
Tamara Tunie
Department: 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.
Known For

The Devil's Advocate
1997

Wall Street
1987

The Peacemaker
1997

Snake Eyes
1998

The Caveman's Valentine
2001

Nefertiti: Resurrected
2003

Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989

Rescuing Desire
1996

Preserving Democracy: Pursuing a More Perfect Union
2022

Class of Her Own
2024

Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
2022

Flight
2012

Showing Up
2014

Sweet Lorraine
1987

Fall to Rise
2014

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
1996

Eve's Bayou
1997

Rising Sun
1993

Irreplaceable You
2018

City Hall
1996

Her Only Choice
2018

BOSS: The Black Experience in Business
2019

Bad Vegan and the Teleportation Machine
2016

Ghost Bike
2021

Circle of Deception
2021

The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU
2020

A Journal for Jordan
2021

Elio
2025

Looking Through Water
2025

Captain Blackout
2014

The Tony Danza Show
2004

Spenser: For Hire
1985

24
2001

New York Undercover
1994

Chicago Hope
1994

I Love the '90s: Part Deux
2005

Emergence
2019

The Wendy Williams Show
2008

Trinity
1998

Zoo
2015

See
2019

Golden Boy
2013

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999

Cowboy Bebop
2021

Sex and the City
1998

The Good Wife
2009

Billions
2016

Chicago Fire
2012

Better Call Saul
2015

Blue Bloods
2010

As the World Turns
1956

seaQuest DSV
1993

Law & Order
1990

Dietland
2018

Law & Order: Trial by Jury
2005

Black Earth Rising
2018

Law & Order: Organized Crime
2021

The Red Road
2014

Elementary
2012

Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler
2018

Almost Family
2019

Alpha House
2013

Harlem
2021

Beyond the Gates
2025

NYPD Blue
1993

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015

Sherri
2022

Law & Order: Organized Crime
2021

Prince Street
1997

Swift Justice
1996