Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

American television series
Also known as: “SVU”

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Burstyn

  • Ellen Burstyn
    In Ellen Burstyn

    …her guest appearance (2008) on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and for her supporting role (2012) in the miniseries Political Animals. In 2014 she played a crazed matriarch in a television adaptation of the melodramatic thriller Flowers in the Attic (1979), by V.C. Andrews, and two years later she…

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Cox

  • Laverne Cox
    In Laverne Cox

    In 2008 she appeared on Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and had bit parts in other TV series. She also appeared on the reality television show I Want to Work for Diddy (2008). In 2010 Cox produced and starred in TRANSform Me (2010). Each episode follows a female contestant…

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Harden

  • Marcia Gay Harden
    In Marcia Gay Harden

    …part (2005–13) in the series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. She received another Emmy nod for her role as the mother of the title character (played by Anna Paquin) in the TV movie The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009). In 2009 she earned a Tony Award for her…

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Hargitay

  • Mariska Hargitay
    In Mariska Hargitay

    …& Order spin-off known as SVU. Except for a period of maternity leave in 2006 and a brief absence in 2009 as a result of an injury incurred during a stunt, Hargitay portrayed Benson in every episode, setting a record for the longest tenure of a single character portrayed by…

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Odom

Simmons

  • J.K. Simmons
    In J.K. Simmons

    …TV series Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. He won praise for his portrayal of the vicious white supremacist Vern Schillinger in the prison-drama TV series Oz (1997–2003). Simmons played the newspaper editor J. Jonah Jameson in Spider-Man (2002), Spider-Man 2

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U.S. television history

  • Milton Berle
    In Television in the United States: Prime time in the new century

    …2000–01 and inspired four spin-offs: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC, begun 1999), Law & Order: Criminal Intent (NBC/USA, 2001–11), Law & Order: Trial by Jury (NBC, 2005–2006), and Law & Order: Los Angeles (NBC, 2010–11). The medical serial ER (NBC, 1994–2009) remained a hit, but it was eventually…

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