Tamara Tunie

Actor

Born: March 14, 1959 (age 67)
From: 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.

Filmography (31)

Looking Through Water (2025)
Miss Reno
Elio (2025)
Colonel Markwell (voice)
Class of Her Own (2024)
Narrator (voice)
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022)
Cissy Houston
Preserving Democracy: Pursuing a More Perfect Union (2022)
Self - Narrator (voice)
A Journal for Jordan (2021)
Penny Canedy
Circle of Deception (2021)
Detective Williams
Ghost Bike (2021)
Fran
The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU (2020)
Self
BOSS: The Black Experience in Business (2019)
Narrator
Her Only Choice (2018)
Brenda
Irreplaceable You (2018)
Jane
Bad Vegan and the Teleportation Machine (2016)
Josephine Bodder
Fall to Rise (2014)
Annika
Showing Up (2014)
Self
Captain Blackout (2014)
Jessica Winters
Flight (2012)
Margaret Thomason
See You in September (2010)
Director
Nefertiti: Resurrected (2003)
Narrator
The Caveman's Valentine (2001)
Sheila
Snake Eyes (1998)
Anthea
Eve's Bayou (1997)
Narrator (voice)
The Devil's Advocate (1997)
Jackie Heath
The Peacemaker (1997)
Jody
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (1996)
Miss Marcus
Rescuing Desire (1996)
Van
City Hall (1996)
Leslie Christos
Rising Sun (1993)
Lauren Smith
Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989)
Cynthia Harris
Wall Street (1987)
Carolyn