
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
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Dr. Melinda Warner
The Devil's Advocate
Jackie Heath
Flight
Margaret Thomason
Wall Street
Carolyn
Elio
Colonel Markwell (voice)
Irreplaceable You
Jane
Snake Eyes
Anthea
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
Cissy Houston
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Filmography
Acting (71)
Movies (30)
Elio
2025as Colonel Markwell (voice)
Looking Through Water
2025as Miss Reno
Class of Her Own
2024as Narrator (voice)
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
2022as Cissy Houston
Preserving Democracy: Pursuing a More Perfect Union
2022as Self - Narrator (voice)
Circle of Deception
2021as Detective Williams
A Journal for Jordan
2021as Penny Canedy
Ghost Bike
2021as Fran
The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU
2020as Self
BOSS: The Black Experience in Business
2019as Narrator
Irreplaceable You
2018as Jane
Her Only Choice
2018as Brenda
Bad Vegan and the Teleportation Machine
2016as Josephine Bodder
Showing Up
2014as Self
Fall to Rise
2014as Annika
Captain Blackout
2014as Jessica Winters
Flight
2012as Margaret Thomason
Nefertiti: Resurrected
2003as Narrator
The Caveman's Valentine
2001as Sheila
Snake Eyes
1998as Anthea
The Devil's Advocate
1997as Jackie Heath
The Peacemaker
1997as Jody
Eve's Bayou
1997as Narrator (voice)
Rescuing Desire
1996as Van
City Hall
1996as Leslie Christos
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
1996as Miss Marcus
Rising Sun
1993as Lauren Smith
Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989as Cynthia Harris
Wall Street
1987as Carolyn
Sweet Lorraine
1987as Julie
Television (41)
Beyond the Gates
2025as Anita Dupree
Sherri
2022as Self - Guest
Law & Order: Organized Crime
2021as ME Dr. Melinda Warner
Cowboy Bebop
2021as Ana
Harlem
2021as Regina Walker
See
2019as Nevla, The Bank
Emergence
2019as Maria Wilkis
Almost Family
2019as Genevieve
Black Earth Rising
2018as Eunice Clayton
Dietland
2018as Julia
Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler
2018as Self
Billions
2016
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015as Self - Guest
Better Call Saul
2015as Anita
Zoo
2015as Brenda Montgomery
The Red Road
2014as Marie Van Der Veen
Alpha House
2013as Eve Simone-Lewis
Golden Boy
2013as Mrs. Nevel
Chicago Fire
2012as Melinda Warner
Elementary
2012as Lily Cooper
Blue Bloods
2010as Monica Graham
The Good Wife
2009as Serafina Norvy
The Wendy Williams Show
2008
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
2005as Melinda Warner
I Love the '90s: Part Deux
2005The Tony Danza Show
2004as Self - Guest
24
2001as Alberta Green
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999as Dr. Melinda Warner
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999as Dr. Melinda Warner
Sex and the City
1998as Eileen
Trinity
1998Prince Street
1997as Sharon
Swift Justice
1996as Jessie McKenna
Chicago Hope
1994as Lennie Gaghan
New York Undercover
1994
NYPD Blue
1993as Lillian Fancy
seaQuest DSV
1993as Laura
Law & Order
1990as Caroline Bennett
Spenser: For Hire
1985
Tony Awards
1956as Self - Presenter
As the World Turns
1956as Jessica Griffin
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