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name: "Tamara Asseyev"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tamara-asseyev"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "4 February 1943"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T06:13:29.586893+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."
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# Tamara Asseyev

Producer. Born 4 February 1943 in USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 4 February 1943, USA
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7680769, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0039834/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/947929

## Biography

Tamara Asseyev is an American film and television producer. Born on 4 February 1943, she graduated from Marymount College in 1965 and later earned an MA in Theatre Arts from UCLA. She began her career as a production assistant for Roger Corman on low-budget films including *Targets* (1968) and *The Dunwich Horror* (1970).

In 1976 Asseyev formed a producing partnership with Alexandra Rose. Their credits include *Drive-In* (1976), *I Wanna Hold Your Hand* (1978), *Big Wednesday* (1978) and *Norma Rae* (1979). The latter, directed by Martin Ritt and starring Sally Field, received four Academy Award nominations including Best Picture. Asseyev later founded Tamara Asseyev Productions and produced several television movies such as *The Penalty Phase* (1986) and *After the Promise* (1987).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, grokipedia.com, filmreference.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Norma Rae* (1979), Fi1m 82, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/norma-rae.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Murder on the Moon* (1989), Executive Producer
- *Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun* (1988), as Producer · Executive Producer
- *After the Promise* (1987), Producer
- *The Penalty Phase* (1986), Producer
- *Norma Rae* (1979), Producer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/norma-rae.md)
- *Big Wednesday* (1978), Executive Producer
- *I Wanna Hold Your Hand* (1978), Producer
- *Drive-In* (1976), Producer
- *Sweet Kill* (1972), Producer
- *The Dunwich Horror* (1970), Production Assistant
- *Targets* (1968), Production Assistant
- *My Three Sons* (1960), series, as Bernardine

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1980: Best Picture (nominated), for *Norma Rae*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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