Tawny Cypress Movies and TV Shows, Looks Like, Nationality
Sarah Oconnor
Updated on January 02, 2026
Tawny Cypress is an American actress. She has appeared in various television and stage plays. She starred as art dealer Simone Deveaux on the TV series Heroes.
Tawny Cypress Movies and TV Shows
She starred as art dealer Simone Deveaux on the TV series Heroes. She previously held roles on several TV series, including Fox’s drama K-Ville as Ginger “Love Tap” LeBeau, Carly Heath on House of Cards, and Cherie Rollins-Murray on the second and third seasons of the CBS series Unforgettable.
In 2019, Cypress starred as Inez in the film Inez & Doug & Kira. Since 2021, Cypress has starred as Taissa Turner on Showtime’s Yellowjackets.
Looks Like/Nationality
Cypress’s mother is of Hungarian descent and her father was Black and Native American, a descendent of the Accawmacke Nation of the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Cypress still resides in New Jersey.
Since 2000, she has been actively working in film and television. She had a main role in The Blacklist: Redemption as Nez Rowan, a mercenary.