Tami Roman

Career

After losing an acting role in the 1991 film Boyz n the Hood, Roman began taking acting classes from Chip Fields, who later helped her turn her television fame into an acting career. She appeared as the dealer on the 2001 revival of Card Sharks and had guest roles on One on One and The Parkers. In 2010, Roman joined the main cast of VH1's Basketball Wives, and later appeared on its spinoff Basketball Wives LA starting with the fourth season in 2015.

She also appeared on two episodes of Extant and co-hosted Tami Roman's Love Talk & Hot Jamz on Houston's KCOH Radio with Willie D and Reggie Youngblood. Roman and Youngblood appeared on Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars for its third season in 2015. She has plans to release hair and cosmetic lines. After posting parody short films called "Bonnet Chronicles" on Instagram, the videos were turned into a scripted series on TIDAL in 2018.

That year, she was cast as London Duncan-Grant on BET's The Family Business. In 2019, she had a recurring role on Saints & Sinners and joined the cast of Apple TV+'s Truth Be Told, which ended in 2023. In 2021, Roman was cast as Denise on BET+'s The Ms. Pat Show; the role was written for her based on Bonnet Chronicles, though Ms. Pat initially opposed casting reality TV stars. Also in 2021, Roman founded Roman Ramsey Productions and launched the talk show Get Into It with Tami Roman on Fox Soul.

Personal life

Roman married NBA player Kenny Anderson on August 26, 1993, and they had two daughters, Lyric Chanel (born 1994) and Jazz Lauren (born 1996), before divorcing in February 2001. She began dating Reggie Youngblood in 2013 and married him on August 17, 2018 in Las Vegas, as documented in the special "Tami Ever After". On July 24, 2026, she was inducted as an honorary member of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc.