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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (often shortened to Law & Order: SVU or SVU) is an American police procedural crime drama television series created by Dick Wolf for NBC.The first spin-off of Law & Order, expanding it into the Law & Order franchise, it stars Mariska Hargitay as Detective (ultimately promoted to Captain) Olivia Benson, now the commanding officer of the Special Victims Unit ...
Richard Jay Belzer (August 4, 1944 – February 19, 2023) was an American actor, comedian, and author. [2] He was best known for his role as BPD Detective, NYPD Detective/sergeant and investigator John Munch, [3] whom he portrayed for 23 years in the NBC police drama series Homicide: Life on the Street, [4] Law & Order: Special Victims Unit [3] and several guest appearances on other series.
Isabel Boyer Gillies (born February 9, 1970) is an American author and actress. She played Kathy Stabler, Elliot Stabler's wife in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.Her memoir Happens Every Day was a New York Times bestseller, and her most recent book is Cozy.
Wolf serves as creator and executive producer of the current Law & Order drama series from Wolf Entertainment and NBCUniversal Television – Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ((which as of September 5, 2024 is the longest-running scripted primetime drama, having aired 551 episodes, breaking the original Law & Order count of 456) now 501 ...
A Special Victims Unit (SVU) or Special Victims Division is a specialised division within some police departments. Detectives in a Special Victims Division typically investigate sexual crimes or non-sexual crimes whose victims require specialist handling such as children, the elderly , or disabled people .
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET on NBC. If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, please contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE ...
Along with his main cast roles on Homicide and SVU, Munch, or Belzer portraying a parody of the role, has also appeared as a character in other TV series, movies, talk shows, albums and comic books: Homicide: Life on the Street—119 out of 122 episodes in the series; Law & Order: Special Victims Unit—242 out of 325 episodes in the series
The first season of the crime drama television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, premiered on September 20, 1999 on NBC and concluded on May 19, 2000. Created by Dick Wolf, it is the first spin-off of Law & Order and follows the detectives of a fictionalized version of the New York City Police Department's Special Victims Unit, which investigates sexually based offenses.