--- name: "Quincy Tyler Bernstine" canonical: "https://film.one/person/quincy-tyler-bernstine" fi1m_id: "quincy-tyler-bernstine" imdb_id: "nm1736370" tmdb_id: 1465486 wikidata_id: "Q113728716" roles: ["Actor"] born: "27 March 1974" reviewed_on_fi1m: 5 average_fi1m_score: 77 average_as: "actor" average_over: 5 updated: "2026-10-01T23:10:24.579202+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Quincy Tyler Bernstine ## Identity Quincy Tyler Bernstine - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/quincy-tyler-bernstine - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** quincy-tyler-bernstine - **IMDb ID:** nm1736370 - **TMDB ID:** 1465486 - **Wikidata ID:** Q113728716 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_Tyler_Bernstine, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113728716, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1736370/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1465486 Actor. Born 27 March 1974 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 27 March 1974, Madison, Wisconsin, USA - **Active:** 2008–present - **Average Fi1m score:** 77, as actor, over 5 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 84 (1), 2010s 76 (3), 2020s 75 (1) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 77 to 76 across 5 titles - **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 0 of 2 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Drama 4, Comedy 1, Crime 1, Romance 1 - **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $141m across 3 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_Tyler_Bernstine, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113728716, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1736370/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1465486 ## Streaming the US now - **Disney+:** [*Furious*](https://film.one/tv/furious.md) (75) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Quincy Tyler Bernstine > Quincy Tyler Bernstine makes authority interesting by leaving us uncertain about the person exercising it. We rate her patient, unsentimental work in *Furious*, where an odd, clever FBI veteran is allowed to remain difficult to read. Nora Washington takes her time in *Furious* (2026), and Quincy Tyler Bernstine never asks us to find that charming. Her FBI veteran is odd, difficult to read and usually the cleverest person present. Bernstine gives her none of the little tics that announce an eccentric character and wait for our approval. We warmed to the series when it slowed down, because her unhurried performance gave us someone whose thinking we wanted to follow. She helps turn a lurid revenge thriller into a programme worth staying with, even when its pacing tries our patience. Her stage work has repeatedly asked for that kind of restraint, with complicated feelings carried in ordinary lines. In *Well, I’ll Let You Go* (2025), she plays Maggie, expressing grief through small emotional shifts rather than raised voices. Before *Furious*, her screen work was often supporting or recurring, from the nursing-home administrator in *Still Alice* (2014) to *Power* (2017–2020). Her deadpan delivery suits an administrator or an agent, though a small part can only reveal so much. *Furious* gives her a major series-regular role and the time to let a character emerge gradually. In Elizabeth Meriwether’s *Furious*, that extra time is put to good use, though not consistently enough. The series is two episodes too long, and our interest in Nora cannot make every stretch necessary. Bernstine has a useful counterweight in Rossum, whose Alice has to be frightening and pitiable at once. Their performances have to work at a distance for much of the run; Bernstine’s calm makes a useful contrast with Alice’s more troubling demands on our sympathy. What we value here is how little she presses us to like Nora. There is a risk that casting her as the capable professional becomes a shortcut for giving a scene weight. The better use is to let her make that professional a little strange, as Meriwether’s series does. Start with *Furious*, provided a good performance is reason enough to forgive the slow stretches. ## Biography Quincy Tyler Bernstine is an American actress and audiobook narrator. She was born on 27 March 1974 in Madison, Wisconsin, and trained at Brown University, where she received a BA, and at the University of California, San Diego, where she earned an MFA. Bernstine is known for stage work, including Broadway appearances in *In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play)* (2009) and *Doubt* (2024), for which she received a Tony Award nomination. She has won multiple Obie Awards, including for Sustained Excellence of Performance in 2019, and has appeared in Off-Broadway productions such as *Marys Seacole* and *Well, I'll Let You Go*. Her screen credits include the films *Rachel Getting Married* (2008), *Manchester by the Sea* (2016) and *The Tender Bar* (2021), and television roles in *Power* (2017–2020), *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (2007) and *Furious* (2026) as Nora Washington. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, playbill.com, ibdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (5) - *Furious* (2026), Fi1m 75, as Nora Washington — [page](https://film.one/tv/furious.md) - *Modern Love* (2019), Fi1m 61, as Sylvia — [page](https://film.one/tv/modern-love.md) - *Manchester by the Sea* (2016), Fi1m 89, as Marianne (3rd Tenant) — [page](https://film.one/film/manchester-by-the-sea.md) - *Still Alice* (2014), Fi1m 77, as Nursing Home Administrator — [page](https://film.one/film/still-alice.md) - *Rachel Getting Married* (2008), Fi1m 84, as 12-Step Receptionist — [page](https://film.one/film/rachel-getting-married.md) ## Complete filmography (37) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Furious* (2026), series, as Nora Washington — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/tv/furious.md) - *Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy* (2025), series, as Dr. Healy - *Allswell in New York* (2023), as Sandra - *Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies* (2023), series, as Mrs Robertson - *White Noise* (2022), as Evacuee with Theory - *Julia* (2022), series, as Documentarian - *The Tender Bar* (2021), as Sidney's Mom - *And Just Like That…* (2021), series, as Grace - *Marys Seacole* (2021), as Mary - *The Equalizer* (2021), series, as Rolanda - *Power Book II: Ghost* (2020), series, as Tameika Washington - *Modern Love* (2019), series, as Sylvia — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/tv/modern-love.md) - *Evil* (2019), series, as Sheila Gibson - *The Code* (2019), series, as Lt. Col. Skylar Maddox - *Easy Living* (2017), as Liz - *Manchester by the Sea* (2016), as Marianne (3rd Tenant) — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/manchester-by-the-sea.md) - *High Maintenance* (2016), series, as Wheeler - *Ned Rifle* (2015), as Mary - *While We're Young* (2015), as Pepper - *Da Sweet Blood of Jesus* (2015), as Usherette / Sister Hazel - *Hungry Hearts* (2015), as Nurse - *Still Alice* (2014), as Nursing Home Administrator — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/still-alice.md) - *Madam Secretary* (2014), series, as Pam Foster - *The Strain* (2014), series, as Brea - *The Leftovers* (2014), series, as Dr. Singley — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-leftovers.md) - *Power* (2014), series, as Tameika Robinson, Tameika Washington - *The Blacklist* (2013), series, as Adoption Agent — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-blacklist.md) - *Ray Donovan* (2013), series, as Detective Perry - *Elementary* (2012), series, as Tamara - *Red Hook Summer* (2012), as Hazel - *Life in Flight* (2010), as Cali - *Blue Bloods* (2010), series, as Faith Turner - *The Good Wife* (2009), series, as Dr. Callie Fisher — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-good-wife.md) - *Rachel Getting Married* (2008), as 12-Step Receptionist — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/rachel-getting-married.md) - *Chappelle's Show* (2003), series, as Brenda Johnson / Rounds - *Law & Order: Criminal Intent* (2001), series, as Pam Gaffney - *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), series, as Sheri Simkins ## Awards ### Other awards — 1 won - Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play 2019: Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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