Daytime Soap Opera
Actor Of The Week

Tamara Tunie (Anita, Beyond The Gates)

While BTG continues to struggle with some of their other storylines, the cancer one has been nicely executed so far, a much better showcase for their marquee star’s talents than anything else she’s been given to play in the show’s first year. This week, Anita, very soon after her first chemo session, charged out of the house when daughter Dani needed comfort but the price of that excursion and her cancer treatment hit her the next day, forcing Anita to reluctantly concede that she didn’t have it in her to spend the kind of time with Kat and Samantha that she wanted to. Tunie well-conveyed Anita’s emotional drive to be at her daughter’s side as well as her subsequent physical limitations in what had to be a difficult line to straddle acting-wise, maintaining the character’s powerhouse persona while at the same time showing that Anita is indeed as human as the rest of us, she may be a fighter but she’s as vulnerable to this disease as anyone in else would be.