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Tamara Tunie (born March 14, 1959) is an American film, stage, and television actress, director, and producer. She is best known for her roles as attorney Jessica Griffin on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns (1987–1995, 2000–2007, 2009) and as medical examiner Melinda Warner in the NBC police drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2000–present).

Tamara Tunie
Tunie in 2014
Born	(1959-03-14) March 14, 1959 (age 63) McKeesport, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Other names	Tamara Tunie Boquett
Education	Carnegie Mellon University (BFA)
Occupation	Actress, producer, director
Years active	1981–present
Spouses	Greg Bouquett ​ ​ (m. 1988; div. 1991)​ Gregory Generet ​ ​ (m. 1995; div. 2018)​

Tunie has appeared in a number of movies, including Wall Street (1987), Rising Sun (1993), The Devil's Advocate (1997), and Flight (2012). She received a Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female nomination for her performance in the 2001 drama film The Caveman's Valentine. In 2010, she made her directing debut with romantic comedy film See You in September. Tunie also received the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2007 for producing Spring Awakening and Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress in 2016 for Familiar.

Early life

Tunie was born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Homestead,[1] the daughter of Evelyn (née Hawkins) and James W. Tunie. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[2][3] She was a contestant in the Miss Black Teenage Pageant in Pittsburgh in the early 1970s.[4]

Career

Tunie made her Broadway debut alongside Lena Horne in Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music in 1981. From 1987 to 1995, she starred in the CBS daytime soap opera As the World Turns playing attorney Jessica Griffin.[5] She reprised the role from 2000 to 2007, receiving NAACP Image Awards nominations for Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series in 2003 and 2004. In the 1990s. Tunie guest-starred in primetime dramas including Swift Justice, Law & Order, Chicago Hope, New York Undercover, and Sex and the City. She also had a recurring role as Lillian Fancy in the ABC police drama NYPD Blue from 1994 to 1997.

Tunie has had supporting roles in a number of movies. She made her film debut in Sweet Lorraine opposite Maureen Stapleton and later appeared in Wall Street (1987). Tunie worked twice with Al Pacino; she portrayed his press secretary in the film City Hall (1996) and the possessed wife of a partner in his law firm in the film The Devil's Advocate (1997).[6] Her other credits include Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989), Rising Sun (1993), Eve's Bayou (1997), The Peacemaker (1997), and Snake Eyes (1998). In 2001, she received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Awards for her role in film The Caveman's Valentine, based on George Dawes Green's eponymous novel, opposite Samuel L. Jackson.[7]

In 2000, Tunie joined the cast of NBC police procedural series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as medical examiner Melinda Warner. She made her debut as Warner in the second-season episode titled "Noncompliance" and continued to make recurring appearances until Season 7, when she became a regular cast member. She also played this role in Law & Order: Trial by Jury in episode "Day" in 2005, and in the Chicago Fire episode "We Called Her Jellybean" in 2015. Tunie was regular on SVU from Season 7 to 12 and later made recurring appearances to Season 17. She later appeared in episodes in 2018 and 2019, totaling 223 credited episodes.

In 2002, Tunie played Alberta Green in the first season of the Fox thriller series 24. In 2010, she made her directing debut with romantic comedy film See You in September. In 2012, she returned to film, playing Margaret Thomason in the Robert Zemeckis-directed drama Flight starring Denzel Washington. From 2014 to 2015, she was regular cast member in the Sundance TV drama series The Red Road.

Tunie won a Tony Award in 2007 for the production of the Broadway musical Spring Awakening; she has also won a Drama Desk Award.[8][9] In 2016, she won an Obie Award for Distinguished Performance in Familiar, written by Danai Gurira.[10]

From 2016 to 2018, Tunie had a recurring role as Monica Graham in the CBS police drama series Blue Bloods. In 2018, she was regular cast member in two series, ABC comedy-drama Dietland and BBC Two/Netflix co-produced drama Black Earth Rising. In the latter she played Eunice Clayton, US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs.[11] Her other television credits include The Good Wife, Survivor's Remorse, Better Call Saul, and Almost Family.[12] Tunie also played Gugu Mbatha-Raw's mother in the 2018 romantic comedy-drama film Irreplaceable You.[13] In 2022, she set to appear as Cissy Houston in the biographical drama film I Wanna Dance with Somebody directed by Kasi Lemmons.[14]

In 2022 she played Kamala Harris in The 47th at The Old Vic theatre in London.[15]

