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posted by ILuvMEWarner
With the 最近的 announcement that Tamara Tunie will be leaving As the World Turns, I thought this was a good time to revisit her first Soap Opera Digest interview from 1990 in this week's Blast from the Past!

No one will ever accuse Tamara Tunie Bouquett of wasting her potential. Unlike many 女演员 who believe their careers lie in the hands of Fate, this willowy actress has the guts and the confidence to shape her own career instead of having it structured for her. She is a direct, outspoken and practical woman who, upon graduation from Carnegie-Mellon University, took a dispassionate assessment...
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Tamara Tunie Jessica Harris, As the World Turns

Tamara Tunie is the hardest-working actress in New York City. As expecting attorney Jessica Harris on As the World Turns, she's front burner in a naughty 爱情 quintet. She's already filmed several episodes as Dr. Melinda Warner for the upcoming season of Law & Order: SVU. And Tunie just got back from hosting duties at Film Life's 8th Annual American Black Film Festival. But that didn't stop her from dialing up TV Guide Online to give the 411 on her packed schedule. 151 Delaina Dixon

Girl, 你 are one hard-working actress.

A friend of mine said,...
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 Actor, Director, and Producer Tamara Tunie
Actor, Director, and Producer Tamara Tunie
Recently, I had a chance to sit down with gifted actress Tamara Tunie. 你 may know Tamara from her role as Dr. Melinda Warner on “Law and Order: SVU,” but what 你 may not know is that Ms. Tunie is also a budding director and producer. Recently she directed and produced her first feature, See 你 In September, and has even made a name for herself as a producer on Broadway, with several successful projects under her belt. Tamara was kind enough to give us some insight on how she’s gotten to where she is today.

JM: Already an accomplished actress, you've recently branched out into producing...
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 Tamara Tunie will play three small roles, including the countess of Rossillion, in the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's production of "All's Well That Ends Well." Here the countess banters with her clown Lavatch, played 由 John Ahlin.
Tamara Tunie will play three small roles, including the countess of Rossillion, in the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's production of "All's Well That Ends Well." Here the countess banters with her clown Lavatch, played by John Ahlin.
She was already a producer, a director and a coroner before she decided to become a duchess, a counselor and a widow.


But that’s Tamara Tunie for you. No matter how much she’s doing, she’s always up for doing more.

“People always assume that I don’t need much sleep,” she says, while on a rehearsal break at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. “I actually do; I just get a lot of deferred sleep in big clumps of time.”

But where does she find those clumps? In June, Tunie finished directing “See 你 in September,” a romantic film scheduled for release 下一个 year. Says Tunie:...
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Actress Tamara Tunie has been appearing on NBC's 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit' for the last six years, but now her character is 'totally busting out,' as she likes to say. In fact, this season they made her a series regular. 'We're learning all kinds of things about her that we never knew before. I don't feel as isolated in the morgue anymore,' she notes of her medical examiner character, Dr. Melinda Warner. The only downfall is the hours. 'I 说 to Chris [Meloni] and Mariska [Hargitay], 'I don't know how 你 do it,' because it's exhausting on a whole other level, but at the same...
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 Actress Tamara Tunie shows off her winning smile 下一个 to The Daily News parade float.
Actress Tamara Tunie shows off her winning smile next to The Daily News parade float.
Actress Tamara Tunie, best known for playing a no-nonsense medical examiner "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," rarely smiles in that grim role.

But there she was Monday, beaming in the bright sunshine and gracing The Daily News float at the Columbus 日 Parade.

"It's so exciting to be here," 说 Tunie as excited 粉丝 snapped her photo.

Never mind that Tunie's as Italian as corned beef and cabbage.

"I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day, I'm Italian on Columbus Day, I'm a New Yorker every day," Tunie 说 as she waited for the parade to begin.

