Personal Info
Birth date
1970-04-17 (55 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Mount Vernon, New York, USA
Also known as
Tami Akbar
Tami Anderson
Tami Youngblood
Tamisha Youngblood
Tamisha Anderson
Tamisha Akbar
Tami Roman
Biography
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.
Filmography
Married... with Children
7.71
Overview:
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.Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
7.805
Overview:
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.Extant
6.329
Overview:
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.The Drew Carey Show
6.527
Overview:
Drew is an assistant director of personnel in a Cleveland department store and he has been stuck there for ten years. Other than fighting with co-worker Mimi, his hobbies include drinking beer and not being able to get dates. To make a few extra bucks he has a micro-brewery going in his garage with his buddies.Truth Be Told
7.1
Overview:
Descend into the world of true-crime podcasts with Poppy Parnell, who risks everything—including her life—to pursue truth and justice.The Real World
5.7
Overview:
Each year, seven strangers in their twenties, from different backgrounds and countries, are chosen to come live together in a major city.One on One
7.984
Overview:
A sportscaster becomes a full-time dad when his ex-wife decides to accept a job out of the country and his teenage daughter, Breanna, moves in with him.Moonlight
7.281
Overview:
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.Summerland
6.7
Overview:
Bradin, Nikki and Derrick are 3 kids from an average normal Kansas household. Their whole life is thrown upside-down when their parents are tragically killed in a car accident. Ava Gregory (their aunt) gets custody of her niece and nephews and they move into her Californian home (in Summerland). Ava, a struggling clothes designer, lives with her best friend and business partner, Susannah Rexford, her friend, an ex- pro.surfer, Jay Robertson and her ex-boyfriend, real estate agent, Johnny Durrant. All four of them are highly unequipped to handle children and are not use to including them in their everyday lives.Carl Weber's The Family Business
8.3
Overview:
Meet the Duncans, a prominent family from Jamaica, Queens. By day, they’re an upstanding family; by night, they live a dangerous secret life.Secret Celebrity RuPaul's Drag Race
6
Overview:
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.Beyond the Game
6.2
Overview:
In a reality show that’s too real, the contestants are dying. Now only one will survive… Beyond The Game! Kill or be Killed! Beyond the Game has contestants believing they are part of a reality show, but in reality, they are forced to fight to survive.Sex, Love & Secrets
7
Overview:
A drama chronicling the lives of twentysomethings in the hip L.A. neighborhood of Silverlake.Tales
6.9
Overview:
A one-hour anthology series that distills classic hip-hop records and reimagines them as cinematic love letters.When Love Kills: The Falicia Blakely Story
8.1
Overview:
"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.The Ms. Pat Show
8
Overview:
A woman from Atlanta finds herself in conservative middle America where she lives her life as a reluctant suburban mom.Whatever It Takes
7.333
Overview:
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.Caught in the Act: Unfaithful
7.667
Overview:
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.Basketball Wives
6.667
Overview:
Follow the extraordinary lives of a group of female best friends as they juggle the success and stresses of building businesses, battling groupies, and searching for stability in the unstable arena of being the significant other to a basketball superstar.Basketball Wives LA
6.2
Overview:
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.Life, Love, Soul
7
Overview:
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.For Real: The Story of Reality TV
10
Overview:
Explore with Cohen a theme or moment from reality television and sit down with the biggest names in the unscripted world.Hood Rat
5.4
Overview:
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.Haus of Vicious
10
Overview:
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.The Real World Homecoming
7.6
Overview:
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.MacArthur Park
4.6
Overview:
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.Belle's
10
Overview:
The Cooper family runs an upscale Southern restaurant after wife and mother, Belle, passes away.Bid for Love
7.5
Overview:
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.Tijuana Jackson: Purpose Over Prison
6.682
Overview:
An ex convict on parole is set on becoming a world renowned motivational speaker.Hair Show
5.15
Overview:
Running from the IRS due to back taxes, Baltimore hairdresser and salon owner Peaches reunites with her more successful sister, Angela, a fellow stylist, in Los Angeles. Angela is burdened by her sister's financial woes, and Peaches' rival, Marcella, threatens to take over the salon back in Baltimore. While Angela helps her sister get back on her feet, Peaches enters a hairstyling competition in hopes of winning a big cash prize and saving her salon.Acting
2024Dying to be Famous as Darlene
2023Whatever It Takes as Tracy
2023So Fly Christmas as Dione
2023Girl in the Closet as Mia
2022Haus of Vicious (16 Episodes) as Chantel Vivian
2022Caught in the Act: Unfaithful (60 Episodes) as Self - Host
2022Bid for Love as Dr. Simone
2021The Ms. Pat Show (10 Episodes) as Denise
2021For Real: The Story of Reality TV (7 Episodes) as Self
2021The Real World Homecoming (8 Episodes) as Self
2020Tijuana Jackson: Purpose Over Prison as Sharea Jackson
2020Secret Celebrity RuPaul's Drag Race (1 Episode) as Miss Shenita Cocktail - Contestant
2019Truth Be Told (20 Episodes) as Lillian Scoville
2018Carl Weber's The Family Business (51 Episodes) as London Duncan
2018District as Tasha
2017When Love Kills: The Falicia Blakely Story as Stacey
2017Tales (1 Episode) as Silk
2014Beyond the Game as Reality Presenter
2014Extant (2 Episodes) as Cass Hendy
2013Belle's (6 Episodes) as Loreta Cooper
2012Life, Love, Soul as Renee Jackson
2011Basketball Wives LA (103 Episodes) as Self
2010Basketball Wives (111 Episodes) as Self
2007Moonlight (7 Episodes) as Maureen
2006The Last Stand as DeDe Calvin
2005Sex, Love & Secrets (10 Episodes) as Angela
2004Hair Show as Zora
2004Summerland (1 Episode) as Leslie Sloan
2003Hot Parts as Midnight
2001One on One (1 Episode) as Elizabeth
2001Hood Rat as Judge Bankhead
2001MacArthur Park as Rose
1996Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (1 Episode) as Saleslady #1
1996The Real World Reunion: Inside Out as Herself
1995The Drew Carey Show (1 Episode) as Susan
1992The Real World (22 Episodes) as Herself
1987Married... with Children (1 Episode) as Meg
Production
2024Dying to be Famous ... Executive Producer
2022Haus of Vicious (8 Episodes) ... Executive Producer