Christopher Meloni

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Christopher Meloni
...as Detective Stabler (Season 8)
Character Detective Elliot Stabler
Date of birth 2 April 1961
Place of birth Washington D.C.
IMDb profile

Christopher Peter Meloni is an American Emmy Award-nominated actor best known for his role as Detective Elliot Stabler on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and as the bisexual serial killer Chris Keller on HBO's Oz.

Meloni made cameo appearances in the Law & Order episodes "Entiled" and "Fools For Love". He also appeared in the Law & Order: Trial by Jury episode "Day".

He wears a fake tattoo of the U.S. Marine Corps emblem (the eagle, globe, and anchor) on his arm for his role in Special Victims Unit ("Outcry" & "Underbelly") He has a real tattoo of a butterfly on his upper thigh, and a cubist representation of the crucifixion of Christ tattooed on his upper left arm.

From 1999 to 2003, Meloni appeared on Special Victims Unit and Oz simultaneously.

In 2006 Meloni was nominated for his first Emmy Award, in the category of Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, for his role as Elliot Stabler.

[edit] Trivia

• Meloni is one of four actors in SVU who also appeared in HBO's Oz, the other three being Dean Winters, B.D. Wong, and J.K. Simmons (another Oz regular, Kathryn Erbe, has starred on Law & Order: Criminal Intent since the show began in 2001).
• Meloni made an appearance in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas as the sarcastic, homosexual front desk clerk during the police convention scene.