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.
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Known For
Acting History
2025
Looking Through Water as Miss Reno
2025Elio as Colonel Markwell (voice)
2025Beyond the Gates as Anita Dupree
2024Class of Her Own as Narrator (voice)
2022Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody as Cissy Houston
2022Sherri as Self - Guest
2022Preserving Democracy: Pursuing a More Perfect Union as Self - Narrator (voice)
2021A Journal for Jordan as Penny Canedy
2021Harlem as Regina Walker
2021Cowboy Bebop as Ana
2021Law & Order: Organized Crime as ME Dr. Melinda Warner
2021Law & Order: Organized Crime as Chief M.E. Melinda Warner
2021Circle of Deception as Detective Williams
2021Ghost Bike as Fran
2020The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU as Self
2019See as Nevla, The Bank
2019Almost Family as Genevieve
2019Emergence as Maria Wilkis
2019BOSS: The Black Experience in Business as Narrator
2018Her Only Choice as Brenda
2018Black Earth Rising as Eunice Clayton
2018Dietland as Julia
2018Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler as Self
2018Irreplaceable You as Jane
2016Bad Vegan and the Teleportation Machine as Josephine Bodder
2016Billions
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
2015Zoo as Brenda Montgomery
2015Better Call Saul as Anita
2014Fall to Rise as Annika
2014The Red Road as Marie Van Der Veen
2014Showing Up as Self
2014Captain Blackout as Jessica Winters
2013Alpha House as Eve Simone-Lewis
2013Golden Boy as Mrs. Nevel
2012Chicago Fire as Melinda Warner
2012Elementary as Lily Cooper
2012Flight as Margaret Thomason
2010Blue Bloods as Monica Graham
2009The Good Wife as Serafina Norvy
2008The Wendy Williams Show
2005Law & Order: Trial by Jury as Melinda Warner
2005I Love the '90s: Part Deux
2004The Tony Danza Show as Self - Guest
2003Nefertiti: Resurrected as Narrator
200124 as Alberta Green
2001The Caveman's Valentine as Sheila
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Dr. Melinda Warner
1998Trinity
1998Snake Eyes as Anthea
1998Sex and the City as Eileen
1997Eve's Bayou as Narrator (voice)
1997The Devil's Advocate as Jackie Heath
1997The Peacemaker as Jody
1997Prince Street as Sharon
1996Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault as Miss Marcus
1996Rescuing Desire as Van
1996City Hall as Leslie Christos
1994Chicago Hope as Lennie Gaghan
1994New York Undercover
1993NYPD Blue as Lillian Fancy
1993seaQuest DSV as Laura
1993Rising Sun as Lauren Smith
1990Law & Order as Caroline Bennett
1989Bloodhounds of Broadway as Cynthia Harris
1987Wall Street as Carolyn
1987Sweet Lorraine as Julie
1985Spenser: For Hire
1956As the World Turns as Jessica Griffin
1956Tony Awards as Self - Presenter