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The daytime soap opera Beyond the Gates is the latest addition to the world of daytime television in over twenty years. This soap opera is set in a fictional gated society that only caters to the elites living just outside D.C., in the Fairmont Crest. This show broke all stereotypes with an all-black lead cast. The cast of the show features some of the industry veterans, like Tamara Tunie.
Tamara Tunie plays the character of Anita Dupree in the daytime soap opera Beyond the Gates. Anita is one of the leading characters in the soap opera. She is the matriarch of the Dupree family. Married to Vernon Dupree, the former senator, she has two daughters, Nichole and Dani, and many grand and great-grandchildren. Anita's character in the soap opera is one of the most crucial characters. She is the head of the most affluent families of the Fairmont Crest.
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Here's everything to know about Tamara Tunie's character Anita Dupree from Beyond the Gates
Anita Dupree is one of the main characters in the soap opera Beyond the Gates. She has a charismatic and strong personality in the soap opera. Before becoming the matriarch of the most affluent families of the Fairmont Crest, she was a singer. Her singing career started in an all-girl band, Articulettes, and then she went ahead and became famous as a solo jazz artist.
Anita married Vernon and gave birth to two daughters: Nichole Richardson, a psychiatrist, and Dani Dupree (divorced), a supermodel and now an agent. She has four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren in the current storyline. In the recent episode of Beyond the Gates, Anita was seen back on stage. At first, she was hesitant to sing on the stage again.
However, to make her feel confident, Naomi took her to a Karaoke bar, and Dani and Naomi went on the stage with her to boost her confidence. Later, it is seen that Vernon had arranged a meeting with an agent so that Anita could start going on tours again.
Here's an insider's look into the life of Tamara Tunie, the actress who plays Anita Dupree on Beyond the Gates.
Tamara Tunie is an American actress born on March 14, 1959, in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. She is the daughter of James W. Tunie and Evelyn Tunie, who are morticians (a person whose job is to prepare dead people to be buried and to arrange and manage funerals).
Tamara contested in the Miss Black Teenage Pageant in Pittsburgh in the early 1970s. She also graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Musical Theatre in 1981. The actor does not have any children. Tamara was the first African-American actress to play the role of Maggie in the stage drama Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. She was married to Greg Bouquett from 1988 to 1991 and later to Gregory Generet from 1995 to 2018.
Apart from playing the character of Anita Dupree on the CBS daytime soap opera Beyond the Gates, she has been a part of other projects like TriBeCa, As the World Turns, Class of her Own, Irreplaceable You, See You in September, Law and Order, and many more. The actress has won laurels like the Tony Award for co-producing the musical "Spring Awakening" and has also bagged several nominations.
Fans can catch the latest episodes of Beyond the Gates on the CBS network and Paramount+.
