Tamara Tunie

Known for: Acting
Born: March 14, 1959, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA
Movies: 31

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.

Best-Known Movies

7.5

The Devil's Advocate

1997

6.9

Flight

2012

7.2

Wall Street

1987

6.2

Snake Eyes

1998

6.1

The Peacemaker

1997

6.9

Elio

2025

6.2

Rising Sun

1993

7.0

Irreplaceable You

2018

7.0

Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody

2022

6.0

City Hall

1996

Filmography

2025	Looking Through Water	Miss Reno
2025	Elio	Colonel Markwell (voice)
2024	Class of Her Own	Narrator (voice)
2022	Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody	Cissy Houston
2022	Preserving Democracy: Pursuing a More Perfect Union	Self - Narrator (voice)
2021	A Journal for Jordan	Penny Canedy
2021	Circle of Deception	Detective Williams
2021	Ghost Bike	Fran
2020	The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU	Self
2019	BOSS: The Black Experience in Business	Narrator
2018	Her Only Choice	Brenda
2018	Irreplaceable You	Jane
2016	Bad Vegan and the Teleportation Machine	Josephine Bodder
2014	Fall to Rise	Annika
2014	Showing Up	Self
2014	Captain Blackout	Jessica Winters
2012	Flight	Margaret Thomason
2003	Nefertiti: Resurrected	Narrator
2001	The Caveman's Valentine	Sheila
1998	Snake Eyes	Anthea
1997	Eve's Bayou	Narrator (voice)
1997	The Devil's Advocate	Jackie Heath
1997	The Peacemaker	Jody
1996	Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault	Miss Marcus
1996	Rescuing Desire	Van
1996	City Hall	Leslie Christos
1993	Rising Sun	Lauren Smith
1989	Bloodhounds of Broadway	Cynthia Harris
1987	Wall Street	Carolyn
1987	Sweet Lorraine	Julie

Directing, Writing & Producing

2010

See You in September

Director, Producer

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