Biography
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.
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Filmography50+ titles
Better Call Saul
Chicago Fire
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Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Law & Order: Organized Crime
Billions
Blue Bloods
24
Elementary
The Good Wife
The Devil's Advocate
Sex and the City
Almost Family
New York Undercover
Law & Order
Alpha House
Wall Street
Harlem
seaQuest DSV
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
A Journal for Jordan
NYPD Blue
Elio
Emergence
Irreplaceable You
Flight
Spenser: For Hire
Zoo
The Red Road
Cowboy Bebop
Black Earth Rising
Eve's Bayou
Circle of Deception
Snake Eyes
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Golden Boy
Rising Sun
BOSS: The Black Experience in Business
The Peacemaker
City Hall
Looking Through Water
Beyond the Gates
The Caveman's Valentine
Dietland
Her Only Choice
Sherri
Class of Her Own
The Passing On
Bad Vegan and the Teleportation Machine