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97 unusual facts about Law & Order


1 Police Plaza

The opening of each season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent ends with an image of the main characters walking outside the One Police Plaza building.

2010 Duke University faux sex thesis controversy

On December 1, 2010, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit aired an episode called "Rescue", based on the story of Karen Owen's faux sex thesis.

Aislinn O'Neill

Her work in film and television includes the 2013 feature film Snow White and the Huntsman starring Kristen Stewart, the 2009 TV serial adaptation of Emma, TV series Law & Order: UK, TV series Chickens starring Simon Bird and BBC TV medical series Holby City.

Alexander Chaplin

Chaplin also appeared in an episode of Law & Order (Season 14, episode 1, "Bodies") as pompous yet ethical legal-aid attorney Timothy Schwimmer who has to defend a serial killer (played by Ritchie Coster).

Alison Bartlett-O'Reilly

Her television credits include: Rescue Me, Law & Order, The Sopranos and NYPD Blue; along with the made-for-television movie Right to Kill? (as Christopher Collet's girlfriend and fellow ROTC cadet), and the ABC Afterschool Special It's Only Rock & Roll.

Andy Paris

He also played a small role in "Crimebusters", the thirteenth episode of the nineteenth season of Law & Order.

Anne Twomey

She has made guest appearances on The Cosby Show, Magnum, P.I., Seinfeld, Spin City, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and had a featured role in the 1998 television remake of Rear Window starring Christopher Reeve and Daryl Hannah.

Aya Cash

An alumnus of the San Francisco School of the Arts as well as the University of Minnesota, Cash has appeared on television series such as Brotherhood, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Law and Order: Criminal Intent and Mercy and Season 2 of HBO's The Newsroom.

Bill L. Norton

He also has directed many television series, among them Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, John Doe, Hack, Las Vegas, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Lincoln Heights and Roswell.

Billionaire Boys Club

Hunt was the basis for Philip Swann, a character in the Law & Order Season 4 episode "American Dream," which was subsequently adapted into the Law & Order: UK episode, "Unsafe".

Bostin Christopher

He has also been featured in television shows such as Law & Order and Wonderland.

Brand Nubian

Jamar also furthered his acting career, recently appearing on an episode of The Sopranos, as well as episodes of Oz, Third Watch, and Law & Order.

Bryan T. Donovan

Other television appearances include Law & Order, Medium, Nite Tales; The Series, Boardwalk Empire, and Blue Bloods.

Charles Horman

In season 10 of Law & Order, the season finale episode "Vaya Con Dios" was based on this murder.

Charlie Rubin

Between 2006 and 2008, Rubin produced 44 episodes of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Charlotte d'Amboise

On television she has appeared in the Kennedy Center Honors, Law & Order, a videotaped performance of the Broadway musical Contact.

Cynthia Darlow

In television, she has made numerous appearances in three of the different Law & Order series, and guest starred on Soul Man and The Sopranos.

David Marshall Grant

Grant went on to play roles in various television shows and movies, including Happy Birthday, Gemini, Legs, Labor of Love, CSI: Miami, Law & Order, Criminal Minds, and Alias.

Law & Order episode "Harvest" (29 October 1997) and episode "Shadow" (26 November 1997) as Charlie Harmon

David Reimer

The Law & Order: Special Victims Unit season 6 episode "Identity" (2005) was based on David and Brian Reimer's lives and their treatment by Money.

David Slack

He has written and/or produced on such shows as Law & Order, Lie to Me, In Plain Sight, Teen Titans, Jackie Chan Adventures, Generator Rex, Transformers: Prime, and more recently, Person of Interest.

Dee Hoty

In addition to stage acting, Hoty has appeared in several film and television productions including As the World Turns, Guiding Light, Models Inc., St. Elsewhere, The Equalizer, Spenser: For Hire, Ryan's Hope, Capital, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Untold West, and Harry and Walter Go to NY.

Donald Manes

A fictionalized version served as the basis for the pilot episode of the television series Law & Order.

Eddie Marrero

Eddie Marrero has appeared on the "Late Show with David Letterman" and co-starred in the historic first ever mini-series for teens "Miracle's Boys" from director Spike Lee for Nickelodeon's The N. Other TV credits include NBC's Third Watch, and the Law & Order franchise.

Ellen McLaughlin

Her on-screen credits include Everything Relative, The Bed You Sleep In, with guest appearances on Law & Order.

Frank Deal

Deal's television credits include Boardwalk Empire, "The Knick", "Elementary", Person of Interest, Blue Bloods, Nurse Jackie, Unforgettable, "Royal Pains", Fringe, The Onion News Network, The Sopranos, Law & Order and Law & Order: SVU (as ADA Don Newvine).

Frank Pellegrino

Notable roles of his include Johnny Dio in GoodFellas, assorted appearances on Law & Order, and FBI Chief Frank Cubitoso on The Sopranos.

