Tamara Tunie
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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).
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Elio
The Devil's Advocate
Flight
Wall Street
Snake Eyes
The Peacemaker
Rising Sun
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
Irreplaceable You
City Hall
A Journal for Jordan
Eve's Bayou
The Caveman's Valentine
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
Bloodhounds of Broadway
See You in September
Looking Through Water
Her Only Choice
The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU
Rescuing Desire
Circle of Deception
Showing Up
Nefertiti: Resurrected
BOSS: The Black Experience in Business
Sweet Lorraine
Preserving Democracy: Pursuing a More Perfect Union
Ghost Bike
The Passing On
Fall to Rise
Captain Blackout
Class of Her Own
Bad Vegan and the Teleportation Machine73 credits on file
Television 24
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Law & Order
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Chicago Fire
24
Better Call Saul
Blue Bloods
Billions
The Good Wife
Elementary
NYPD Blue
Sex and the City
Chicago Hope
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Sherri
Law & Order: Organized Crime
seaQuest DSV
Zoo
New York Undercover
Cowboy Bebop
Beyond the Gates
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
The Wendy Williams ShowConnected to Tamara 6
Jackie StewartAlso in Bad Vegan and the Teleportation Machine (2016)
Camryn ManheimAlso in Rescuing Desire (1996)
Aunjanue Ellis-TaylorAlso in The Caveman's Valentine (2001)
Diane NealAlso in Circle of Deception (2021)
Robert WisdomAlso in A Journal for Jordan (2021)
Walker ScobellAlso in Looking Through Water (2025)About this person
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.
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