Gender

Female

Birthday, Age

1959 March 14 (66 years old)

Place of Birth

McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA

Tamara Tunie

Biography

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

Actress ( 1 )

Elio Colonel Markwell (voice)

Full Filmography

The Devil's Advocate

as Jackie Heath

Movie • 1997-10-17

Wall Street

as Carolyn

Movie • 1987-12-10

The Peacemaker

as Jody

Movie • 1997-09-26

Snake Eyes

as Anthea

Movie • 1998-08-07

The Caveman's Valentine

as Sheila

Movie • 2001-01-19

Nefertiti: Resurrected

as Narrator

Movie • 2003-08-17

Bloodhounds of Broadway

as Cynthia Harris

Movie • 1989-11-03

Rescuing Desire

as Van

Movie • 1996-05-14

Preserving Democracy: Pursuing a More Perfect Union

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Movie • 2022-01-06

Class of Her Own

as Narrator (voice)

Movie • 2024-04-16

Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody

as Cissy Houston

Movie • 2022-12-20

Flight

as Margaret Thomason

Movie • 2012-11-02

Showing Up

as Self

Movie • 2014-02-25

Sweet Lorraine

as Julie

Movie • 1987-01-01

Fall to Rise

as Annika

Movie • 2014-04-05

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

as Miss Marcus

Movie • 1996-11-23

Eve's Bayou

as Narrator (voice)

Movie • 1997-11-07

Rising Sun

as Lauren Smith

Movie • 1993-07-30

Irreplaceable You

as Jane

Movie • 2018-02-16

City Hall

as Leslie Christos

Movie • 1996-02-16

Her Only Choice

as Brenda

Movie • 2018-10-06

BOSS: The Black Experience in Business

as Narrator

Movie • 2019-04-23

Bad Vegan and the Teleportation Machine

as Josephine Bodder

Movie • 2016-10-16

Ghost Bike

as Fran

Movie • 2021-03-01

Circle of Deception

as Detective Williams

Movie • 2021-03-06

The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU

as Self

Movie • 2020-01-02

A Journal for Jordan

as Penny Canedy

Movie • 2021-12-22

Elio

as Colonel Markwell (voice)

Movie • 2025-06-18

Looking Through Water

as Miss Reno

Movie • 2025-09-05

The Tony Danza Show

as Self - Guest

Tv • 2004-09-13

Spenser: For Hire

Tv • 1985-09-20

24

as Alberta Green

Tv • 2001-11-06

New York Undercover

Tv • 1994-09-08

Chicago Hope

Tv • 1994-09-18

I Love the '90s: Part Deux

Tv • 2005-01-17

Emergence

as Maria Wilkis

Tv • 2019-09-24

The Wendy Williams Show

Tv • 2008-07-14

Trinity

Tv • 1998-10-16

Zoo

as Brenda Montgomery

Tv • 2015-06-30

See

as Nevla, The Bank

Tv • 2019-11-01

Golden Boy

as Mrs. Nevel

Tv • 2013-02-26

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Dr. Melinda Warner

Tv • 1999-09-20

Cowboy Bebop

as Ana

Tv • 2021-11-19

Sex and the City

as Eileen

Tv • 1998-06-06

The Good Wife

as Serafina Norvy

Tv • 2009-09-22

Billions

Tv • 2016-01-17

Chicago Fire

as Melinda Warner

Tv • 2012-10-10

Better Call Saul

as Anita

Tv • 2015-02-08

Blue Bloods

as Monica Graham

Tv • 2010-09-24

As the World Turns

as Jessica Griffin

Tv • 1956-04-02

seaQuest DSV

as Laura

Tv • 1993-09-12

Law & Order

as Caroline Bennett

Tv • 1990-09-13

Dietland

as Julia

Tv • 2018-06-04

Law & Order: Trial by Jury

as Melinda Warner

Tv • 2005-03-03

Black Earth Rising

as Eunice Clayton

Tv • 2018-09-10

Law & Order: Organized Crime

as ME Dr. Melinda Warner

Tv • 2021-04-01

The Red Road

as Marie Van Der Veen

Tv • 2014-02-27

Elementary

as Lily Cooper

Tv • 2012-09-27

Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler

as Self

Tv • 2018-06-04

Almost Family

as Genevieve

Tv • 2019-10-02

Alpha House

as Eve Simone-Lewis

Tv • 2013-04-19

Harlem

as Regina Walker

Tv • 2021-12-02

Beyond the Gates

as Anita Dupree

Tv • 2025-02-24

NYPD Blue

as Lillian Fancy

Tv • 1993-09-21

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

as Self

Tv • 2015-09-08

Sherri

as Self - Guest

Tv • 2022-09-12

Law & Order: Organized Crime

as Chief M.E. Melinda Warner

Tv • 2021-04-01

Prince Street

as Sharon

Tv • 1997-03-06