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Tamara Tunie

Acting

Born March 14, 1959 · McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA

Also known as Tamara Tunie Bouquett · Tamara Renee 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.

Filmography50+ titles

Better Call Saul

2015as Anita

Chicago Fire

2012as Melinda Warner

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2019as Nevla, The Bank

Law & Order: Trial by Jury

2005as Melinda Warner

Law & Order: Organized Crime

2021as Chief M.E. Melinda Warner

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999as Dr. Melinda Warner

Billions

2016as Amelia

Blue Bloods

2010as Monica Graham

24

2001as Alberta Green

Elementary

2012as Lily Cooper

The Good Wife

2009as Serafina Norvy

The Devil's Advocate

1997as Jackie Heath

Sex and the City

1998as Eileen

Almost Family

2019as Genevieve

New York Undercover

1994

Law & Order

1990as Caroline Bennett

Alpha House

2013as Eve Simone-Lewis

Wall Street

1987as Carolyn

Harlem

2021as Regina Walker

seaQuest DSV

1993as Laura

NYPD Blue

1993as Lillian Fancy

Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody

2022as Cissy Houston

A Journal for Jordan

2021as Penny Canedy

Elio

2025as Colonel Markwell (voice)

Emergence

2019as Maria Wilkis

Irreplaceable You

2018as Jane

Flight

2012as Margaret Thomason

Spenser: For Hire

1985

Zoo

2015as Brenda Montgomery

The Red Road

2014as Marie Van Der Veen

Cowboy Bebop

2021as Ana

Black Earth Rising

2018as Eunice Clayton

Eve's Bayou

1997as Narrator (voice)

Circle of Deception

2021as Detective Williams

Snake Eyes

1998as Anthea

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015as Self - Guest

Rising Sun

1993as Lauren Smith

Golden Boy

as Mrs. Nevel

BOSS: The Black Experience in Business

2019as Narrator

The Peacemaker

1997as Jody

City Hall

1996as Leslie Christos

Looking Through Water

2025as Miss Reno

Beyond the Gates

2025as Anita Dupree

The Caveman's Valentine

2001as Sheila

Dietland

2018as Julia

Her Only Choice

2018as Brenda

Sherri

2022as Self - Guest

Class of Her Own

2024as Narrator (voice)

The Passing On

2020Executive Producer

Bad Vegan and the Teleportation Machine

2016as Josephine Bodder