Tama Hudson is a fictional character on the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street who was portrayed by David Wikaira-Paul from 2001 to 2006.

However, when Shannon attempted suicide and Tama nearly died in a building collapse, the two decided to commit to a future together ad got engaged.

Despite appearing happy, whilst Tama was away Shannon started an affair with Vinnie Kruse (Pua Magasiva) and the two later broke up only to reconcile in the aftermath of Shannon supporting Tama through his uncle Victor's (Calvin Tutaeo) trial and false imprisonment for the murder of Geoff Greenlaw (Andrew Laing) and got engaged once again, much to the chagrin of Te Hana (Vanessa Rare).

The two took in Tama's troublesome cousin Eti Kawaka (Isaac Bell) and Shannon again fell pregnant, giving birth to Rangimarie Hudson (Mia Curreen-Poko) in May.

Realising the two outside parties were causing nothing but distractions, with Te Hana trying to seek custody of Rangimarie for herself and with Whetu demanding $25,000 from his threeway agreement with Tama and their cousin Jay Copeland (Jamie Passier-Armstrong) to be bought out of his share of the family's Kahu Kai business, Tama and Shannon settled their issues independently, with the two agreeing on who kept which items for whom and ended up on agreeing to Shannon being sole guardian of Rangimarie.