Miss Andrews was also writer and Executive Producer of the CBS miniseries, Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, and she wrote the Warner Bros. film, Why Do Fools Fall In Love? starring Halle Berry. Her script for the film is the basis for an upcoming Broadway musical on which Andrews has written the book and co-written the music and lyrics. She also wrote, produced and directed the hugely popular Showtime animated series Sistas 'n the City; and has an essay in the book, The First Time I Got Paid For It: Writers Tales From The Hollywood Trenches (Public Affairs). Miss Andrews has published essays in the Los Angeles Times, Written By and Creative Screenwriting magazines among others.

After New York University where she majored in theater, Andrews performed as an actress in over 100 film and television roles including Conrack, starring Jon Voight, Carny starring Jodie Foster, and her seminal role as Valerie Grant on Days Of Our Lives in daytime television's first interracial romance. But it was the role of Kunta Kinte's girlfriend "Aurelia" in the acclaimed miniseries Roots which led to an incredible relationship with her literary mentor, author Alex Haley. Together they collaborated on the PBS miniseries Alex Haley's  Great Men of African Descent. It led to Andrews' first script sale to Colombia Pictures. 

Tina Andrews has been a guest on The Oprah Show; CBS This Morning; Mysteries and Scandals on E! Entertainment; PBS Frontline; and BET Now with Ed Gordon. She has lectured on writing at New York University, University of Southern California, Los Angeles City College, Cal-State Northridge, UCLA, Colombia College, Indiana University and the University of North Carolina. She serves on the board of directors of the Hollywood Black Film Festival, the Writers Guild Foundation, and the Indiana University Black Film Archives.  

Currently, she has adapted her new historical fiction novel, Charlotte Sophia: Myth, Madness and the Moor, based on Britain's Queen Charlotte Sophia who was of African descent, as a play which Andrews directed to sold-out audiences at Santa Monica's acclaimed Highways Performance Space in 2009. She is now preparing to direct the play for a regional theater production at the Pasadena Playhouse, and a commercial run on Broadway.