Tami Roman

Tami Roman

Born: April 17, 1970
in Mount Vernon, New York, USA
Tamisha Akbar (born April 17, 1970) professionally known as Tami Roman, is an American actress, reality television personality, model, and businesswoman. She first gained fame on The Real World: Los Angeles in 1993.

During her time on The Real World: Los Angeles, Roman formed her own R&B girl group quartet called Reality. Roman herself was one of the four members and the rapper of the group as well. During the same time, the group signed a record contract with Mercury Records. In 1994, while still under contract with Mercury Records, Roman changed the group's name from Reality to Female. Also in 1994, she married NBA player Kenny Anderson and they have 2 children. They divorced by February 2001.

Roman gained more fame as she appeared as the dealer on the 2001 revival of Card Sharks, and on several other shows, including an episode of One on One (season 3, episode 4) and BET’s original tv series, “the Parker’s”, as Dina (season 1, episode 14).

After making cameo appearances and starring in supporting roles in various TV shows and films in the 1990s and 2000s, Roman became one of the main cast members and breakout stars of the reality series VH1's Basketball Wives in 2010. She was then cast on the Basketball Wives spinoff Basketball Wives: LA, starting with the fourth season in 2015.

Roman appeared on two episodes of the CBS show Extant. Roman could also be heard on Tami Roman's Love Talk & Hot Jamz with advice columnist and rapper Willie D of the Geto Boys and Reggie Youngblood. Roman and her then-boyfriend Reggie Youngblood appeared on Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars for its 3rd season in May 2015; they later married in 2018.

In 2022, she hosts the new VH1 reality series Caught in the Act: Unfaithful.

Movies for Tami Roman...

