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Tamara Tunie
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Characters
Melinda Warner
Caroline Bennett
Date of birth
March 14, 1959
Place of birth
McKeesport, Pennsylvania
IMDb profile

Tamara Renee Tunie is an actress who is known for her portrayal of Medical Examiner Melinda Warner on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. She made a cameo appearance in the Law & Order: Trial by Jury episode "Day", in the Law & Order: Organized Crime episode "Deliver Us From Evil" and in the Chicago Fire episode "We Called Her Jellybean" (through the use of an edited flashback from the SVU episode "Soulless").

Tunie made her first guest appearance as Warner in the second season episode "Noncompliance", and continued to make guest appearances until Season 7, when she became a regular cast member. She departed the main cast after the twelfth season but continued to make guest and recurring appearances from the thirteenth season on.

In 1996, she played Caroline Bennett in the Law & Order Season 7 episode "Deadbeat".

Tunie has also won a Tony Award, for co-producing the award winning musical Spring Awakening.

Tunie is also famous for playing lawyer Jessica Griffin McKechnie Harris on the soap opera As the World Turns. She played the role originally from 1986 to 1995, and again from 1999 to 2007.

Trivia[]

  • Graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1981.
  • Was married to Greg Bouqette from 1988 to 1991; married to Gregory Generet since October 1995.
  • Received a Tony Award as a co-producer for the musical Spring Awakening.


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