Tamara Tunie Biography
Tamara Tunie is an American television, stage, film actress, producer, and director. Her role as attorney Jessica Griffin on the CBS soap opera, As The World, Turns brought her into the limelight. In addition, she is famous in the NBC police drama Law & Order: Special victims unit for her role as medical examiner Melinda Warner.
Tamara Tunie Age|Birthday
Tunie was born on March 14, 1959. Therefore, she is 62 years old as of 2021 and celebrates her birthday on 14th March every year.
Tamara Tunie Height|Weight
Tunie’s height is 5 feet 9 inches (approximately 175 centimeters). Moreover, she weighs 62 kilograms.
Tamara Tunie Family
Tunie was born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania to her parents James W. (father) and Evelyn (nee Hawkins, mother). Moreover, she has four siblings, three sisters and a brother.
Tamara Tunie Husband
Tunie was married to Greg Bouquett from 1988 to 1991, for two years. However, she has been married for almost 20 years from 1995 to 2018 to jazz musician Gregory Generet.
Tamara Tunie Education
Tunie graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre. Moreover, in the early 1970s, she was a contestant in the Miss Black Teenage Pageant in Pittsburgh.
Tamara Tunie Career
As the World Turns
Alongside Lena Horne in The Lady and Her Music in 1981, Tunie made her Broadway debut. She played Jessica Griffin in the CBS daytime soap opera, As The World Turns her start from 1987 to 1995. Moreover, she received NAACPImage Awards nominations for Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series in 2003 and 2004 with her reprised the role from 2000 to 2007. Swift Justice, Law & Order, Chicago Hope, New York Undercover, and Sex and the City are primetime dramas she guest-starred in. In the ABC police drama NYPD Blue, her role was recurring as Lilian Fancy from 1994 to 1997.
Sweet Lorraine
She made her film debut in Sweet Lorraine. In a number of movies, she had supporting roles. Later in 1987, she appeared on Wall Street. In 1996, she portrayed Al Pacino’s wife press secretary in the film, City Hall. Also, in 1997, she portrayed the possessed wife of a partner in Al Pacino’s law firm in the film The Devil’s Advocate. Snake Eyes (1998), The Peacemaker (1997) are some of her other credits. Her other credits include Eve’s Bayou (1997), Rising Sun (1993), and Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989). For her role in the film Caveman’s Valentine, she received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Awards 2001.
Law & Order
As medical examiner Melinda Warner, she joined the cast of the NBC police procedural series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2000. In the second season episode entitled, Noncompliance, she made her debut as Warner. She made recurring appearances until season 7 when she became a regular cast member.
In the first season of the Fox thriller series 24 in 2004, she played Alberta Green. With the romantic comedy film See You in September 2010, she made her directing debut. She returned to film in 2012 in the film, Roberts Zemeckis playing Margaret Thomason. She was a regular cast member in the Sundance TV drama series The Red Road from 2014 to 2015.
Awards
Furthermore, she won a Tony Award for the production of the Broadway musical Spring Awakening in 2007. Also, she won a Drama Desk Award. Additionally, under the category of Distinguished Performance in Familiar, she won an Obie Award in 2016.
In the CBS police drama series Blue Bloods, she had a recurring role as Monica Graham from 2016 to 2018. In addition, she was a regular cast member in two series. The first was in the ABC comedy-drama Dietland and the second was the BBC Two/Netflix in 2018. In the latter, she played US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Eunice Clayton.
The Good Wife, Survivor’s Remorse, Better Call Saul, and Almost Family are her other television credits. In the 2018 romantic comedy-drama film Irreplaceable, she played Gugu Mbatah-Raw’s mother.
Tamara Tunie Net Worth
Tunie’s net worth is $8milion.
