Tamara Tunie (born March 14, 1959 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania) is an African American actress, best known for her work as lawyer Jessica Griffin McKechnie Harris on the soap opera "As the World Turns". She played the role originally from 1986 to 1995, and again from 1999 to 2007. She is best known to nighttime audiences for her roles on detective crime dramas. She played the recurring role of Lillian Fancy on "NYPD Blue" from 1994 to 1997, … Wikipedia
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Graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1981 [1981] 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 www.imdb.com/name/nm0876645/