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Sep 20, 1999

8.1%

See

Nov 1, 2019

8.4%

Chicago Fire

Oct 10, 2012

7.2%

Wall Street

Dec 10, 1987

7.4%

Sex and the City

Jun 6, 1998

7.6%

Elementary

Sep 27, 2012

7.8%

24

Nov 6, 2001

6.2%

Snake Eyes

Aug 7, 1998

6.0%

The Peacemaker

Sep 26, 1997

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Acting

2025

Beyond the Gates as Anita Dupree

2024

Class of Her Own as Narrator (voice)

2022		Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody as Cissy Houston
2022		Sherri as Self - Guest
2022		Preserving Democracy: Pursuing a More Perfect Union as Self - Narrator (voice)

2021		A Journal for Jordan as Penny Canedy
2021		Harlem as Regina Walker
2021		Cowboy Bebop as Ana
2021		Law & Order: Organized Crime as ME Dr. Melinda Warner
2021		Circle of Deception as Detective Williams
2021		Ghost Bike as Fran

2020

The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU as Self

2019		See as Nevla, The Bank
2019		Almost Family as Genevieve
2019		Emergence as Maria Wilkis
2019		BOSS: The Black Experience in Business as Narrator

2018		Her Only Choice as Brenda
2018		Black Earth Rising as Eunice Clayton
2018		Dietland as Julia
2018		Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler as Self
2018		Irreplaceable You as Jane

2016		Bad Vegan and the Teleportation Machine as Josephine Bodder
2016		Billions

2015		The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
2015		Zoo as Brenda Montgomery
2015		Better Call Saul as Anita

2014		Fall to Rise as Annika
2014		The Red Road as Marie Van Der Veen
2014		Showing Up as Self

2013		Alpha House as Eve Simone-Lewis
2013		Golden Boy as Mrs. Nevel

2012		Flight as Margaret Thomason
2012		Chicago Fire as Melinda Warner
2012		Elementary as Lily Cooper

2010

Blue Bloods as Monica Graham

2009

The Good Wife as Serafina Norvy

2008

The Wendy Williams Show

2005		Law & Order: Trial by Jury as Melinda Warner
2005		I Love the '90s: Part Deux

2004

The Tony Danza Show as Self - Guest

2003

Nefertiti: Resurrected as Narrator

2001		24 as Alberta Green
2001		The Caveman's Valentine as Sheila

1999

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Dr. Melinda Warner

1998		Trinity
1998		Snake Eyes as Anthea
1998		Sex and the City as Eileen

1997		Eve's Bayou as Narrator (voice)
1997		The Devil's Advocate as Jackie Heath
1997		The Peacemaker as Jody

1996		Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault as Miss Marcus
1996		Rescuing Desire as Van
1996		City Hall as Leslie Christos

1994		Chicago Hope
1994		New York Undercover

1993		NYPD Blue as Lillian Fancy
1993		seaQuest DSV as Laura
1993		Rising Sun as Lauren Smith

1990

Law & Order as Caroline Bennett

1989

Bloodhounds of Broadway as Cynthia Harris

1987		Wall Street as Carolyn
1987		Sweet Lorraine as Julie

1985

Spenser: For Hire

1956

As the World Turns as Jessica Griffin

Directing

2010

See You in September as Director

Production

2020

The Passing On as Executive Producer

2010

See You in September as Producer