Whatever It Takes
Title: Whatever It Takes
Character: Tracy
Released: December 21, 2023
Type: Movie
Enter the holidays. It's Thanksgiving weekend, snow is falling, Christmas is on the horizon and the promises of the New Year are near. Navigating careers, life and the nuances of friendship, five women bond over the imperfections in their love lives. The holidays bring some of them their greatest wishes and others their most profound losses.
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Girl in the Closet
Title: Girl in the Closet
Character: Mia
Released: March 11, 2023
Type: Movie
Based on real-life events, Girl In the Closet tells the story of 10 year old Cameron, who, after her mother suffered an aneurysm, was adopted by her Aunt Mia, who already had a husband and daughter of her own. Soon after arriving in her new home, Cameron started hearing strange, ghostly voices at night coming from the basement's locked door. Little Cameron would soon discover what was actually behind that door, people chained to the wall, innocent victims of her Aunt's schemes to enrich herself by cashing their benefit checks. It wasn't long before Cameron was demoted down into the basement herself, where she would stay for the next ten years while police thought she was missing.
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Title: Haus of Vicious
Character: Chantel Vivian
Released: August 17, 2022
Type: TV
From creator Jill Ramsey, the eight-episode first season follows Roman's character Chantel Vivian, a fashion designer whose success is overshadowed by her narcissistic husband, addiction, unresolved childhood traumas and dysfunctional personal life. With the assistance of her secret weapon, Jaelyn Ryan (Erica Peeples), publicist to her Vicious Empire, Chantel works to rise through the ranks, but her husband Kane's (Redaric Williams) behavior threatens to tear down the house Chantel built.
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Title: Caught in the Act: Unfaithful
Released: July 18, 2022
Type: TV
Host Tami Roman sets out on a mission geared at empowering suspicious lovers in catching their cheating partners whle in the middle of the act. With a little help from relationship expert Kevin Carr and private investigator Brianne Joseph, she manages to uncover both the truth and the receipts required to expose the cheats. If caught cheating, the show gives the victims of infidelity a choice when it comes to bringing justice: they can team up with the other lover, or ambush both the partner and their lover together.
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Bid for Love
Title: Bid for Love
Character: Dr. Simone
Released: June 23, 2022
Type: Movie
After being injured and doing a bid in prison due to Memphis, her former drug trafficking boyfriend, Sasha comes out into the arms of Malik. Malik spoils her with gifts and gets her a job at his real estate office. However, Malik constantly uses his gifts and her past against her to keep her in his grasp. A love struck Sasha falls head over heels for Malik who slowly attempts to alienate her from her close ones and secretly plots against her. Her therapist and unexpected new friends opens her eyes to her history of relationships and gives her advice on how to deal with them and getting her life back.
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Title: The Ms. Pat Show
Character: Denise
Released: August 12, 2021
Type: TV
A woman from Atlanta finds herself in conservative middle America where she lives her life as a reluctant suburban mom.
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Title: For Real: The Story of Reality TV
Released: March 25, 2021
Type: TV
Explore with Cohen a theme or moment from reality television and sit down with the biggest names in the unscripted world.
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Title: The Real World Homecoming
Character: Self
Released: March 4, 2021
Type: TV
After spending decades apart, the roommates featured in The Real World reconnect to find out how the series transformed their lives since the cameras stopped rolling, and they’ll discover, once again, what happens when people stop being polite… and start getting real.
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Tijuana Jackson: Purpose Over Prison
Title: Tijuana Jackson: Purpose Over Prison
Character: Sharea Jackson
Released: July 31, 2020
Type: Movie
An ex convict on parole is set on becoming a world renowned motivational speaker.
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Title: Secret Celebrity RuPaul's Drag Race
Character: Self - Special Guest / Miss Shenita Cocktail
Released: April 24, 2020
Type: TV
Secret celebrities - from all walks of life - compete in full drag as they try to impress Emmy Award winning host, RuPaul. To save themselves from elimination, they have to lip sync for their lives. In the end, one celebrity will be crowned America's Next Celebrity Drag Superstar.
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Title: Truth Be Told
Character: Lillian Scoville
Released: December 6, 2019
Type: TV
Descend into the world of true-crime podcasts with Poppy Parnell, who risks everything—including her life—to pursue truth and justice.
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Title: Carl Weber's The Family Business
Character: London Duncan
Released: November 13, 2018
Type: TV
Meet the Duncans, a prominent family from Jamaica, Queens. By day, they’re an upstanding family; by night, they live a dangerous secret life.
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District
Title: District
Character: Tasha
Released: February 20, 2018
Type: Movie
A young adult learns that some boys in the hood are simply just goods to wealthy men in the area. It's a tale that truly questions how much you value your self-worth.
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When Love Kills: The Falicia Blakely Story
Title: When Love Kills: The Falicia Blakely Story
Character: Stacey
Released: September 4, 2017
Type: Movie
"Hit A Lick," tells the tragic story of Falicia Blakely, a teen mom who grows up in the fast-lane. When she becomes an exotic dancer, she attracts the attention of local pimp and predator, Dino. His empty promises of a life together turns Falicia into a pawn in his dangerous games; and she's forced to prove her love for him at the expense of innocent lives.
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Title: Tales
Character: Silk
Released: June 27, 2017
Type: TV
