Christopher Meloni may have gotten all the headlines, but he wasn't the only familiar face missing from the squad room when Law & Order: SVU returned for Season 13. Two weeks after B.D. Wong reprised his role as Special Agent George Huang, it's former series regular Tamara Tunie's turn.
VIDEO: Law & Order: SVU's Mariska Hargitay wants Benson to find lasting love!
In Wednesday's episode (10/9c on NBC), M.E. Warner (Tunie) works with Benson (Mariska Hargitay) once again. However, Warner...
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit's Tamara Tunie is returning to daytime.
The actress, who plays medical examiner Melinda Warner on SVU, has nabbed a recurring role on Days of Our Lives, TVLine reports. Tunie will play Weston, a tough judge who will make ...
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is moving its production out of New Jersey after the state suspended certain tax incentives, a source close to the production tells TVGuide.com.
NBC cancels Law & Order, picks up SVU and Law & Order: Los Angeles
SVU, which formerly made NBC's Central Archives in North Bergen, N.J., its home, is looking to relocate to...
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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
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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.
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