1. Tamara Tunie was born on March 14,1959 and is an American film, stage, and television actress, director, and producer.
19 Facts About Tamara Tunie
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Tamara Tunie sang in her church choir, was in the high school band, took dance lessons in the steel-mill town.
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Tamara Tunie earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical theater from Carnegie Mellon University in 1981.
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Tamara Tunie was elected to the university's Board of Trustees in 2020.
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Tamara Tunie made her Broadway debut alongside Lena Horne in Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music in 1981.
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Tamara Tunie reprised the role from 1999 to 2007, receiving NAACP Image Awards nominations for Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series in 2003 and 2004.
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Tamara Tunie had a recurring role as Lillian Fancy in the ABC police drama NYPD Blue from 1994 to 1997.
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Tamara Tunie has had supporting roles in a number of movies.
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Tamara Tunie made her film debut in Sweet Lorraine opposite Maureen Stapleton and later appeared in Wall Street.
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Tamara Tunie worked twice with Al Pacino; she portrayed his press secretary in the film City Hall and the possessed wife of a partner in his law firm in the film The Devil's Advocate.
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Tamara Tunie made her debut as Warner in the second season episode titled "Noncompliance" and continued to make recurring appearances until Season 7, when she became a regular cast member.
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Tamara Tunie was regular on SVU from Season 7 to 12 and later made recurring appearances to Season 17.
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Tamara Tunie later appeared in episodes in 2018 and 2019.
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In 2002, Tamara Tunie played Alberta Green in the first season of the Fox thriller series 24.
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Tamara Tunie won a Tony Award in 2007 for the production of the Broadway musical Spring Awakening; she has won a Drama Desk Award.
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From 2016 to 2018, Tamara Tunie had a recurring role as Monica Graham in the CBS police drama series Blue Bloods.
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Tamara Tunie played Gugu Mbatha-Raw's mother in the 2018 romantic comedy-drama film Irreplaceable You.
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In 2024, Tamara Tunie joined the cast of Beyond the Gates as family matriarch, Anita Dupree.
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Tamara Tunie was married to Greg Bouquett from 1988 to 1991.