Portrait of Tamara Tunie

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.

Born: March 14, 1959

Place of Birth: McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA

Filmography

2025
2025
Elio

as Colonel Markwell (voice)

2025
Beyond the Gates

as Anita Dupree

2024
Class of Her Own

as Narrator (voice)

2022
Sherri

as Self - Guest

2021
A Journal for Jordan

as Penny Canedy

2021
Harlem

as Regina Walker

2021
2021
Law & Order: Organized Crime

as ME Dr. Melinda Warner

2021
Law & Order: Organized Crime

as Chief M.E. Melinda Warner

2021
Circle of Deception

as Detective Williams

2021
Ghost Bike

as Fran

2019
See

as Nevla, The Bank

2019
Almost Family

as Genevieve

2019
Emergence

as Maria Wilkis

2018
2018
Black Earth Rising

as Eunice Clayton

2018
Dietland

as Julia

2015
Zoo

as Brenda Montgomery

2015
2014
Fall to Rise

as Annika

2014
The Red Road

as Marie Van Der Veen

2014
Showing Up

as Self

2013
Alpha House

as Eve Simone-Lewis

2013
Golden Boy

as Mrs. Nevel

2012
Chicago Fire

as Melinda Warner

2012
Elementary

as Lily Cooper

2012
Flight

as Margaret Thomason

2010
Blue Bloods

as Monica Graham

2009
The Good Wife

as Serafina Norvy

2005
2003
2001
24

as Alberta Green

1999
1998
Snake Eyes

as Anthea

1998
1997
Eve's Bayou

as Narrator (voice)

1997
The Devil's Advocate

as Jackie Heath

1997
1996
1996
City Hall

as Leslie Christos

1993
NYPD Blue

as Lillian Fancy

1993
seaQuest DSV

as Laura

1993
Rising Sun

as Lauren Smith

1990
Law & Order

as Caroline Bennett

1989
Bloodhounds of Broadway

as Cynthia Harris

1987
Wall Street

as Carolyn

1987
1956
As the World Turns

as Jessica Griffin