Fred J. Scollay

His last part was a recurring role as a judge on several episodes of Law & Order (1991-1996).

Gay Ghost

Gay Ghost comic books were mentioned in Law & Order Season 20, Episode 22 "Love Eternal", which first aired on 5/17/2010.

Gina Gionfriddo

Law & Order (Episodes: Betrayal, Driven, Executioner, Bogeyman, Lost Boys)

Intertitle

Law & Order use them to give only the location of the upcoming scene.

Isabel Gillies

Prior to her role on SVU, Gillies appeared in "Bad Girl," an episode of the original Law & Order series, playing a young woman who murders an undercover police officer and then undergoes a religious conversion during her trial and is born again.

Itstrumental

The album is strung together by a series of skits about the Mental Victims Unit (a play on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) tracking down and arresting Prince Paul.

Jacqueline Hennessy

In 1995, Jill Hennessy, who played Claire Kincaid on the NBC crime drama Law & Order, made a couple of crossover appearances as Kincaid on another series, Homicide: Life on the Street.

Jayce Bartok

In the 1990s, his TV appearances included an ABC unsold pilot entitled Coconut Downs, a recurring role on the Judith Ivey sitcom Down Home (NBC, 1991), an episode of NBC's Law & Order, and the pilot episode of its spin-off Criminal Intent.

Jeremy Blake

The Law & Order episode "Bogeyman" in season 18 is loosely based on the deaths of Duncan and Blake.

Joe Lisi

He also appeared on the NBC television show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Craig Lennon, a parole officer and briefly appeared in the 1995 comedy/crime film The Jerky Boys as a construction worker.

Joel Fabiani

He has guest starred in many other television shows, including Columbo: How to Dial a Murder, Dark Shadows, Starsky and Hutch, The Cosby Show, Murder, She Wrote and Law & Order.

John Gegenhuber

Law & Order (1997) as Pilot in "Judgement in LA: Turnaround"

John Rothman

He has appeared on such shows as Guiding Light, Law & Order and Arrested Development.

John Schneeberger

The case also inspired works of fiction, including "Serendipity", a fifth season episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and the first episode of the 2009 Japanese drama Kiina.

Jon Schroder

In addition to writing and directing, Schroder worked in various crew positions on the televisions shows, The Sopranos, Law & Order, and Sex in the City as well as for the films Spider-man, Kissing Jessica Stein, and Spike Lee’s 3 A.M.

Josh Casaubon

Since leaving One Life to Live, Casaubon has had guest roles on Law & Order (2007), Law & Order SVU (2007), Army Wives (2007), "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" (2012), Damages (2009), and small roles in the films The Good Shepherd (2006) and 27 Dresses (2008).

Kwaku Sintim-Misa

He was also featured in the popular American crime series Law & Order and on the drama series Medal of Honor Rag (by the Tony Award winning director Lloyd Richards.) "KSM" became the first African to stage an original Off-Broadway play when he produced Thoughts of a Confused Black Man, an immensely popular one-man show that raised compelling questions about race in the United States.

Lauren Ward

She has appeared in an episode of Torchwood and Law and Order SVU.

Laurence Luckinbill

Other film appearances include Such Good Friends, Cocktail and The Promise, and he has been seen in numerous television shows, including Law & Order, Barnaby Jones, Columbo episode Make Me a Perfect Murder and Murder, She Wrote.

Law and Order

"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (1999-present), the second series in the franchise

Law & Order: UK (2009–present), an adaptation of the original series

LOLA

Law & Order: LA, an American police procedural-legal television drama series set in Los Angeles

Major Case Squad

The series Law & Order: Criminal Intent, depicts a fictionalized version of the NYPD Major Case Squad, one that investigates murders, which the real Major Case Squad does not do.

Marie Masters

Masters has been featured on several primetime programs, including Kate and Allie, Law & Order, and Our Group.

Matt Earl Beesley

Some of his television directing credits include CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, Prison Break, Lost, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Criminal Minds, The Closer and Hawaii Five-0.

Matthew Stocke

Throughout his career, Stocke has made numerous appearances on the Tony Awards and The Today Show and has made guest appearances on the television shows "30 Rock", "The Sopranos", "Conviction", "Law & Order", "Law & Order: SVU", and "Chappelle's Show".

Maysoon Zayid

She started her acting career by appearing on the popular soap opera As the World Turns for two years, as well as guest appearances on Law & Order, NBC Nightly News and ABC's 20/20.

McGill University Faculty of Law

Notable guests on the program include Janet Afary, Jim Stanford, Dean Spade, Barbara Jackman, Jill Hennessy from Law & Order and Fernando Vegas Torrealba of the Venezuelan Supreme Tribunal of Justice.

