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

• Beyond the Gates — Anita Dupree
• 2025Elio — Colonel Markwell (voice)
• 2025Looking Through Water — Miss Reno
• 2024Class of Her Own — Narrator (voice)
• 2022Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody — Cissy Houston
• 2021A Journal for Jordan — Penny Canedy
• 2021Circle of Deception — Detective Williams
• Cowboy Bebop — Ana
• 2021Ghost Bike — Fran
• Harlem — Regina Walker
• Law & Order: Organized Crime — Melinda Warner
• 2020The Passing On — Executive Producer
• Almost Family — Genevieve
• 2019BOSS: The Black Experience in Business — Narrator
• Emergence — Maria Wilkis
• See — Nevla, The Bank
• Black Earth Rising — Eunice Clayton
• Dietland — Julia
• 2018Her Only Choice — Brenda
• 2018Irreplaceable You — Jane
• 2016Bad Vegan and the Teleportation Machine — Josephine Bodder
• Billions — Amelia
• Better Call Saul — Anita
• Zoo — Brenda Montgomery
• 2014Captain Blackout — Jessica Winters
• 2014Fall to Rise — Annika
• The Red Road — Marie Van Der Veen
• Alpha House — Eve Simone-Lewis
• Golden Boy — Mrs. Nevel
• Chicago Fire — Melinda Warner
• Elementary — Lily Cooper
• 2012Flight — Margaret Thomason
• Blue Bloods — Monica Graham
• 2010See You in September — Director, Producer
• The Good Wife — Serafina Norvy
• The Wendy Williams Show
• I Love the '90s: Part Deux
• Law & Order: Trial by Jury — Melinda Warner
• 2003Nefertiti: Resurrected — Narrator
• 24 — Alberta Green
• 2001The Caveman's Valentine — Sheila
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Melinda Warner
• Sex and the City — Eileen
• 1998Snake Eyes — Anthea
• Trinity
• 1997Eve's Bayou — Narrator (voice)
• Prince Street — Sharon
• 1997The Devil's Advocate — Jackie Heath
• 1997The Peacemaker — Jody
• 1996City Hall — Leslie Christos
• 1996Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault — Miss Marcus
• 1996Rescuing Desire — Van
• Swift Justice — Jessie McKenna
• Chicago Hope — Lennie Gaghan
• New York Undercover
• NYPD Blue — Lillian Fancy
• 1993Rising Sun — Lauren Smith
• seaQuest DSV — Laura
• Law & Order — Caroline Bennett
• 1989Bloodhounds of Broadway — Cynthia Harris
• 1987Sweet Lorraine — Julie
• 1987Wall Street — Carolyn
• Spenser: For Hire
• American Playhouse — Cynthia Harris
• As the World Turns — Jessica Griffin

Appearances as themselves (7)

• 2022Preserving Democracy: Pursuing a More Perfect Union — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Sherri — Self - Guest
• 2020The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU — Self
• Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• 2014Showing Up — Self
• The Tony Danza Show — Self - Guest