Personal life

Tunie was married to Greg Bouquett from 1988 to 1991. From 1995 to 2018, she was married to jazz musician Gregory Generet. They separated in 2015.[16]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1987	Sweet Lorraine	Julie
1987	Wall Street	Carolyn
1989	Bloodhounds of Broadway	Cynthia Harris
1993	Rising Sun	Lauren Smith
1996	City Hall	Leslie Christos
1996	Rescuing Desire	Van
1996	Quentin Carr	Detective	Short film
1997	Spirit Lost	Anne
1997	Eve's Bayou	Narrator (voice)
1997	The Peacemaker	Jody
1997	The Devil's Advocate	Mrs. Jackie Heath
1998	Snake Eyes	Anthea, Reporter
2001	The Caveman's Valentine	Sheila Ledbetter
2007	AfterLife	Nicole	Short film
2012	Missed Connections	Felicity Gray
2012	Flight	Margaret Thomason
2014	The Power of Our Presence	Narrator (voice)	Short film
2014	Fall to Rise	Annika
2016	Bad Vegan and the Teleportation Machine	Josephine Bodder
2018	Irreplaceable You	Jane
2018	Her Only Choice	Brenda
2021	A Journal for Jordan	Penny Canedy
2022	I Wanna Dance with Somebody	Cissy Houston	Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1986	Spenser: For Hire	Nina	Episode: "Shadowsight"
1987–2009	As the World Turns	Jessica Griffin	Contract role
1993	Tribeca	Pretoria "Tori" Thomas	Episodes: "The Box", "Honor", "The Rainmaker"
1994–1997	NYPD Blue	Lillian Fancy	Recurring role
1995	seaQuest DSV	Laura	Episode: "The Siamese Dream"
1995	New York Undercover	Janice	Episode: "Bad Girls"
1996	Swift Justice	Jessie McKenna	Episode: "Bad Medicine"
1996	Law & Order	Caroline Bennett	Episode: "Deadbeat"
1996	Rebound: The Legend of Earl "The Goat" Manigault	Miss Marcus	Television film
1997	Feds	Martha Kershan	Episode: "Missing Pieces"
1997	Chicago Hope	Lennie Gaghan	Episode: "Leggo My Ego"
1998	New York Undercover	Lana Brooks	Episode: "Sign o' the Times"
1999	Sex and the City	Eileen	Episode: "The Cheating Curve" (Season 2 Episode 6)
2000–2021	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Dr. Melinda Warner	Recurring (Seasons 2–6, 13–17, 19, 21-23) Main (Seasons 7–12) 171 episodes
2002	24	Alberta Green	Recurring role (Season 1)
2003	Nefertiti Resurrected	Narrator	Television documentary
2005	Law & Order: Trial by Jury	Dr. Melinda Warner	Episode: "Day"
2011	Days of Our Lives	Judge Weston	2 episodes
2013	The Good Wife	Serafina Norvy	Episode: "Boom De Yah Da"
2013	Golden Boy	Mrs. Nevel	Episode: "Scapegoat"
2014	Alpha House	Eve Bettencourt / Eve Simone-Lewis	2 episodes
2014–2015	The Red Road	Marie Van Der Veen	Main role
2015	Captain Blackout	Jessica Winters	Television film
2015	Chicago Fire	Dr. Melinda Warner	Episode: "We Called Her Jellybean"
2015	Zoo	Brenda Montgomery	Episode: "First Blood"
2015	Survivor's Remorse	District Attorney Sandra Knowles	Episode: "A Time to Punch"
2016	Elementary	Lily Cooper	Episode: "Alma Matters"
2016	Billions	Amelia	Episode: "YumTime"
2016–2018	Blue Bloods	Monica Graham	Recurring role
2017–2018	Better Call Saul	Anita	3 episodes
2018	Dietland	Julia Smith	Main cast
2018	Black Earth Rising	Assistant Secretary Eunice Clayton	Main cast
2019–2020	Almost Family	Genevieve Palmer	Recurring role
2019	Emergence	Maria Wilkis	2 episodes
2021-2022	See	The Bank	6 episodes
2021	Cowboy Bebop	Ana	6 episodes

As a director

Year	Title	Notes
2010	See You in September	Director, producer

Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Category	Nominated work	Result
1995	Soap Opera Digest Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actress	As the World Turns	Nominated
2002	Independent Spirit Awards	Best Supporting Female	The Caveman's Valentine	Nominated
2003	Soap Opera Digest Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actress	As the World Turns	Nominated
2003	NAACP Image Award	Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series		Nominated
2004				Nominated
2012	SLFCA Award	Special Merit	Flight	Nominated
2013	Black Reel Awards	Best Supporting Actress		Nominated
2016	Obie Awards	Distinguished Performance	Familiar	Won

References

External links

• Tamara Tunie at IMDb
• Tamara Tunie at the Internet Broadway Database

На других языках

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[de] Tamara Tunie

Tamara Tunie (* 14. März 1959 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania als Tamara Tunie Bouquett) ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin.

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[es] Tamara Tunie

Tamara Tunie (McKeesport, 14 de marzo de 1959) es una actriz estadounidense, conocida por interpretar a la abogada Jessica Griffin en el serial televisivo de la CBS As the World Turns y a la médica forense Melinda Warner en el drama policíaco de la NBC Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. También, en 2010 incursionó como directora y productora en See You in September.

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[ru] Тюни, Тамара

Тамара Тюни (англ. Tamara Tunie, род. 14 марта 1959) — американская актриса, режиссёр и продюсер[1]. Она наиболее известна по своей роли судебно-медицинского эксперта Мелинды Уоррен в телесериале «Закон и порядок: Специальный корпус» (2000 — настоящее время), а также адвоката Джессики Гриффин в телесериале «Как вращается мир» (1987—1995 и 2000—2009 как приглашённая звезда).

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