Tamara Tunie Net Worth

Tamara Tunie's Quotes

• Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
• When I first got to New York, all I did was musicals. After a few years I had to make a conscious choice to close the door on musicals, because I was getting pigeon-holed as a musical theater performer.
• I have Native-American blood, I have European blood, I have African blood.
• I always watch the work I do.

Interesting Facts about Tamara Tunie

1. Graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1981 [1981]
2. When she was portraying the character of 'Jessica Griffin' on the daytime drama As the World Turns (1956), one of her mentors, actress/director/drama coach Billie Allen, portrayed her character's mother 'Louise' (1994).
3. After five years of portraying Medical Examiner Melinda Warner on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), she was finally given main cast billing in the seventh season. (2005)
4. Shares a birthday with Michael Caine, Mercedes McNab, Kylie Tyndall, Keaton Tyndall, Quincy Jones, Chris Klein, & Jamie Bell
5. Her father still operates the family business, a funeral home, in a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
6. In 2007, she received a Tony Award as co-producer for the musical "Spring Awakening". She was also a Tony Award nominee (Best Play) for co-producing August Wilson's Radio Golf.
7. Is a rabid Pittsburgh Steelers fan.
8. Serves on the board of directors of Figure Skating in Harlem, Inc., a nonprofit organization that works with young girls in the community.
9. Has worked with several charitable organizations and theater companies, including Hearts of Gold and Harlem Stage/The Gatehouse.
10. Was a contestant in the Miss Black Teenage Pageant in Pittsburgh in the early 1970s.
11. Her paternal great-grandmother was full blooded Indian.
12. Parents: James W Tunie, Evelyn Hawkins Tunie.
13. Has 3 sisters and 1 brother.
14. In 2002, performed in 3 shows simultaneously, As the World Turns, Law & Order Special Victims Unit and 24.
15. On one occasion, she worked on three shows in a 24-hour period: First the play Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington, then to work on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, then to work on the soap opera As the World Turns. After that, she performed in the matinee and evening performances of Julius Caesar. (The Mo'Nique Show).
16. Has a french bulldog named Spraga, with husband Gregory Generet.
17. Is a singer; her range is mezzo-soprano.
18. Made her Broadway debut alongside Lena Horne in Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music.
19. Both her parents were morticians; the family lived above the funeral parlor.
20. Was in the first all African-American production of Tennessee Williams's play "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," produced at the Virgínia State Theatre.