Tamarra Graham

Tamarra Graham is a LAMDA-trained American character actor. As a military veteran and licensed psychologist, she crafts multidimensional characters that exude both strength and vulnerability.


Television credits include Criminal Minds (CBS), 9-1-1 (Fox), Kidding (Showtime), and Adam Ruins Everything (truTV). Other screen credits include the feature films Ktown Cowboys and Sins of Call Girl as well as short films A Knock at the Door and The Sacred Squid, which is currently in production. She has just finished filming First Shift: Redemption, currently in post-production, the third installment of a Paramount+ crime drama directed by Uwe Boll.


Tamarra is a StageScene LA Scenie Award winner for Breakout Actress of the Year in Bee-luther-hatchee (Sierra Madre Playhouse) and Pure Confidence (Lower Depth Theatre). Other stage credits includeThe Gift, Sweat, Julius Caesar, The Seagull, and Hamlet (LAMDA), Handjob (Echo Theatre Company), Nickel and Dimed (Greenhouse Theater Center), and Sarafina! (Edinburgh Fringe Festival). Tamarra has also performed sketch comedy at the Second City, Upright Citizens Brigade, iO Theater, The Pack Theater, and Comedy Central Stage. She most recently led in Fences at the Laguna Playhouse.


Recently branching into voiceover, Tamarra recorded the audio dramas End of the Line (Antaeus Theatre Company) and The Boll Weevil and Chester Higgensworth (Lower Depth Theatre). She is also preparing to record her first audiobook, a collection of short stories based on the lives of American military families during Vietnam.


Tamarra is based in London and Los Angeles.

 

First Shift

First Shift: Redemption, currently in post-production, is the third installment of a Paramount+ crime drama directed by Uwe Boll. Tamarra’s character, Traver, is a police Sergeant on the Crisis Intervention Team called in to de-escalate a mental health emergency involving a distressed man atop the edge of a New York City high-rise building.  The original 2024 film, First Shift, was popular with fans, leading to two sequels and audience interest in a possible series. Link to a Variety article with more info.

Fences

She recently led in Fences at the Laguna Playhouse and picked up some great notices:
“Tamarra Graham gives an impeccable performance as Troy’s wife and the family’s strong-willed matriarch. With every passing scene, Graham shows a gradual but profound development within her character.” – Orange Curtain Review
“Graham is the emotional anchor of the piece. Her performance is layered, raw, and deeply moving” Fanboy Nation

“Tamarra Graham shows us that plainspoken introspection and a knowing consciousness about the perimeters of an unsteady marriage can be more significant than bravado. The role has a smaller, but deeper range. Graham’s early on resigned, rolled-eye reactions to her husband are on point as is angriness and steel as dark events transpire.”