Beautiful, talented, multi-tasketed are just a few key traits that describe Tamara Tunie.

Tunie’s successful acting career has allowed her to perform in many mediums. On the big screen, she was featured in Snake Eyes, City Hall and The Devil’s Advocate. Other film credits include The Peacemaker, Rising Sun, Rescuing Desire, Rebound: The Legend of Earl ‘The Goat’ Manigault, Spirit Lost, Bloodhounds of Broadway, Wall Street and Sweet Lorraine. Additionally, Tamara gave voice to the narrator in Kasi Lemmon’s Eve’s Bayou and appears in the director’s film, The Caveman’s Valentine, for which she received an Independent Spirits Award Best Supporting Actress nomination.

On the small screen, Tamara has guest-starred on numerous television series, such as Sex and the City, New York Undercover, Chicago Hope, Prince Street, Law & Order, Swift Justice, Sea Quest DSV, as well as playing a recurring character on the short-lived series, Feds and Tribeca. For several seasons, she portrayed the wife of James McDaniel’s Lt. Fancy on the police drama, NYPD Blue, and she also plays the role of a medical examiner on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

On Broadway, she has shared the stage with the legendary Lena Horne in the musical, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, and starred in David Merrick’s revival of Oh, Kay! Tunie toured Europe with Bubblin’ Brown Sugar and portrayed Helen of Troy in the New York Shakespeare Festival’s production of Troilus and Cressida in Central Park. She also portrayed Maggie the Cat in the first all African-American production of Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at TheatreVirginia. She has also performed in the Dreamgirls 20th anniversary benefit concert as well as in Tartuffe at the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival.

Tamara Tunie received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Carnegie-Mellon University. Born in Philadelphia, PA, Tamara and her husband, jazz vocalist/editor Gregory Generet, reside in Harlem. Her birthday is March 14 - Taurus :)