Tony Tambi is a Nigerian-born, Cameroon-raised, U.S based actor and filmmaker. After spending the first seven years of his life in Nigeria and the next fourteen in Cameroon, he moved to Minnesota in 1999 to further his education. Four years later, he arrived in Los Angeles with the goal of pursuing an acting career.
In his second year in LA, he received an NAACP Theatre Award Nomination for playing the character Monday in The God Botherers. Other plays followed including the critically-acclaimed world premiere Butterflies of Uganda, A Providential Occurrence, The Fair Maid of the West and Saturday Night at The Palace. His first TV credit was a co-starring role on The Unit, followed by other appearances on Scrubs, NCIS Los Angeles and a recurring role on Nip Tuck.
After various starring and supporting roles in numerous films, he co-wrote, directed, produced and starred in the short film CHAPTER ONE. It was awarded an Award of Merit from Best Shorts Competition, and went on to play at various festivals nationwide, culminating in multiple airings on PBS-KCVR, as part of its Shorts Showcase Festival. Other credits include the dark comedy OSCAR (previously titled FILMMAKERS ANONYMOUS), THE ASPECT RATIO and LORALAI. His screenwriting debut LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT was one of the eight projects selected to join Forest Whitaker's JuntoBox Films Inaugural Feature Film Incubator Program in 2014. He directed the pilot episode of CON$EQUENCES as well as Episodes 4, 5 and the Season Finale.