Mia Dillon

On television, Dillon was featured in Mary and Rhoda and has appeared in all three current shows in the Law & Order franchise.

Michael Marisi Ornstein

Television credits include a recurring role as Detective Bonnaventura on Homicide: Life on the Street, and a two-episode arc on Third Watch, as well as parts in Seinfeld, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Michael Welner

In 2005, the conviction was overturned because prosecution witness, Park Dietz falsely testified that Yates' behavior and defense was identical to an earlier episode of Law & Order.

Nancy Opel

Her television credits include Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and Law & Order: SVU.

Natalie Grant

She was affected by an episode of Law & Order that dealt with the topic and began researching.

Nyambi Nyambi

He appeared in the episode "Four Cops Shot" in the final season of Law & Order and in an independent film William Vincent alongside James Franco and Josh Lucas.

Omar Madha

He has directed numerous episodes of British television such as Hollyoaks, Spooks and Law & Order: UK as well as American television such as Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Big Love and Caprica.

Patrick Kerr

Other television appearances in Kerr's repertoire are on Law & Order, The Drew Carey Show, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Will & Grace, Friends and the Friends spin-off Joey.

Pell James

In the early 2000s, she worked on the hit television series Law & Order and Law & Order:SVU.

Pete's Tavern

Pete's Tavern has appeared in numerous films and television programs, including Seinfeld, Ragtime, Endless Love, Law & Order, Nurse Jackie, "Spin City" and Sex and the City.

Peter McManus Cafe

McManus' has been featured in a number of films and television programs, including Highlander, Radio Days, Keeping the Faith, Seinfeld, Law & Order and Saturday Night Live.

Pope Adrian VI

In an episode of the American TV show Law & Order entitled Divorce, a homeless man believes he is Pope Adrian VI.

Revolutionary United Front

Law & Order episode "Blood Money" was heavily mounted around the strife in Sierra Leone and the traffic in conflict diamonds.

Rhetta Hughes

She was also seen in the TV version of the musical Purlie, and appeared in an episode of Law & Order.

Robert Cicchini

Other television appearances include episodes of Law & Order, ER, Chicago Hope, The Sopranos, NYPD Blue, Gilmore Girls, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Everybody Hates Chris and others.

Robert Palm

Robert Palm is an American writer and producer for television; more popularly known as the first executive producer of the currently running NBC drama, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and a consulting producer on the currently running CBS drama, NCIS.

Robert Stuart Nathan

For episodes of Law & Order and its sequels he received an Edgar Award nomination from the Mystery Writers of America, four Emmy nominations and a Humanitas Award nomination as a producer, The Shine Award, The Silver Gavel Award, and the GLAAD Media Award.

Nathan began working in episodic television on the original staff of Law & Order.

Roger Wolfson

Roger S. Wolfson is an American TV writer and screenwriter from New Haven, Connecticut, and is most notable for writing for the TV series Fairly Legal, Saving Grace, The Closer, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Century City.

Rosanna Carter

Her last guest star appearance was on Law & Order in 1997 as Mrs. Hemmerick in the season eight première.

Law & Order (1990-1997, 3 episodes: "Out of the Half-Light", as "Mrs. Jackson", "Snatched", as "old woman", "Thrill", as "Mrs. Hemmerick")

Rosemary Rodriguez

Rodriguez has worked as a director on many United States television series, including Third Watch, Law & Order, Rescue Me, Castle, Criminal Minds, Undercovers, Without a Trace, and Elementary.

Sam Jaeger

Jaeger started his acting career while still in college, with a small guest role in New York-based TV series Law & Order (1990).

Scott Bryce

Bryce has also made numerous guest starring appearances in primetime, including roles on "Murphy Brown," on which he played the recurring role of Faith Ford's husband Will Forrest, "ER," "Law & Order," "Reba" and "Sex and the City."

Sophie Nyweide

Nyweide also had a guest appearance in Law & Order as Agatha Archer in the episode "Charity Case".

Special Victims Unit

The television show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, the first spin-off in the Law & Order franchise, follows the cases of a fictional NYPD SVU division.

Spencer Garrett

2004: Law & Order (TV series, appeared in three episodes 2000, 2002 and 2004)

Stanley Bolander

In the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Trials", Munch called Bolander his mentor.

Stephen Barker Turner

He has also appeared on television in episodes of Swift Justice, Sex and the City, Law & Order, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Steven Zirnkilton

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Susham Bedi

More recently in the United States she has appeared on such shows as "True Crime: New York City", "Third Watch", and "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit", and in movies such as "The Guru" (2002) and "ABCD" (1999).

T.V. Carpio

Carpio has also appeared on television, including a TV movie and in one episode of both The Jury and Law & Order.

The Acting Class

The film's supporting cast includes many of Hennessy's former Law & Order castmates, including Chris Noth, Jerry Orbach, Benjamin Bratt and Alec Baldwin as himself.

