Tamara Tunie
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 14 March 1959 · 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.
Known for
Acting 35
- 2025Looking Through Water as Miss Reno
- 2025Elio as Colonel Markwell (voice)
- 2024Class of Her Own as Narrator (voice)
- 2022Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody as Cissy Houston
- 2022Preserving Democracy: Pursuing a More Perfect Union as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2021A Journal for Jordan as Penny Canedy
- 2021Circle of Deception as Detective Williams
- 2021Ghost Bike as Fran
- 2020The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU as Self
- 2019BOSS: The Black Experience in Business as Narrator
- 2018Her Only Choice as Brenda
- 2018Irreplaceable You as Jane
- 2016Bad Vegan and the Teleportation Machine as Josephine Bodder
- 2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self - Guest · 1 episode
- 2014Fall to Rise as Annika
- 2014Showing Up as Self
- 2014Captain Blackout as Jessica Winters
- 2012Flight as Margaret Thomason
- 2012Chicago Fire as Melinda Warner · 1 episode
- 2010Blue Bloods as Monica Graham · 1 episode
- 2003Nefertiti: Resurrected as Narrator
- 2001The Caveman's Valentine as Sheila
- 1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Melinda Warner · 139 episodes
- 1998Snake Eyes as Anthea
- 1997Eve's Bayou as Narrator (voice)
- 1997The Devil's Advocate as Jackie Heath
- 1997The Peacemaker as Jody
- 1996Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault as Miss Marcus
- 1996Rescuing Desire as Van
- 1996City Hall as Leslie Christos
- 1993Rising Sun as Lauren Smith
- 1990Law & Order as Caroline Bennett · 1 episode
- 1989Bloodhounds of Broadway as Cynthia Harris
- 1987Wall Street as Carolyn
- 1987Sweet Lorraine as Julie
Production 2
- 2020The Passing On · executive producer
- 2010See You in September · producer
Directing 1
- 2010See You in September · director