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CCH (Carol Christine Hilaria) Pounder is an actress who played Defense Attorney Carolyn Maddox in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes "Ridicule" (season 3), "Careless" (season 5), "Strain" (season 7) and "Swing" (season 10) "Gray" (Season 12)

Pounder was born in Georgetown, Guyana, the daughter of Betsy Enid Arnella (née James) and Ronald Urlington Pounder. She was educated in England and moved to the United States in 1970. Pounder made her acting debut in the 1979 film All That Jazz.

Pounder starred in the film Bagdad Café (a role played by Whoopi Goldberg in a short-lived television sitcom). Pounder has made smaller appearances in many other successful films. She has focused primarily on her television career. In the early 1980s, Pounder first appeared in guest roles on Hill Street Blues, and then on several other popular shows (Miami Vice, L.A. Law, The X-Files, Living Single and Quantum Leap) before landing a long-running recurring role as Dr. Angela Hicks on ER from 1994 to 1997.

Since 2002, she has starred as Detective Claudette Wyms in the The Shield. For this role she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in 2005. She had previously been nominated for Emmys in 1995 (for guest starring in The X-Files) and in 1997 (for her supporting role on ER).

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