Tamara at Cicely L. Tyson Community School of Performing & Fine Arts Grand Unveling

While she enjoys doing double duty on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Medical Examiner Dr. Warner, As The World Turns' Tamara Tunie (Jessica) admits to having some initial difficulty adjusting to SVU's dark subject matter. "Oh Lord have mercy...I guess it's a little easier now," says Tunie. "When I was first doing the show, I found the lines difficult to learn. I was like, 'What is this?' because I was used to glancing at something and it was in my head, especially having worked on a soap, which is the fastest work in the world. So then I was having a conversation with a friend of...

Tamara Tunie has been successful on Broadway on TV and on the big screen. And she’s happily married and gorgeous. What’s her secret? We talked to her to find out.

What the best thing about life once you get past the 30s?

Life is great! Across the board, my life is just really full and really great. I’ve learned a lot of lessons. I’ve accumulated some wisdom, and I’m in a situation where I can really help my family, not just financially but emotionally. I have 10 nieces and nephews who I’m close to. I can help them along which is a great position to be in.
You’re obviously a very...

Tamara Tunie, celebrated actress and artistic performer of daytime and prime time television, Broadway productions and the world of moviedom, was the featured speaker at the Harmony Club of Homestead’s annual scholarship luncheon held at the Westwood Country Club in West Mifflin.

Raised in the small town of Homestead, Tunie was born into an extremely close-knit family, raised with love, discipline and compassion. The open door policy of the family home made for long-lasting friendships and an environment with lots of laughter. Lessons instilled in her at a young age continue to be the...

A veteran of the mayhem depicted on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” Tamara Tunie is in her 10th season portraying Dr. Melinda Warner, a wryly intelligent medical examiner with a dark sense of humor. Typecasting, she says. Ms. Tunie, 50, appeared in the Broadway revival of “Julius Caesar” with Denzel Washington and recently produced and directed her first independent feature film, “See You in September.” In her foray into soap opera, she was Jessica Griffin on “As the World Turns.” She lives in an 1893 brownstone in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan...

Actor Tamara Tunie calls herself an "East Coast girl," and she’s had a steady career of “quality work” to keep her in New York. She spent two decades playing Jessica Griffin on As the World Turns and now appears regularly on Law & Order: SVU as Dr. Melinda Warner. A Harlem resident since 1983, Tunie had plenty to say about gentrification, and her husband’s cooking, in this week’s New York Diet.

Saturday, December 6
I love hot cereal, all kinds. So Saturday morning I had some oatmeal, and what I do is sauté some apples in a little butter and a little cinnamon and nutmeg and then...