# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tamara-tunie
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:58:39.591Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tamara-tunie"
name: "Tamara Tunie"
slug: "tamara-tunie"
description: "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."
tagline: "American actress (1959-)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tamara_Tunie_2014_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1959-03-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           57.52
  momentum:             4.466612202777658
  historical:           17.61122
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0876645/"
    handle:    "nm0876645"
sources:
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    title: "Тамара Тюні"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تمارا توين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tamara Tunie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_Tunie"
    title: "Tamara Tunie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_Tunie"
    title: "Tamara Tunie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تامارا تیونی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tamara Tunie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tamara Tunie"
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    title: "Tamara Tunie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%83%80%EB%A7%88%EB%9D%BC_%ED%88%AC%EB%8B%88"
    title: "타마라 투니"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tamara Tunie"
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    title: "Tamara Tunie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tamara Tunie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Тюни, Тамара"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Tamara Tunie"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump