Tamara Tunie

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Tamara Tunie

Acting 67 March 14, 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,…

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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

6.1 2015 TV Show
Better Call Saul

Better Call Saul

8.7 2015 TV Show
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

8.0 1999 TV Show
The Devil's Advocate

The Devil's Advocate

7.5 1997 Movie
Flight

Flight

6.9 2012 Movie
Law & Order

Law & Order

7.3 1990 TV Show
Chicago Fire

Chicago Fire

8.4 2012 TV Show
See

See

8.1 2019 TV Show
24

24

7.8 2001 TV Show
Elementary

Elementary

7.6 2012 TV Show
Sex and the City

Sex and the City

7.4 1998 TV Show
Wall Street

Wall Street

7.2 1987 Movie

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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

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2025
    Looking Through Water

    Movie Miss Reno

  2. 2025
    Elio

    Movie Colonel Markwell (voice)

  3. 2025
    Beyond the Gates

    TV show Anita Dupree

  4. 2024
    Class of Her Own

    Movie Narrator (voice)

  5. 2022
    Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody

    Movie Cissy Houston

  6. 2022
    The Sherri Shepherd Show

    TV show Self - Guest

  7. 2022
    Preserving Democracy: Pursuing a More Perfect Union

    Movie Self - Narrator (voice)

  8. 2021
    A Journal for Jordan

    Movie Penny Canedy

  9. 2021
    Harlem

    TV show Regina Walker

  10. 2021
    Cowboy Bebop

    TV show Ana

  11. 2021
    Law & Order: Organized Crime

    TV show Melinda Warner

  12. 2021
    Circle of Deception

    Movie Detective Williams

  13. 2021
    Ghost Bike

    Movie Fran

  14. 2020
    The Passing On

    Movie Executive Producer

  15. 2020
    The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU

    Movie Self

  16. 2019
    See

    TV show Nevla, The Bank

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  1. 2019
    Almost Family

    TV show Genevieve

  2. 2019
    Emergence

    TV show Maria Wilkis

  3. 2019
    BOSS: The Black Experience in Business

    Movie Narrator

  4. 2018
    Her Only Choice

    Movie Brenda

  5. 2018
    Black Earth Rising

    TV show Eunice Clayton

  6. 2018
    Dietland

    TV show Julia

  7. 2018
    Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler

    TV show Self

  8. 2018
    Irreplaceable You

    Movie Jane

  9. 2016
    Bad Vegan and the Teleportation Machine

    Movie Josephine Bodder

  10. 2016
    Billions

    TV show Amelia

  11. 2015
    The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

    TV show Self - Guest

  12. 2015
    Zoo

    TV show Brenda Montgomery

  13. 2015
    Better Call Saul

    TV show Anita

  14. 2014
    Fall to Rise

    Movie Annika

  15. 2014
    The Red Road

    TV show Marie Van Der Veen

  16. 2014
    Showing Up

    Movie Self

  17. 2014
    Captain Blackout

    Movie Jessica Winters

  18. 2013
    Alpha House

    TV show Eve Simone-Lewis

  19. 2013
    Golden Boy

    TV show Mrs. Nevel

  20. 2012
    Chicago Fire

    TV show Melinda Warner

  21. 2012
    Elementary

    TV show Lily Cooper

  22. 2012
    Flight

    Movie Margaret Thomason

  23. 2010
    Blue Bloods

    TV show Monica Graham

  24. 2010
    See You in September

    Movie Director