Rescuing Desire Part 11

For Law & Order: SVU's Tamara Tunie, playing a medical examiner is in her blood. "My parents are morticians and I grew up in a funeral home, so playing someone who deals with dead people is right up my alley," says the actress, 46. "My parents were very matter-of-fact about death. They taught us the dead are not to be afraid of-it's the living that anda got to keep your eye on."

If you're a Law & Order: SVU peminat and anda get a chance to talk to Tamara Tunie, aka medical examiner Melinda Warner, anda want to ask one thing: Are those actors atau dummies on her table? "Oh, they're real people,...

Tamara Tunie, who simultaneously plays Medical
Examiner Melinda Warner on NBC’s “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and Jessica Griffin on CBS’ “As the World Turns,” has always been a multitasker.

“It’s like, the lebih I have going on, the better,”
Tunie berkata during a baru-baru ini interview. “My mom, she’s a doer, too. She’s a multitasker. So I come sejak it honestly. My philosophy has always been ‘anything can be done.’ I say ‘yes’ to everything. That’s how I have moved through my career. ‘Yes, we can do that.’ ‘We could make that work.’ . . .

There’s a...

"Tamara Tunie (Jessica, As The World Turns) loves living with her guy, Gregory Generet; they're still giving each other Bunga and planning surprise candlelit dinners. The relationship has even survived their renovating a five-bedroom Manhattan manse - partly because, Tamara concedes, they chose to remain in their apartment while the work was going on. 'We have our moments, but when things get tense, we say, 'You know, this is house tension.'

She says there was no instant chemistry when they went out for the first time - on a lunch tarikh - over two years ago. 'I told him I wasn't interested...

While she enjoys doing double duty on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Medical Examiner Dr. Warner, As The World Turns' Tamara Tunie (Jessica) admits to having some initial difficulty adjusting to SVU's dark subject matter. "Oh Lord have mercy...I guess it's a little easier now," says Tunie. "When I was first doing the show, I found the lines difficult to learn. I was like, 'What is this?' because I was used to glancing at something and it was in my head, especially having worked on a soap, which is the fastest work in the world. So then I was having a conversation with a friend of...