Tawny Cypress
Acting Born Aug 8, 1976 Point Pleasant, New Jersey, USA 24 credits
Biography
Tawny Cypress (born August 8, 1976) is an American actress. She has appeared in various television and stage plays. She portrayed Simone Deveaux on the TV series Heroes. She previously starred on Fox's drama K-Ville as Ginger "Love Tap" LeBeau, a police officer who suffers the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Her father is of Hungarian and German extraction and her mother is of African-American and Native American ancestry. Cypress was born and raised in Point Pleasant, New Jersey and now lives in New York City.
Her older brother Toby Cypress is a comic book artist.
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Full filmography
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) as Shauna
- Law & Order (1990) as Erin Grassley
- The Blacklist (2013) as Nez Rowan
- FBI (2018) as Jillian Starls
- Blue Bloods (2010) as Patrice
- The Good Wife (2009) as Melinda
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001) as Louisa Iberra
- Elementary (2012) as Black Suit
- Supergirl (2015) as Senator Miranda Crane
- Billions (2016) as Dean Walker
- The Jennifer Hudson Show (2022)
- Heroes (2006) as Simone Deveaux
- House of Cards (2013) as Carly Heath
- Third Watch (1999) as Sharon Burns
- Unforgettable (2011) as Cherie Rollins-Murray
- Bull (2016) as Brooke Ford
- Warehouse 13 (2009) as Romana
- Rescue Me (2004) as Carla
- Yellowjackets (2021) as Taissa Turner
- Army Wives (2007) as Brenda
- Hack (2002) as Anna Rowe
- 100 Centre Street (2001) as Cassandra
- 100 Centre Street (2001) as Cassandra Rodriguez
- The Blacklist: Redemption (2017) as Nez Rowan