Tawny Cypress (born August 8, 1976) is an American actress. She has appeared in various television and stage plays. She portrayed Simone Deveaux on the TV series Heroes. She previously starred on Fox's drama K-Ville as Ginger "Love Tap" LeBeau, a police officer who suffers the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Her father is of Hungarian and German extraction and her mother is of African-American and Native American ancestry. Cypress was born and raised in Point Pleasant, New Jersey and now lives in New York City. Her older brother Toby Cypress is a comic book artist.

Filmography

• The Jennifer Hudson Show
• Yellowjackets — Taissa Turner
• Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector — Naia
• 2019Inez & Doug & Kira — Inez
• The Code — Edina Corpus
• FBI — Jillian Starls
• The Blacklist: Redemption — Nez Rowan
• Billions — Dean Walker
• Bull — Brooke Ford
• Supergirl — Senator Miranda Crane
• 2014Gun Hill — Andrea Login
• 2013Home — Laura
• House of Cards — Carly Heath
• The Blacklist — Nez Rowan
• Elementary — Black Suit
• 2011Remains — Cindy
• Unforgettable — Cherie Rollins-Murray
• Blue Bloods — Patrice
• 2010Brooklyn's Finest — Allisa
• The Good Wife — Melinda
• Warehouse 13 — Romana
• Army Wives — Brenda
• K-Ville — Ginger 'Love Tap' LeBeau
• 2006Bella — Frannie
• Heroes — Simone Deveaux
• 2006The Time Tunnel — J.D.
• 2006World Trade Center — Bleeding Woman
• Jonny Zero — Nina Calvo
• Rescue Me — Carla
• Hack — Anna Rowe
• 2002Stalker Guilt Syndrome — Female Passerby
• 100 Centre Street — Cassandra Rodriguez
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Louisa Iberra
• 2000Autumn in New York — Melissa
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Shauna
• Third Watch — Sharon Burns
• Law & Order — Erin Grassley

Appearances as themselves (1)

• Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror — Self