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.

How are you channeling Anita Dupree in Beyond The Gates? Tamara Tunie: Anita is Jessica all grown up. You know what I mean [laughs]. No, she’s very different. It’s a very different character.

Tamara Tunie teases ‘Beyond the Gates’: ‘It’s not just a ‘Black soap.’ After all the buzz around CBS’ brand new hour-long daily drama, Tamara, who plays powerhouse matriarch Anita ...

However, Tamara Tunie ... So it’s all of that on this show, but it just looks so much different because of the population of the stories,” Tunie, who starred in CBS’s “As the World ...

Tamara Tunie knows ... Both wanted Tunie because she had been in the arena and could deliver on multiple levels. “She let us know about all the different projects she was doing,” Ducksworth ...

"Secrets and lies, all the good human stuff," Tunie said. Analisa Novak is a content producer for CBS News and the Emmy Award-winning "CBS Mornings." Based in Chicago, she specializes in covering ...

Beloved for decades as Jessica Griffin on As the World Turns, Tamara Tunie is making her grand return to daytime TV in Beyond the Gates-the first network soap opera to premiere in more than 25 years.