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.

Tamara Tunie knows how difficult a daytime drama ... Clifton Davis, who plays Dupree’s husband, looked to John Lewis as a role model. “He emerged from the Civil Rights Movement.