Tamara Tunie
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She might not be a household name, but the statuesque character actress Tamara Tunie sports a resumé as distinctive as she is innately glamorous. Tunie landed her first major role as litigator Jessica Griffin McKechnie Harris on the soap opera As the World Turns in 1986 -- a part she played for 11 years. In the mean time, Tunie signed for a small role in the endearing yet sadly overlooked coming-of-age dramedy Sweet Lorraine (1987), an unsung predecessor to the box-office blockbuster Dirty Dancing, starring Maureen Stapleton and Trini Alvarado. Tunie signed for a bit part in the 1989 period murder mystery Bloodhounds of Broadway, but despite the fact that it claimed a pedigree as impressive as Lorraine (with Matt Dillon, Madonna, Jennifer Grey, and others), the movie unfortunately failed to deliver on its noble intentions. Over the course of the next several years, Tunie turned up several times on Steven Bochco's NYPD Blue, and landed the bit part of Leslie Christos in the Al Pacino big-city crime drama City Hall (1996), directed by Harold Becker (Taps). She re-teamed with Pacino for the darkly comic supernatural horror film The Devil's Advocate (1997), then worked with Brian De Palma and Nicolas Cage on the 1998 thriller Snake Eyes. Tunie's most high-profile work, however, was yet to come. In 2002, she delivered a compelling performance as Alberta Green in the first season of the series thriller 24. In 1999, the actress resumed her portrayal of Jessica Harris on As the World Turns and continued to sporatically return to the role through the 2000s. Beginning in 2000, Tunie also portrayed Melinda Warner on the popular series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | Boss: The Black Experience in Business |
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— | 2019 |
No Score Yet | Her Only Choice |
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— | 2018 |
No Score Yet | Fall To Rise |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | One Night Stand |
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— | 2013 |
77% | Flight |
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$89.5M | 2012 |
No Score Yet | See You in September |
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— | 2009 |
45% | The Caveman's Valentine |
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— | 2001 |
41% | Snake Eyes |
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— | 1998 |
63% | The Devil's Advocate |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | Spirit Lost |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | Rebound: The Legend of Earl the Goat Manigault |
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— | 1996 |
82% | Eve's Bayou |
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— | 1996 |
56% | City Hall |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Bloodhounds of Broadway |
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— | 1989 |
79% | Wall Street |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | Sweet Lorraine |
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— | 1987 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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78% |
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
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24% |
Almost Family
2019-2020
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79% |
Black Earth Rising
2018
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94% |
Emergence
2019-2020
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81% |
Dietland
2018
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No Score Yet |
Unapologetic With Aisha Tyler
2018
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No Score Yet |
Blue Bloods
2010
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95% |
Elementary
2012-2019
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No Score Yet |
Chicago Fire
2012
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No Score Yet |
The View
1997
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67% |
The Red Road
2014-2015
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58% |
Golden Boy
2013
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93% |
The Good Wife
2009-2016
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No Score Yet |
NCIS: Los Angeles
2009
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No Score Yet |
NCIS
2003
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No Score Yet |
The Wendy Williams Show
2008-2020
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87% |
24
2001-2014
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No Score Yet |
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001-2011
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No Score Yet |
Law & Order
1990-2010
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83% |
NYPD Blue
1993-2005
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No Score Yet |
New York Undercover
1994-1998
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