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Tawny Cypress is an American actress. She has appeared in various television and stage plays. She starred as art dealer Simone Deveaux on the TV series Heroes. She previously held roles on several TV series, including Fox's drama K-Ville as Ginger "Love Tap" LeBeau, Carly Heath on House of Cards, and Cherie Rollins-Murray on the second and third seasons of the CBS series Unforgettable. In 2019, Cypress starred as Inez in the film Inez & Doug & Kira, for which she has received critical acclaim.^{[citation needed]} Since 2021, Cypress has starred as Taissa Turner on Showtime's Yellowjackets.

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Tawny Cypress
Born	Point Pleasant, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2000–present
Spouse(s)	Bill Charles ​ ​ (m. 2000; div. 2004)​ Tom Dillon ​ (m. 2011)​
Children	1

Her mother is of Hungarian descent and her father was Black and Native American, a partial descendent of the Accawmacke Nation of the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Cypress was born in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, and still resides in her native New Jersey.[1]

Biography

Tawny Cypress was born in Point Pleasant, New Jersey. She spent her childhood living in communities along the Jersey Shore, including the towns of Sea Girt, Belmar and Red Bank.[2] She attended Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Cypress also attended William Esper Studio, where she was invited to teach in 2020.[3] Since 2000, she has been actively working in film and television. Her brother is comic book artist Toby Cypress. Since 2011, she has been married to Tom Dillon. They have one child and reside in New Jersey with their many dogs and cats.[4] In 2021, Cypress was cast on Yellowjackets as Taissa Turner, a survivor of a horrific plane crash in the 1990s, now running for the New Jersey State Senate while trying to keep quiet the demons of eighteen months of survival in the Canadian wilderness.

Cypress revealed to the website autostraddle.com that she identifies as a queer woman.[5]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Autumn in New York	Melissa
2006	Bella	Frannie
2006	World Trade Center	Bleeding Woman
2009	Brooklyn's Finest	Allisa
2011	Remains	Cindy
2013	Home	Laura
2019	Inez & Doug & Kira	Inez

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	NYPD Blue	Rosana Booth	Episode: "A Hole in Juan"
2000–2005	Third Watch	A.D.A. Sharon Burns	Recurring role (7 episodes)
2001–2002	100 Centre Street	Cassandra Rodriguez	Recurring role (6 episodes)
2002	Hack	Anna Rowe	Episode: "Bad Choices"
2003	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Louisa Iberra	Episode: "Legion"
2003	All My Children	Prof. Shambala Stevens	Recurring role (6 episodes)
2005	Jonny Zero	Nina Calvo	Recurring role (6 episodes)
2005	Stella	Gemma	Episode: "Meeting Girls"
2006	Love Monkey	Crystal Sloane	Episode: "Mything Persons"
2006	The Time Tunnel	J.D.	TV film
2006–2007	Heroes	Simone Deveaux	Recurring role (14 episodes)
2007–2008	K-Ville	Ginger 'Love Tap' LeBeau	Recurring role (11 episodes)
2008	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Shawna	Episode: "Undercover"
2008	Army Wives	Brenda	Episodes: "Casting Out the Net", "Duplicity"
2009	House Rules	Robin Calhoun	TV film
2009	Rescue Me	Carla	Recurring role (5 episodes)
2010	Warehouse 13	Romana	Episode: "Age Before Beauty"
2011	Gun Hill	Andrea Logan	TV film
2012	The Good Wife	Melinda	Episode: "I Fought the Law"
2012	Blue Bloods	Patrice	Episode: "Nightmares"
2013	Elementary	Black Suit	Episode: "The Red Team"
2013	House of Cards	Carly Heath	Recurring role (5 episodes)
2013–2014	Unforgettable	Cherie Rollins-Murray	Regular role (26 episodes)
2016	Supergirl	Senator Miranda Crane/White Martian	2 episodes
2016	The Blacklist	Nez Rowan, a mercenary	4 episodes
2017	The Blacklist: Redemption	Nez Rowan, a mercenary	Main role, 8 episodes
2017	NCIS: New Orleans	FBI Special Agent Sarah Barns	Episode: "The Asset"
2018	Bull	Brooke Ford	Episode: "Excessive Force"
2018	FBI	Jillian Starls	Episode: "The Armorer's Faith"
2019	The Code	Col. Edina Corpus	2 episodes
2020	Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector	Naia	2 episodes
2021–present	Yellowjackets	Taissa Turner	Main role
2021	Billions	Dean Walker	Episode: "Copenhagen"
2022	The Equalizer	Dante's wife	2 episodes

References

External links

• Tawny Cypress at IMDb

На других языках

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[de] Tawny Cypress

Tawny Cypress (* 8. August 1976 in Point Pleasant, New Jersey) ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin.

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- [en] Tawny Cypress

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[es] Tawny Cypress

Tawny Cypress (Point Pleasant, Nueva Jersey; 8 de agosto de 1976) es una actriz estadounidense conocida por interpretar a Simone Deveaux en la serie Héroes de la NBC. Sus raíces tienen diversa procedencia : mientras su madre tiene orígenes húngaros y alemanes, su padre es de raíces afroamericanas y nativas americanas.

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[ru] Сайпресс, Тони

Тони Сайпресс (англ. Tawny Cypress, род. 8 августа 1976 (1976-08-08)) — американская телевизионная актриса. Она наиболее известна благодаря своей роли Симоны Дево в первом сезоне сериала «Герои». Хотя Сайпресс была в регулярном составе сериала, её персонаж был убит уже после тринадцати эпизодов. После она снялась в сериале «Полиция Нового Орлеана», который был закрыт после одного короткого сезона, а ранее имела второстепенные роли в сериалах Jonny Zero и «Третья смена», а также мыльной опере «Все мои дети»[1]. В дополнение к этому она была гостем в таких сериалах как «Закон и порядок: Специальный корпус», «Армейские жёны», «Спаси меня», «Хорошая жена» и «Карточный домик», а в 2013 году смогла получить регулярную роль второго плана во втором сезоне летнего сериала CBS «Помнить всё»[2].

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