With the baru saja announcement that Tamara Tunie will be leaving As the World Turns, I thought this was a good time to revisit her first Soap Opera Digest interview from 1990 in this week's Blast from the Past!

No one will ever accuse Tamara Tunie Bouquett of wasting her potential. Unlike many aktris who believe their careers lie in the hands of Fate, this willowy actress has the guts and the confidence to shape her own career instead of having it structured for her. She is a direct, outspoken and practical woman who, upon graduation from Carnegie-Mellon University, took a dispassionate assessment...

Tamara Tunie Jessica Harris, As the World Turns

Tamara Tunie is the hardest-working actress in New York City. As expecting attorney Jessica Harris on As the World Turns, she's front burner in a naughty cinta quintet. She's already filmed several episodes as Dr. Melinda Warner for the upcoming season of Law & Order: SVU. And Tunie just got back from hosting duties at Film Life's 8th Annual American Black Film Festival. But that didn't stop her from dialing up TV Guide Online to give the 411 on her packed schedule. 151 Delaina Dixon

Girl, anda are one hard-working actress.

A friend of mine said,...

Recently, I had a chance to sit down with gifted actress Tamara Tunie. anda may know Tamara from her role as Dr. Melinda Warner on “Law and Order: SVU,” but what anda may not know is that Ms. Tunie is also a budding director and producer. Recently she directed and produced her first feature, See anda In September, and has even made a name for herself as a producer on Broadway, with several successful projects under her belt. Tamara was kind enough to give us some insight on how she’s gotten to where she is today.

JM: Already an accomplished actress, you've recently branched out into producing...

She was already a producer, a director and a coroner before she decided to become a duchess, a counselor and a widow.


But that’s Tamara Tunie for you. No matter how much she’s doing, she’s always up for doing more.

“People always assume that I don’t need much sleep,” she says, while on a rehearsal break at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. “I actually do; I just get a lot of deferred sleep in big clumps of time.”

But where does she find those clumps? In June, Tunie finished directing “See anda in September,” a romantic film scheduled for release selanjutnya year. Says Tunie:...

Actress Tamara Tunie has been appearing on NBC's 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit' for the last six years, but now her character is 'totally busting out,' as she likes to say. In fact, this season they made her a series regular. 'We're learning all kinds of things about her that we never knew before. I don't feel as isolated in the morgue anymore,' she notes of her medical examiner character, Dr. Melinda Warner. The only downfall is the hours. 'I berkata to Chris [Meloni] and Mariska [Hargitay], 'I don't know how anda do it,' because it's exhausting on a whole other level, but at the same...