Tamara Tunie
Acting
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.
Filmography 71
Movies (31)
Looking Through Water2025Miss Reno
Elio2025Colonel Markwell (voice)
Class of Her Own2024Narrator (voice)
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody2022Cissy Houston
Preserving Democracy: Pursuing a More Perfect Union2022Self - Narrator (voice)
A Journal for Jordan2021Penny Canedy
Circle of Deception2021Detective Williams
Ghost Bike2021Fran
The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU2020Self
BOSS: The Black Experience in Business2019Narrator
Her Only Choice2018Brenda
Irreplaceable You2018Jane
Bad Vegan and the Teleportation Machine2016Josephine Bodder
Fall to Rise2014Annika
Showing Up2014Self
Captain Blackout2014Jessica Winters
Flight2012Margaret Thomason
See You in September2010Directing
Nefertiti: Resurrected2003Narrator
The Caveman's Valentine2001Sheila
Snake Eyes1998Anthea
Eve's Bayou1997Narrator (voice)
The Devil's Advocate1997Jackie Heath
The Peacemaker1997Jody
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault1996Miss Marcus
Rescuing Desire1996Van
City Hall1996Leslie Christos
Rising Sun1993Lauren Smith
Bloodhounds of Broadway1989Cynthia Harris
Wall Street1987Carolyn
Shows (40)
Beyond the Gates2025Anita Dupree
Sherri2022Self - Guest
Harlem2021Regina Walker
Cowboy Bebop2021Ana
Law & Order: Organized Crime2021ME Dr. Melinda Warner
See2019Nevla, The Bank
Almost Family2019Genevieve
Emergence2019Maria Wilkis
Black Earth Rising2018Eunice Clayton
Dietland2018Julia
Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler2018Self
Billions2016Amelia
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert2015Self - Guest
Zoo2015Brenda Montgomery
Better Call Saul2015Anita
The Red Road2014Marie Van Der Veen
Alpha House2013Eve Simone-Lewis
Golden Boy2013Mrs. Nevel
Chicago Fire2012Melinda Warner
Elementary2012Lily Cooper
Blue Bloods2010Monica Graham
The Good Wife2009Serafina Norvy
The Wendy Williams Show2008
Law & Order: Trial by Jury2005Melinda Warner
I Love the '90s: Part Deux2005- The Tony Danza Show2004Self - Guest
242001Alberta Green
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit1999Dr. Melinda Warner
Trinity1998
Sex and the City1998Eileen