Television, film and stage actress Tamara Tunie can currently be seen on both daytime and primetime television. She plays district attorney Jessica Griffin on the CBS daytime drama As The World Turns , a role she has played since 1987, and, for the past three years, she has played Medical Examiner Warner on NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit . Last year Tunie played Alberta Green on Fox’s 24 and, for several seasons, she portrayed the wife of James McDaniel's Lt. Fancy on ABC’s NYPD Blue. Among her other television credits: Sex and the City ; New York Undercover ; Chicago Hope ; Prince Street ; Law & Order ; Swift Justice ; Sea Quest DSV ; Feds ; and Tribeca .

Tunie's successful acting career has also taken her to the big screen. She shared the screen twice with Al Pacino, first as his press secretary in City Hall , and then as the naughty neighbor in The Devil’s Advocate. She also had a featured role in the film Snake Eyes with Nicholas Cage. Her other film credits include: The Peacemaker ; Rising Sun ; Rescuing Desire ; Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault ; Spirit Lost ; Bloodhounds of Broadway ; Wall Street ; and Sweet Lorraine .

Additionally, Tunie gave voice to the narrator in Kasi Lemmon's film Eve's Bayou and she starred opposite Samuel L. Jackson in Lemmon’s The Caveman's Valentine , for which she received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress . On Broadway, she worked with the legendary Lena Horne in the musical Lena Horne:The Lady and Her Music , and starred in David Merrick's revival of Oh, Kay! Tunie’s other memorable stage credits include: the European tour of Bubblin' Brown Sugar ; Helen of Troy in the New York Shakespeare Festival's production of Troilus and Cressida ; "Maggie the Cat" in the first all African-American production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at Theatre Virginia; Dreamgirls’ 20th anniversary benefit concert; the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival’s Antony and Cleopatra and Tartuffe ; and most recently (Fall 2002) she starred in the off-Broadway musical Call The Children Home . Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Tunie received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Carnegie-Mellon University. She and her husband, jazz vocalist/editor Gregory Generet, reside in Harlem, where she is also on the Board of Directors for Figure Skating In Harlem, a non-profit arts and education organization that supports girls ages 6 – 16 in after school programs both on the ice and off.