Rescuing Desire Part 6

She was already a producer, a director and a coroner before she decided to become a duchess, a counselor and a widow.


But that’s Tamara Tunie for you. No matter how much she’s doing, she’s always up for doing more.

“People always assume that I don’t need much sleep,” she says, while on a rehearsal break at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. “I actually do; I just get a lot of deferred sleep in big clumps of time.”

But where does she find those clumps? In June, Tunie finished directing “See wewe in September,” a romantic film scheduled for release inayofuata year. Says Tunie:...

Actress Tamara Tunie, best known for playing a no-nonsense medical examiner "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," rarely smiles in that grim role.

But there she was Monday, beaming in the bright sunshine and gracing The Daily News float at the Columbus siku Parade.

"It's so exciting to be here," alisema Tunie as excited mashabiki snapped her photo.

Never mind that Tunie's as Italian as corned beef and cabbage.

"I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day, I'm Italian on Columbus Day, I'm a New Yorker every day," Tunie alisema as she waited for the parade to begin.

Tunie, 51, had already made her mark on Broadway and...