A one-hour anthology series that distills classic hip-hop records and reimagines them as cinematic love letters.
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Title: Extant
Character: Cass Hendy
Released: July 9, 2014
Type: TV
An astronaut returns home from a year long solo mission in space. She tries to reconnect with her husband and son in their everyday life. Her experiences in space and home lead to events that ultimately will change the course of human history.
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Title: Belle's
Character: Loreta Cooper
Released: February 1, 2013
Type: TV
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Life, Love, Soul
Title: Life, Love, Soul
Character: Renee Jackson
Released: April 13, 2012
Type: Movie
The tragedy-to-triumph story of Roosevelt Jackson (Robbie Tate-Brickle), a seventeen-year-old honor student coping with the sudden death of his mother (Tami Roman), his tumultuous relationship with his previously estranged father (Chad Coleman), and his own journey to manhood. It's the story of a young man who loses everything and triumphantly finds himself.
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Title: Basketball Wives LA
Character: Self
Released: August 29, 2011
Type: TV
The Los Angeles based spin-off of Basketball Wives, Basketball Wives LA follows the lives of a group of women with relationships to some of the biggest basketball players in the game.
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Title: Moonlight
Character: Maureen
Released: September 28, 2007
Type: TV
Mick St. John is a captivating, charming and immortal private investigator from Los Angeles, who defies the traditional blood-sucking norms of his vampire tendencies by using his wit and powerful supernatural abilities to help the living.
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The Last Stand
Title: The Last Stand
Character: DeDe Calvin
Released: December 7, 2006
Type: Movie
The Last Stand, a drama that chronicles the life of four very different people attempting success as performers in Los Angeles until life becomes too much to handle.
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Title: Sex, Love & Secrets
Character: Angela
Released: September 26, 2005
Type: TV
A drama chronicling the lives of twentysomethings in the hip L.A. neighborhood of Silverlake.
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Hair Show
Title: Hair Show
Character: Zora
Released: October 17, 2004
Type: Movie
Peaches, a hair stylist from Baltimore, and her estranged sister, Angela, the owner of an upscale salon in Beverly Hills, get reacquainted when Peaches decides to attend a celebration for Angela in LA. The reunion is bittersweet and worsens when Angela finds out that Peaches is on the run from the IRS and has only a few days to pay $50,000 in back taxes. After some hilarious moments and passionate exchanges, the two sisters join forces to fight off a pesky rival salon owner Marcella and save Peaches from her troubles by competing for a lucrative cash prize and bragging rights at the city's annual hair show. BEAUTY SHOP proves that blood and family run thicker than water.
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Hot Parts
Title: Hot Parts
Character: Midnight
Released: November 18, 2003
Type: Movie
A stripper infiltrates a ring of car thieves to avenge her murdered brother.
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Hood Rat
Title: Hood Rat
Character: Judge Bankhead
Released: April 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Think of it as Willard in the hood, the debut feature from director Leslie Small finds a Isaiah Washington playing a kindly man who turns maniacal with revenge and enlists the help of some man-eating rodents. Living in a rat-infested apartment building, Max is pushed to the edge when his handicapped brother is killed due to the conditions of the inner-city slum. With the rats as his willing soldiers, Max sets out to avenge the senseless death. Hood Rat also stars rapper-turned-actor Ice-T.
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MacArthur Park
Title: MacArthur Park
Character: Rose
Released: January 21, 2001
Type: Movie
A portrait of a homeless park community bonded by crack cocaine addiction. In the park's drug-fixated shantytown, Cody is a kind of crackhead father figure who helps his friends when they are in trouble or in desperate need of a "blast." His girlfriend, Alicia, is a romantic who's losing her soul to the drug, and E-Max is a street hustling pimp who is trying to scoop young Linda into his motley legion of harlots. Hoover Blue, earth mother to all the addicts, attempts to pound some knowledge into the starry-eyed Linda while Cody tries to help young P-Air get his hustle on to record a hip hop track and make it big. But when Cody's real son, Terry, tracks him down to tell him his wife has passed away, Cody doesn't even recognize him at first and then can't help him with postmortem affairs. After five years of crack addiction, Cody wants to get straight and do right by Terry, but the harder he struggles to escape the park, the more it closes in on him.
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Title: Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
Character: Saleslady #1
Released: September 27, 1996
Type: TV
On her sixteenth birthday, Sabrina Spellman discovers she has magical powers. She lives with her 600-year-old aunts Hilda and Zelda as well as talking cat Salem in the fictional town of Westbridge, Massachusetts.
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The Real World Reunion: Inside Out
Title: The Real World Reunion: Inside Out
Character: Herself
Released: March 5, 1996
Type: Movie
The casts of the first four "Real World" seasons reunite to relive old times, settle feuds, and answer questions from a studio audience.
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Title: The Real World
Character: Herself
Released: May 21, 1992
Type: TV
Each year, seven strangers in their twenties, from different backgrounds and countries, are chosen to come live together in a major city.
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Title: Married... with Children
Character: Meg
Released: April 5, 1987
Type: TV
Al Bundy is an unsuccessful middle aged shoe salesman with a miserable life and an equally dysfunctional family. He hates his job, his wife is lazy, his son is dysfunctional (especially with women), and his daughter is dim-witted and promiscuous.