Acting

Tamara Tunie

Born 1959-03-14 · McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA

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.

Credits

Newest first

Looking Through Water
as Miss Reno
2025
Elio
as Colonel Markwell (voice)
2025
Beyond the Gates
as Anita Dupree
2025
Class of Her Own
as Narrator (voice)
2024
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
as Cissy Houston
2022
Sherri
as Self - Guest
2022
Preserving Democracy: Pursuing a More Perfect Union
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2022
A Journal for Jordan
as Penny Canedy
2021
Harlem
as Regina Walker
2021
Cowboy Bebop
as Ana
2021
Law & Order: Organized Crime
as Melinda Warner
2021
Circle of Deception
as Detective Williams
2021
Ghost Bike
as Fran
2021
The Passing On
Executive Producer
2020
The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU
as Self
2020
See
as Nevla, The Bank
2019
Almost Family
as Genevieve
2019
Emergence
as Maria Wilkis
2019
BOSS: The Black Experience in Business
as Narrator
2019
Her Only Choice
as Brenda
2018
Black Earth Rising
as Eunice Clayton
2018
Dietland
as Julia
2018
Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler
as Self
2018
Irreplaceable You
as Jane
2018
Bad Vegan and the Teleportation Machine
as Josephine Bodder
2016
Billions
as Amelia
2016
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
2015
Zoo
as Brenda Montgomery
2015
Better Call Saul
as Anita
2015
Fall to Rise
as Annika
2014
The Red Road
as Marie Van Der Veen
2014
Showing Up
as Self
2014
Captain Blackout
as Jessica Winters
2014
Alpha House
as Eve Simone-Lewis
2013
Golden Boy
as Mrs. Nevel
2013
Chicago Fire
as Melinda Warner
2012
Elementary
as Lily Cooper
2012
Flight
as Margaret Thomason
2012
Blue Bloods
as Monica Graham
2010
See You in September
Director
2010
See You in September
Producer
2010
The Good Wife
as Serafina Norvy
2009
The Wendy Williams Show
2008
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
as Melinda Warner
2005
I Love the '90s: Part Deux
2005
The Tony Danza Show
as Self - Guest
2004
Nefertiti: Resurrected
as Narrator
2003
24
as Alberta Green
2001
The Caveman's Valentine
as Sheila
2001
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Melinda Warner
1999
Trinity
1998
Snake Eyes
as Anthea
1998
Sex and the City
as Eileen
1998
Eve's Bayou
as Narrator (voice)
1997
The Devil's Advocate
as Jackie Heath
1997
The Peacemaker
as Jody
1997
Prince Street
as Sharon
1997
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
as Miss Marcus
1996
Rescuing Desire
as Van
1996
Swift Justice
as Jessie McKenna
1996
City Hall
as Leslie Christos
1996
Chicago Hope
as Lennie Gaghan
1994
New York Undercover
1994
NYPD Blue
as Lillian Fancy
1993
seaQuest DSV
as Laura
1993
Rising Sun
as Lauren Smith
1993
Law & Order
as Caroline Bennett
1990
Bloodhounds of Broadway
as Cynthia Harris
1989
Wall Street
as Carolyn
1987
Sweet Lorraine
as Julie
1987
Spenser: For Hire
1985
American Playhouse
as Cynthia Harris
1982
As the World Turns
as Jessica Griffin
1956