Tamara Tunie: Anita is Jessica all grown up ... And when it comes to her family, [Anita] she is very protective and fiercely loyal to her family. And will do whatever it takes to protect her ...

The 'As the World Turns' alum plays EGOT winner Anita Dupree on the new CBS daytime soap opera Playing an iconic matriarch is nothing new for Tamara Tunie ... the Dupree family in their gated ...

Tamara Tunie knows how difficult a daytime drama can ... African-American cast -- she plays the matriarch of a family living in a gated community just outside Washington, D.C. Naturally, her ...

Veteran daytime scribe Michele Val Jean has joined the ranks of other soap opera creators including Agnes Nixon (One Life to Live; All My Children), William J.

Tamara Tunie knows how difficult a daytime drama can ... African-American cast -- she plays the matriarch of a family living in a gated community just outside Washington, D.C. Naturally, her ...

On Beyond the Gates, Tamara Tunie portrays the strong matriarch of the Dupree family, Anita Dupree is a force to be reckoned with and, as they say, “We’ve only just begun.

Tamara Tunie teases ‘Beyond the Gates’: ‘It ... “The show is centered around a wealthy African American family and it's showing a part of the African American community that has not ...

When she was on “As the World Turns,” Tunie also starred on Broadway in ... African-American cast -- she plays the matriarch of a family living in a gated community just outside Washington ...

her family members, the Duprees, are heavily involved in politics and community affairs. Daphnee Duplaix, left, spars with Tamara Tunie in "Beyond the Gates." What really sets “Gates” apart ...