Tamara Tunie Recalls Acting in “Law & Order: SVU”,“ Julius Caesar” and“ As The World Turns” All in One Day as a Young Actress

Virginia ChamleeThu, June 25, 2026 at 3:15 PM UTC

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Tamara Tunie as Medical Examiner Warner in LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT -- "Parts" Episode 22, during Curtain Call for "Julius Caesar" on Broadway at The Belasco Theater in New York City, and in AS THE WORLD TURNSCredit: NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty; Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic; Craig Blankenhorn/CBS/Courtesy Everett -

Tamara Tunie is recalling a moment in her career when she did three projects in a single day

In a new interview, she shared that she performed in Julius Caesar on Broadway, and filmed Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and As the World Turns in the same 24-hour stretch

"So in 24 hours, I did three jobs and did one of them three times," she added. "And the only place that that can happen is New York City"

Tamara Tunie is recounting a moment in her career when she worked on three acting projects in a single day.

In a recent episode of the Soapy podcast, Tunie, 67, shared that she was living in New York and simultaneously acting on Broadway's Julius Caesar while also filming episodes of As the World Turns (as Jessica Griffin) and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (as Dr. Melinda Warner).

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Tamara Tunie as Warner in LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNITCredit: Michael Parmelee/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty

"One of my favorite moments in New York City was, I was starring on Broadway with Denzel Washington in Julius Caesar [on Broadway]," Tunie recounted. "And so we were in previews and we had our first preview on a Tuesday night, as you do in the theater. And when we finished the preview, Law & Order picked me up from the theater to go and shoot a scene by the river in February. It was so cold. and wrapped that around 3:30 a.m."

She continued: "Then went home, slept for a couple hours, and then had to be at As the World Turns at 7 and because it was Wednesday, finished As the World Turns about noon and went directly back to the theater to do the matinee of Julius Caesar and then the evening performance."

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"So in 24 hours, I did three jobs and did one of them three times," she added. "And the only place that that can happen is New York City. And that's when I just felt fully a New York City actor, you know, and that's the only place you can do that. Yeah, it was great."

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Tunie added that she was operating partly on adrenaline, and partly on napping throughout the day.

"Once you get in front of the camera, get out on that stage, you're just in the world, right?" she said. "But I had, you know, I had a daybed in my dressing room at As The World Turns. I had my sleeping bag from college tucked under my dressing room at the theater that I would pull out and crawl under there ... and just find a place to nap."

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