Tamara Tunie

Tamara Tunie is the kind of performer I trust on sight. Twenty-one years as medical examiner Melinda Warner on Law & Order: SVU made her a fixture of procedural television, yet she never let the role calcify; her Warner stayed precise, humane, and quietly authoritative. Add a long run as attorney Jessica Griffin on As the World Turns, plus work as a singer, director, and producer, and you see Carnegie Mellon training applied with real discipline. Coming from McKeesport, a Pennsylvania steel town, she carries an unshowy steel of her own. Character actors like her are the load-bearing walls of television, and she deserves far more recognition.

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Name (English)

Tamara Tunie

Name (Japanese)

タマラ・チュニー

Reading

たまら・ちゅにー

Born

March 14, 1959 (age 67)

Origin

McKeesport, Pennsylvania, United States

Occupation

actor / television actor / film actor / film director

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Boar

University

Carnegie Mellon University

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara%20Tunie
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q299689

Tags

• Pennsylvania
• actor
• television actor
• film actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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