The Water Coolers

The actors in the revolving cast have appeared on and off Broadway, in television and radio commercials, in such TV shows as Law & Order, Rescue Me, General Hospital, All My Children, Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien and in major comedy clubs and concert halls across the country.

The Way That I Love You

Ashanti said she chose him for his work with shows like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Law & Order, and Heroes.

Tim Bayliss

Munch mentions in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit that he once had a partner who took cases so seriously that he eventually killed himself.

Universal Studios Hollywood

Destroyed were 40,000 to 50,000 archived digital video and film copies chronicling Universal's movie and TV show history, dating back to the 1920s, including the films Knocked Up and Atonement, the NBC series Law & Order, The Office, and Miami Vice, and CBS's I Love Lucy.

Val Avery

Other TV appearances include Gunsmoke, Daniel Boone, The Twilight Zone, The Munsters, The Odd Couple, Kojak, Quincy, M.E. and Law & Order.

Vanessa Campbell

Vanessa Campbell (June 24, 1953 - August 25, 2002) was a cabaret, blues, jazz and rock singer and actress who appeared in a national tour of "Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris" and Law & Order.

Wasp knife

The Wasp Knife was notably featured as a murder weapon in the Season 7 episode of CSI: NY, Identity Crisis, the Season 8 of NCIS, False Witness, the Season 12 episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Bang and the Patricia Cornwell novel Red Mist

Wendy Makkena

She has made various guest or recurring roles on such television shows as Law & Order, Monsters, NYPD Blue, House, and NCIS.

WMYS-LD

Syndicated programming featured on the station includes Tyler Perry's House of Payne, Rules of Engagement, Everybody Loves Raymond, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Closer and That '70s Show.


Annie Parisse

Parisse's brother actor Louis Cancelmi was married to Elisabeth Waterston, the daughter of Law & Order veteran Sam Waterston, in October 2006.

Coco Austin

Austin has made guest appearances on TV shows and specials including Hip-Hop Wives, the Comedy Central Roast of Flavor Flav, RuPaul's Drag Race 5, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson,The Dr. Oz Show, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Dov Davidoff

In addition to performing regularly in clubs and colleges throughout the country, Davidoff also acted in Invincible with Mark Wahlberg, and has made guest or recurring appearances on various TV shows including Chelsea Lately, Chappelle's Show, Law & Order, Raines, Whitney, and most recently, The League.

Ellis E. Williams

In 1991, he made his first television appearance (since SNL in 1980), on an episode of Law & Order, as Ray Bell, then he appeared in numerous films: Hangin' with the Homeboys and Strictly Business, opposite Halle Berry, Anne-Marie Johnson, Tommy Davidson, and Samuel L. Jackson.

Garret Dillahunt

It was announced on August 20, 2009 that Dillahunt would square off with Rosie Perez on an episode ("Hardwired") of Law & Order: SVU later that year in 2009 about pedophilia.

Jeffrey D. Sams

Sams has had recurring roles on television series such as Strong Medicine, Law & Order and CSI.

KGNS-TV

Syndicated programming featured on this station includes Ellen, America's Funniest Home Videos, 30 Rock, Entertainment Tonight and Law & Order.

Nola Falacci

When Wheeler rejoins the team in the episode "Contract", Logan stated to her that Falacci now is training at the FBI Academy in Quantico.

Pari, Civitella Paganico

Pari Center for New Learning, a non-profit educational center directed by physicist F. David Peat, who co-authored the book Science, Order, and Creativity with theoretical physicist David Bohm.

Paris Qualles

Qualles has written episodes for several television series, including Seaquest DSV, The Cape, M.A.N.T.I.S., Law & Order, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Quantum Leap, and China Beach.

Peter Crombie

He also made guest appearances on such television series as Spenser: For Hire, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (in the episode "Melora"), Walker, Texas Ranger, Law & Order, Picket Fences, NYPD Blue and many others.

Puerto Rican Day Parade

The parade was portrayed in a negative aspect following the controversial 2000 parade in an 2001 episode of the long-running NBC crime series Law & Order titled "Sunday in the Park with Jorge".

Randy Blair

His film and TV work includes "Naked Brothers Band", "Viralcom", "Law & Order", "Strangers with Candy", Across the Universe, and the film Afterwards with John Malkovich.

Rao's

Rao's was the basis for "Raimondo's," a fictional restaurant featured as the site of a murder in the Law & Order episode "Everybody Loves Raimondo's." The owner of the fictional restaurant was played by actor Ray Abruzzo, who later co-starred with Pellegrino on The Sopranos.

Tony Phelan

His other work includes producing and writing for Law & Order: Trial by Jury, and writing for the programs Push, Nevada, Threat Matrix, MDs, Haunting Sarah, Fling and Cover Me.