Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– ) Full Cast & Crew. See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro Series Directed by . David Platt ... (54 episodes, 2000-2010) Jean de Segonzac ... Defense Lawyer / ... 4 episodes, 2004-2021 Joanne Baron ... Counselor Diane Schwartz 4 ...
IMDb profile. Ella Aiko Anderson (born March 26, 2005 in Ypsilanti, Michigan) is an actress who guest-starred on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in the episode "Downloaded Child" as Maddie Aschler . She currently stars as Piper Hart on the Nickelodeon TV series Henry Danger. She has played Rachel Rawlings in The Boss, and Vicky in Mother's Day, both films from 2016, and …
· Pam Grier. “Jackie Wilson” star Pam Grier has been on “SVU” twice, guest-starring as Asst. U.S. Attorney Claudia Williams. Grier appears in the episodes “Pandora” and “Disappearing ...
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Rafael BarbaLaw & Order characterFirst appearance"Twenty-Five Acts" October 10, 2012Last appearance"The Christmas Episode" December 9, 2021Portrayed byRaúl Esparza3 more rows
Mariska (Ma-rish-ka) Magdolna Hargitay was born on January 23, 1964, in Santa Monica, California. Her parents are Mickey Hargitay and Jayne Mansfield. She is the youngest of their three children.
Actress March previously stated in an interview with TV Guide that she didn't want to get "too comfortable" with Law and Order SVU.
58 years (January 23, 1964)Mariska Hargitay / AgeHow old is Mariska Hargitay? Mariska Hargitay age is 55 years. She was born on January 23, 1964, in Santa Monica, California.
He melted down in front of Benson, and it turned out the pair did sleep together when she was just 16 (in case you weren't sure).
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In real life, the NYPD's retirement age is 63 and as Belzer was ageing the showrunners decided to stay true to life and give him the retirement the character would have actually had.
As Senior ADA, Casey Novak often played fast and loose with the rules of the justice department in pursuit of getting a conviction. On the show, the ADA's reason for leaving was that Casey Novak had knowingly violated due process and as a result, was forced to stop working with the Special Victims Unit.
While neither the actor nor the show revealed why Munch had left SVU, after actor Dann Florek who played Captain Cragen also left the series some months later, it was revealed that the reason behind both actors leaving was the NYPD's real-life mandatory retirement age, which is 63.
Hargitay and Hermann have a biological son, August, 5½, whom Hargitay says is feeling “pretty good and pretty powerful” about his younger siblings. “August thinks this was all his idea,” Hargitay tells Good Housekeeping in their May issue. “He said, 'I want a baby sister,' and Amaya came.
HungarianHer father was the Hungarian-born former Mr. Universe, Mickey Hargitay. Her first and middle names are Hungarian and refer to Mary Magdalene (Mariska is a diminutive of Mary). She was raised Catholic.
Peter HermannMariska Hargitay / Spouse (m. 2004)Peter Hermann is an American actor, producer and writer. He is the husband of Mariska Hargitay, with whom he has three children. He is best known for his roles as Charles Brooks in Younger and Trevor Langan in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Wikipedia
Beatrice "Bebe" Neuwirth is the daughter of Sydney Anne, an artist, and Lee Paul Neuwirth, a mathematician. Born and raised in Princeton, New Jersey, she started out as a dancer. Her New York career started out in "A Chorus Line". She won a Tony Award for her part in "Sweet Charity" and two Emmy ...
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Roger Bart was born on September 29, 1962 in Norwalk, Connecticut, USA. He is an actor, known for The Producers (2005) and American Gangster (2007).
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Portrayed by Dann Florek. Episodes: " Payback " – " Amaro's One-Eighty ", " Perverted Justice ". Donald Cragen is the Captain of the Special Victims Unit. Florek originally portrayed the character from 1990 to 1993 in the original Law & Order series.
The characters of Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler were named for creator Dick Wolf 's children. Wolf's third child, daughter Sarina, had a character named for her, Benson's mother was named Serena, as well as former ADA Serena Southerlyn on the original Law & Order and Det. Serena Stevens on Law & Order: Criminal Intent .
Cragen was written out of Law & Order in 1993, as he is transferred to Anti-Corruption Task Force, occasionally making guest appearances on the show. The character was brought back full-time in 1999 to be the Captain of the Special Victims Unit.
Christine Lahti was originally slated to guest-star in a single four episode-arc as Executive ADA Sonya Paxton, in the eleventh season of the long-running Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, while producers found a permanent replacement for outgoing ADA Alexandra Cabot ( Stephanie March ).
John Munch was portrayed by Richard Belzer from 1993 to 2014 ( Homicide: Life on the Streets ). Portrayed by Richard Belzer. Episodes: " Payback " – " Wonderland Story ", " Spring Awakening ", " Fashionable Crimes ". John Munch was a detective, and later a sergeant in the Manhattan Special Victims Unit.
