Tamisha Akbar (bornΒ 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 onΒ The Real World: Los Angeles, Roman formed her own R&B girl group quartet calledΒ Reality.Β 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 fromΒ RealityΒ toΒ 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 ofΒ Card Sharks, and on several other shows, including an episode ofΒ One on OneΒ (season 3, episode 4) and BETβs original tv series, βthe Parkerβsβ, 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'sΒ Basketball Wives in 2010. She was then cast on theΒ Basketball Wives spinoff Basketball Wives: LA, starting with the fourth season in 2015. Roman appeared on two episodes of the CBS showΒ Extant. Roman could also be heard onΒ Tami Roman's Love Talk & Hot JamzΒ with advice columnist and rapper Willie DΒ of theΒ Geto BoysΒ and Reggie Youngblood. Roman and her then-boyfriend Reggie Youngblood appeared onΒ Marriage Boot Camp: Reality StarsΒ 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.