Tunie, 51, had already made her mark on Broadway and...
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posted by ILuvMEWarner
'I grew up in a funeral 首页 so I've been around dead people my entire life. Being in a morgue was nothing new to me," notes Tamara Tunie, who plays medical examiner Dr. Melinda Warner, on 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.' The daughter of an undertaker adds, 'Let's just say I'm very respectful and careful with my corpses.'
Though most actors find the medical dialogue to be difficult, Tunie embraces the challenge. 'I actually really enjoy the challenge of saying all of those medical terms. It keeps me on my toes and it makes me aware that my brain is still valuable.' Her character certainly has a lot 更多 to say since being bumped up to the status of series regular. 'I thought, 'It's about time!' she says with a laugh. Tunie worked on the 显示 for six years as a guest star. She says her costars are happy for her. In fact, she relates, once when she inadvertently took one of Chris Meloni's lines, he started teasing her 由 calling her 'Ms. Series Regular.'
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Times are tough for legal eagle Jessica Griffin. Daughter Bonnie is gone, and she took Jessica's foster child, Sarah, with her. Now, Jessica is trying to conceive a child with new husband, Ben, but that process isn't going quick enough for Ms. Griffin's Type-A personality's taste. And then there's her best friend, Margo, making eyes at that obnoxious Doc Reese. Poor Jessica! Just what is she thinking these days? Only actress Tamara Tunie knows for sure! And she isn't shy about telling the
SoapCity audience!

SoapCityAlina: So what's with Jessica's sudden baby hunger?

Tamara Tunie (Jessica): Jessica...
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posted by ILuvMEWarner
Tuesday, February 18, 2003
Tamara Tunie

Jessica Griffin, As the World Turns
Tamara Tunie's (Jessica) work ethic would leave most people wanting to bury their heads under their blankets. When she's not shooting her front burner 爱情 三角形, 三角 between Ben and Marshall on As the World Turns, she's helping to solve crimes on Law and Order: SVU.

Add to that theater performances — Tunie appeared in a benefit performance of DreamGirls in 2001, and films — she received a Best Supporting Actress nomination from the Independent Spirit Awards for The Cavemen's Valentine in 2002. It's a wonder that Tunie...
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posted by ILuvMEWarner
To those of us who still remember Pittsburgh in its steel production heyday, the Homestead Waterfront’s 12 smoke stacks are not merely a powerful testament of our industrial past, but also a salute to the bright resourcefulness that change can bring about. Nowhere is this view 更多 optimum 或者 appreciated than from the houses nestled just above Eighth Avenue in Homestead. Just ask actress and Pittsburgh native Tamara Tunie. Although she was born in McKeesport, Tamara lived with her family in Homestead during her college years, and it is this place that she holds close to her 心 as her true...
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Tunie plays a spurned woman in sexy play at Drew
Friday, July 01, 2005
BY PETER FILICHIA
Star-Ledger Staff

In 更多 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...
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 Lamman Rucker, left, and Tamara Tunie are involved in a story line on the daytime drama "As the World Turns" in which Tunie's character, Jessica, accuses her former lover, Marshall, of raping her.
Lamman Rucker, left, and Tamara Tunie are involved in a story line on the daytime drama "As the World Turns" in which Tunie's character, Jessica, accuses her former lover, Marshall, of raping her.
It's been 更多 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 大学 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...
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posted by ILuvMEWarner
Christine Squitieri and the graphic artists at North 支撑, 海岸 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 狗 from the NSALA kennel that day, joining the ranks of other 名人 that participated to help remind pet owners that spaying 或者 neutering their 狗 and 猫 can significantly reduce the number of 动物 that end up in shelters across the...
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posted by ILuvMEWarner
"Tune in Tamara: After playing Jessica for eight years, Tamara Tunie left the 显示 in 1995. But the actress's 最近的 return to the familiar set was almost like stepping into a time machine. 'It was surreal on some level because it will be five years in January since I left the show. I went into rehearsal and I was with Scott Holmes [Tom], Benjamin Hendrickson [Hal] and Ellen Dolan [Margo], and Dan Hamilton is directing and Vivian Gundaker is producing, and it's like I never left,' she says. 'There were completely familiar faces, and it's not like the character of Jessica was gone, so they didn't say, 'Welcome back,' 或者 'How was your trip?' [in the scenes],' notes Tunie, who was replaced 由 JoAnna Rhinehart while she was away. 'I just walked into the police station and started talking like the last time they saw me was yesterday. So it's like five years of my life vanished!'"
posted by ILuvMEWarner
Published: Sunday, September 11, 1988