Kathy Stabler was Detective Elliot Stabler's wife: they got married when they were both 17. The two are separated for some time in seasons 6 through 8, but Kathy shows up in the squad-room in the season 8 finale "Screwed" and tells him that she needs him to come home because she is pregnant. In the season 9 episode "Paternity", Kathy and Detective Benson are involved in a car accident while Benson was helping Elliot by bringing Kathy to the doctor for a check-up. Kathy is pinned and unconscious when Benson wakes up and calls for help. Benson is tasked with helping EMS stabilize her as they cannot get into the car. Kathy is extracted from the car by firefighters and placed in the ambulance, where she goes into labor and delivers a baby boy before she becomes unconscious again. Elliot, who had been upstate retrieving a perp, arrives at the hospital and embraces Kathy and his new son, Elliot Jr. Kathy and Elliot have five children together: Maureen, Kathleen Louise, twins Richard ("Dickie") and Elizabeth ("Lizzie"), and Elliot Jr ("Eli"). Kathy returned to L&O:SVU after a 10 year hiatus along with her husband, Elliot.In "Return of the Prodigal Son," she is approaching a rental car she intends to drive when a bomb goes off and she is caught in the blast radius. She is taken to a hospital and, while there, goes into cardiac arrest, eventually dying from a ruptured spleen incurred from the bombing.
Portrayed by Robert John Burke. Episodes: " Counterfeit " – " The Longest Night of Rain ". Ed Tucker is an officer in the Internal Affairs Bureau of the NYPD who has frequently been assigned to question the SVU squad whenever there is an allegation of misconduct.
Acting. Neal first appeared on Law & Order: SVU as a guest star, playing a rapist in the Season 3 episode " Ridicule ". Neal first appeared as Assistant District Attorney Casey Novak in the show's fifth season, replacing Stephanie March, who played Alexandra Cabot .
Diane Neal (born November 17, 1976) is an American actress best known for her role as New York Assistant District Attorney Casey Novak in the television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, which she played from 2003 to 2008 and 2011 to 2012.
In 2011, Neal reprised her role as Novak in the Season 12 episode "Reparations", when Novak returned to SVU as their temporary ADA. After that appearance, she became a recurring character in Season 13. She was last seen in the episode "Valentine's Day".
Ty Burrell. Even “Modern Family” actor Ty Burrell has guest-starred on “SVU” in the third-season episode, “Execution.”. Burrell plays the attorney of a murder suspect already awaiting his execution on death row. Henry Winkler.
Ritter plays a psychiatrist, and husband of a woman who was attacked, and whose fetus was ripped from her womb. Elizabeth Banks. Elizabeth Banks of “Hunger Games,” “Zack and Miri Make a Porno,” and “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” fame gives a memorable performance during the third season of “SVU.”.
Before “Les Misérables” and “Mamma Mia,” Amanda Seyfriend played a missing teenager found sexually assaulted and beaten in the sixth-season episode “Outcry.”. Seyfried’s character recants her statement accusing her attacker, and makes the case hard for the detectives. Robin Williams.
Yes, the very talented Robin Williams guest-starred on “SVU” during the show’s ninth season. Williams played a very manipulative and sneaky man accused of impersonating a police officer and then instructing a fast food manager to sexually assault an employee.
Williams played a very manipulative and sneaky man accused of impersonating a police officer and then instructing a fast food manager to sexually assault an employee. The episode, “Authority,” is based on the Milgram experiment on obedience and authority. Bob Saget.
Bob Saget. “Full House” star and comedian Bob Saget joined the “SVU” cast for one episode during the eighth season. In the episode, “Choreographed,” Saget plays the jealous, criminal husband of a woman discovered to have had a tracking chip implanted in her. Carol Burnett.
Pam Grier. “Jackie Wilson” star Pam Grier has been on “SVU” twice, guest-starring as Asst. U.S. Attorney Claudia Williams. Grier appears in the episodes “Pandora” and “Disappearing Acts.”. Rainn Wilson. Before Rainn Wilson was Dwight Schrute on “The Office,” he was a janitor in the fourth-season episode, “Waste.”.
When Musante left the series after a single season, the concept was remade as Baretta, with Robert Blake starring in the title role. The show went on to become one of the classic 70’s police crime dramas and is still popular today.
The Dragnet television show takes its name from an actual police term, a “dragnet ”.
Baretta is an American detective television series that ran on the ABC television network from 1975 to 1978. Baretta was a modified version of a previous show called Toma. Toma starred Tony Musante as a chameleon-like, real-life New Jersey police officer named David Toma. While the original Toma program was actually popular, it received a great deal of criticism. The criticism was due to its realistic and frequent depiction of police and criminal violence. When Musante left the series after a single season, the concept was remade as Baretta, with Robert Blake starring in the title role.
Barney Miller cast. Barney Miller is a comedy program about a fictional police station in New York City. Captain Barney Miller (Hal Linden) struggles to keep control of the wit and sarcasm of one of the funniest groups of policemen on TV. The show brought us popular characters like Fish, Wojo, and more.
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The Dragnet TV series, syndicated as Badge 714, was a radio and television crime drama about the criminal cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his police partners.
Actor and producer Jack Webb’s goals for the Dragnet show were to portray a realistic, true life, picture of a police officer and their day-to-day lives. He managed to achieve both and the show continued to be influential on subsequent police TV crime dramas for many years to come.