Tamara Tunie

ActorProducerDirector Mar 14 (age 67) McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA 1985–2025 (40 year career)

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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

Film

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Dr. Melinda Warner

Film

The Devil's Advocate

Jackie Heath

Film

Flight

Margaret Thomason

Film

Wall Street

Carolyn

Film

Elio

Colonel Markwell (voice)

Film

Irreplaceable You

Jane

Film

Snake Eyes

Anthea

Film

Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody

Cissy Houston

Filmography

Acting (71)

Movies (30)

Elio

2025

as Colonel Markwell (voice)

6.9

Looking Through Water

2025

as Miss Reno

5.2

Class of Her Own

2024

as Narrator (voice)

Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody

2022

as Cissy Houston

7.0

Preserving Democracy: Pursuing a More Perfect Union

2022

as Self - Narrator (voice)

4.0

Circle of Deception

2021

as Detective Williams

A Journal for Jordan

as Penny Canedy

Ghost Bike

as Fran

The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU

2020

as Self

9.7

BOSS: The Black Experience in Business

as Narrator

Irreplaceable You

as Jane

Her Only Choice

as Brenda

Bad Vegan and the Teleportation Machine

2016

as Josephine Bodder

Showing Up

2014

as Self

9.2

Fall to Rise

2014

as Annika

Captain Blackout

2014

as Jessica Winters

Flight

2012

as Margaret Thomason

6.9

Nefertiti: Resurrected

2003

as Narrator

6.7

The Caveman's Valentine

as Sheila

Snake Eyes

as Anthea

The Devil's Advocate

as Jackie Heath

The Peacemaker

as Jody

Eve's Bayou

as Narrator (voice)

Rescuing Desire

as Van

City Hall

as Leslie Christos

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

as Miss Marcus

Rising Sun

as Lauren Smith

Bloodhounds of Broadway

as Cynthia Harris

Wall Street

as Carolyn

Sweet Lorraine

as Julie

Television (41)

Beyond the Gates

as Anita Dupree

Sherri

as Self - Guest

Law & Order: Organized Crime

2021

as ME Dr. Melinda Warner

Cowboy Bebop

as Ana

Harlem

as Regina Walker

See

as Nevla, The Bank

Emergence

as Maria Wilkis

Almost Family

as Genevieve

Black Earth Rising

as Eunice Clayton

Dietland

as Julia

Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler

as Self

Billions

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

as Self - Guest

Better Call Saul

as Anita

Zoo

as Brenda Montgomery

The Red Road

as Marie Van Der Veen

Alpha House

as Eve Simone-Lewis

Golden Boy

as Mrs. Nevel

Chicago Fire

as Melinda Warner

Elementary

as Lily Cooper

Blue Bloods

as Monica Graham

The Good Wife

as Serafina Norvy

The Wendy Williams Show

2008

5.5

Law & Order: Trial by Jury

2005

as Melinda Warner

8.1

I Love the '90s: Part Deux

The Tony Danza Show

as Self - Guest

as Alberta Green

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999

as Dr. Melinda Warner

7.9

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999

as Dr. Melinda Warner

Sex and the City

as Eileen

Trinity

Prince Street

as Sharon

Swift Justice

as Jessie McKenna

Chicago Hope

as Lennie Gaghan

New York Undercover

NYPD Blue

as Lillian Fancy

seaQuest DSV

as Laura

Law & Order

as Caroline Bennett

Spenser: For Hire

Tony Awards

as Self - Presenter

As the World Turns

as Jessica Griffin

Crew (3)

Movies (3)

The Passing On

2020

Executive Producer

See You in September

Director

See You in September

Producer