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Tamara Tunie: Biography

Tamara Tunie
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  • Birth Place: McKeesport, PA
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 03/14/1959, Pisces
  • Profession: Actor
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Tamara Tunie: TV Guide News

  • L&O: SVU's Tamara Tunie Sees Dead People | Today's News: Our Take | 10/2/2007
    A month 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 You 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 by doing women's hair. I've been around dead people — it's not a big deal." Though many of her scenes take place around the victims of gruesome crimes, it never gives her the chills. "I certainly had been in a morgue before, so that wasn't new. I've been seeing read more
  • SVU Vet Makes Directing Debut, and More Movie News | Today's News: Our Take | 8/6/2007
    Law & Order: SVU's Tamara Tunie will make her feature-film directing debut with See You in September, an indie romcom starring Justin Kirk (Weeds), Estella Warren (my occasional dream) and David Eigenberg (Sex and the City).... Also per Variety, Disney has big-screen dibs on the Brit lit hit The Dangerous Book for Boys (shop Amazon.com).... Jane Leeves (Frasier), Caitlin Wachs (Commander in Chief) and Colton James (7th Heaven) are among the cast for Endless Bummer, a 1984-set teen comedy. read more
  • Hope your time off went well. ... | Today's News: Our Take | 12/7/2005

    Question: Hope your time off went well. Can you give us some Law & Order: SVU scoop please?


    Answer: Neal Baer says an upcoming episode "will revisit Benson's past again. She will reveal to a victim something that she's never [told anyone] before. It [concerns] her mother." Also in early '06, Tamara Tunie's medical examiner will get out of the morgue long enough to play detective alongside Chris Meloni's Stabler, and Lost's Malcolm David Kelley will guest-star in an episode that also marks the return of Annie Potts. Lastly, Baer says Benson and Stabler "will have a story where they take stock of their seven years together." These two need to stop taking stock and start getting a room.

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Law and Order Special Victims Unit, Law Order SVU, Tamara Tunie courtesy Will Hart/NBC Photo
Law and Order Special Victims Unit, Law Order SVU, Tamara Tunie, Michaela McManus courtesy Nicole Rivelli/NBC Photo
Law Order SVU, Law Order Special Victims Unit, Tamara Tunie courtesy Will Hart/NBC Photo
Law Order SVU, Law Order Special Victims Unit, Tamara Tunie, Mariska Hargitay, Christopher Meloni courtesy Eric Liebowitz/NBC Photo
As The World Turns, Tamara Tunie courtesy Cliff Lipson/CBS
Mariska Hargitay, Dann Florek, Diane Neal, Bd Wong, Chris meloni, Ice T, Tamara Tuni, Richard belzer, Law Order Special Victims Unit courtesy Virginia Sherwood/NBC Universal

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Tamara Tunie: Credits

Title Year Type
The Caveman's Valentine (Actor - Sheila) 2001 Movie
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (Actor - M.E. Melanie Warner) 1999 TV Show Series
Snake Eyes (Actor - Anthea) 1998 Movie
Eve's Bayou (Actor - Narrator) 1997 Movie
Rebound: The Legend Of Earl "The Goat" Manigault (Actor - Miss Marcus) 1997 Movie

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