Tamara discusses Miracle on Madison Shopping Event in Citybuzz

Tunie plays a spurned woman in sexy play at Drew
Friday, July 01, 2005
BY PETER FILICHIA
Star-Ledger Staff

In more than one way, Tamara Tunie is getting ready for a hot experience at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in Madison.
Beginning Tuesday, Tunie will play a three-week engagement as La Marquise de Merteuil in "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," Christopher Hampton's 1987 adaptation of Choderlos De Laclos' novel, which was a Parisian potboiler in 1782.

"It's a very hot play," Tunie says, flashing a perfect smile that sets off her wonderfully high cheekbones. "Very hot," she adds, fanning...

It's been more than 30 years since "One Life to Live's" Ed and Carla Hall reigned supreme among a handful of black characters on daytime television. Today, the soap opera landscape is slightly better.

Two black actors with Pittsburgh ties are heating up the small screen opposite each other in one of the raciest daytime acquaintance-rape story lines since Luke raped Laura on "General Hospital."

Homestead native and Carnegie Mellon University graduate Tamara Tunie plays the smart, sultry, former district attorney Jessica Griffin on CBS's "As the World Turns."

Pittsburgh-born and Duquesne University-educated...

Christine Squitieri and the graphic artists at North Shore Animal League of America did a great job with the shoot we did with Law & Order SVU's Tamara Tunie! I mention the details of the shoot further down on this blog. It was a heck of a day, last February, with a not-so-nice snowstorm to hold us up, but not stop us.


Tamara posed with several dogs from the NSALA kennel that day, joining the ranks of other celebrities that participated to help remind pet owners that spaying or neutering their dogs and cats can significantly reduce the number of animals that end up in shelters across the...