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 आप got to keep your eye on."

If you're a Law & Order: SVU प्रशंसक and आप get a chance to talk to Tamara Tunie, aka medical examiner Melinda Warner, आप want to ask one thing: Are those actors या 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 और I have going on, the better,”
Tunie कहा during a हाल का interview. “My mom, she’s a doer, too. She’s a multitasker. So I come द्वारा 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 फूल 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 तारीख, दिनांक - over two years ago. 'I told him I wasn't interested...