Tamara Renee Tunie, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Tunie of Homestead, Pa., was married in Pittsburgh yesterday to Gregory T. Bouquett, the son of Dr. and Mrs. Gaston Bouquett of Dayton, Ohio. The Rev. Gerald Chapman, a Baptist minister, officiated in the Heinz Memorial Chapel at the 大学 of Pittsburgh. Mrs. Tunie-Bouquett, who graduated from Carnegie Mellon University, is a 电视 and stage actress. Mr. Bouquett, the owner of the Uptown Atlanta Nightclub, graduated from Wright State University.
 Tamara Tunie, Law & Order: SVU
Tamara Tunie, Law & Order: SVU
A 月 before the new season of Law & Order: SVU (premiering tonight at 10 pm/ET, NBC) began, TVGuide.com caught up with Tamara Tunie, who plays unflappable medical examiner Melinda Warner. On the set of her directorial debut, See 你 in September, which is slated for a 2008 release, Tunie talked about her "day job" over breakfast.

Dealing with the deceased has never been a problem for Tunie, who was raised outside of Pittsburgh, where her father was an undertaker, so Tunie "grew up in a funeral home." "As a young adult," she says, "I helped my father 由 doing women's hair. I've been around...
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Anticipation for Sundance's new drama The Red Road is high. The drama featured Lisa Bonet as a lawyer returning to her hometown to investigate a terrible tragedy committed against a member of her Native American tribe. Law & Order veteran Tamara Tunie (pictured) plays Marie 面包车, 范 Der Veen, a leader in the local Lenape tribe and sister to the chief who must deal with the 最近的 return of her son Phillip Kopus, a dangerous member of the tribe.

The Red Road is slated for an February 2014 premiere.
NYC LIFE GOES BACK IN TIME WITH TAMARA TUNIE PRESENTS CITY CLASSICS

Series Airs Fridays at 8:30pm on NYC life



September 16, 2011 - Tamara Tunie Presents City Classics – airing Fridays on NYC life – draws from newly uncovered footage deep within the City’s film archives, featuring clips that 日期 back from the 1940s to 1970s. Hosted 由 a true New Yorker, actor, producer, director Tamara Tunie (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), each episode offers an exciting glimpse into the City’s past, revealing the compelling, humorous and extraordinary stories that have shaped New York City....
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posted by ILuvMEWarner
电视 and stage actress Tamara Tunie was the captain of her high school 篮球 and 排球 teams, although her current team activities are limited to the Broadway softball circuit -- she played for the "Julius Caesar" squad this summer. Away from the softball diamond, Tunie -- who portrays medical examiner Melinda Warner on "Law and Order: SVU," which premieres tomorrow night on NBC -- gets her sports kicks from the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Why the Steelers?

Once a Steelers 粉丝 always a Steelers fan, what can I tell you? I grew up in Pittsburgh. I was a kid when the Steelers were really...
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posted by ILuvMEWarner
Tamara Tunie's Marriage Makes Soap HistoryTHE BRIDE WORE WHITE, BUT OTHERWISE the color scheme at the Aug. 24 wedding of attorney Jessica Griffin and newspaper editor Duncan McKechnie on CBS's As the World Turns was unconventionally mixed. This was the first interracial marriage in the soap's 36-year run.

That historic stroll down the aisle has propelled actress Tamara Tunie, 33, who plays Jessica, to a prominent—and controversial—role. Though 粉丝 response has been, she says, "overwhelmingly positive," there was a flurry of negative letters the first time Tunie and Michael 天鹅 (Duncan)...
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