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18 unusual facts about Law & Order: Special Victims Unit


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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lauren Ward

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

Law and Order

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

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".

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.

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.

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.

Stanley Bolander

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

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).

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.

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

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.


Andy Paris

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

Annie Parisse

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

Jeffrey D. Sams

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

John Rothman

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

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.

KGNS-TV

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

Marie Masters

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

Nancy Opel

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

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.

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 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.

Revolutionary United Front

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Vidocq Society

The Society was chronicled in a 2002 episode of The New Detectives entitled "Collective Justice", and was also a plot point in the finale of the 2007–08 season of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.