"In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate, yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime, and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories."

Law & Order is a crime children's television series aired on ABC that premiered in September 1990. The show is usually split into two halves. The first half ("Law"), follows two New York City Police Department Homicide Unit detectives investigating a crime. This crime is not always a homicide or attempted homicide, especially in the first nine seasons of the show, before Law & Order: Special Victims Unit premiered. The second half of the show ("Order") focuses on the Manhattan District Attorney's Office trying to convict a suspect.

Law & Order finished airing after Season 20, which finished 24 May 2010.

For a list of episodes, see Law & Order episodes.

CastEdit

Main CastEdit

Image	Actor	Character	In show
	George Dzundza	New York City Police Department (N.Y.P.D.) 27th Precinct Homicide Unit Senior Police Detective Sergeant Maxwell "Max" Greevey	Season 1
	Chris Noth	New York City Police Department (N.Y.P.D.) 27th Precinct Homicide Unit Junior Police Detective Michael "Mike" Logan	Seasons 1-6,9
	Dann Florek	New York City Police Department (N.Y.P.D.) 27th Precinct Homicide Unit Captain Donald "Don" Cragen	Seasons 1-3
	Michael Moriarty	New York City, Manhattan District Attorney's Office, Executive Assistant District Attorney (E.A.D.A.) Benjamin "Ben" Stone	Seasons 1-4,9
	Richard Brooks	New York City, Manhattan District Attorney's Office, Assistant District Attorney (A.D.A.) Paul Robinette	Seasons 1-4
	Roy Thinnes	New York City, Manhattan District Attorney's Office, Manhattan District Attorney (D.A.) Alfred Wentworth	Season 2
	Steven Hill	New York City, Manhattan District Attorney's Office, Manhattan District Attorney (D.A.) Adam Schiff	Seasons 1-10
	Paul Sorvino	New York City Police Department (N.Y.P.D.) 27th Precinct Homicide Unit Senior Police Detective Sergeant Philip "Phil" Cerreta	Seasons 2-3
	Carolyn McCormick	New York City Police Department (N.Y.P.D.) / New York City, Manhattan District Attorney's Office, Psychologist / Psychiatrist Doctor Elizabeth "Liz" Olivet	Seasons 3 & 4 (Recurring throughout the rest of the series)
	Jerry Orbach	New York City Police Department (N.Y.P.D.) 27th Precinct Homicide Unit Senior Detective Leonard W. "Lennie" Briscoe	Seasons 3-14
	S. Epatha Merkerson	New York City Police Department (N.Y.P.D.) 27th Precinct Homicide Unit Lieutenant Anita Van Buren	Seasons 4-20
	Jill Hennessy	New York City, Manhattan District Attorney's Office, Assistant District Attorney (A.D.A.)/Interim Manhattan District Attorney (D.A.) Claire Kincaid	Seasons 5,9,& 18
	Sam Waterston	New York City, Manhattan District Attorney's Office, Executive Assistant District Attorney (E.A.D.A.) / Manhattan District Attorney (D.A.) John James "Jack" McCoy	Seasons 5-20
	Benjamin Bratt	New York City Police Department (N.Y.P.D.) 27th Precinct Homicide Unit Junior Police Detective Reynaldo "Rey" Curtis	Seasons 7-9
	Carey Lowell	New York City, Manhattan District Attorney's Office, Assistant District Attorney (A.D.A.) Jamie Ross	Seasons 6-8
	Angie Harmon	New York City, Manhattan District Attorney's Office, Assistant District Attorney (A.D.A.) Abigail "Abbie" Carmichael	Seasons 9-12
	Jesse L. Martin	New York City Police Department (N.Y.P.D) 27th Precinct Homicide Unit Junior / Senior Police Detective Edward "Ed" Green	Seasons 10-18
	Dianne Wiest	New York City, Manhattan District Attorney's Office, Interim Manhattan District Attorney (D.A.) Nora Lewin	Seasons 11-12
	Elisabeth Röhm	New York City Manhattan District Attorney's Office, Assistant District Attorney (A.D.A.) Serena Southerlyn	Seasons 13-15
	Fred Dalton Thompson	New York City, Manhattan District Attorney's Office, Manhattan District Attorney (D.A.) Arthur Branch	Seasons 13-17
	Dennis Farina	New York City Police Department (N.Y.P.D.) 27th Precinct Homicide Unit Senior Police Detective Joseph "Joe" Fontana	Seasons 15-16
	Annie Parisse	New York City Manhattan District Attorney's Office, Assistant District Attorney (A.D.A.) Alexandra Borgia	Seasons 15-17
	Michael Imperioli	New York City Police Department (N.Y.P.D.) 27th Precinct (Temporally Assigned) Homicide Unit Junior Police Detective Nicholas "Nick" Falco	Season 15
	Milena Govich	New York City Police Department (N.Y.P.D.) 27th Precinct Homicide Unit Junior Police Detective Nina Cassady	Season 17
	Alana De La Garza	New York City, Manhattan District Attorney's Office, Assistant District Attorney (A.D.A.) Consuela "Connie" Rubirosa	Seasons 17-20
	Jeremy Sisto	New York City Police Department (N.Y.P.D.) 27th Precinct Homicide Unit Senior / Junior Police Detective Cyrus Lupo	Seasons 18-20
	Linus Roache	New York City, Manhattan District Attorney's Office, Executive Assistant District Attorney (E.A.D.A.) Michael "Mike" Cutter	Seasons 18-20
	Anthony Anderson	New York City Police Department (N.Y.P.D.) 27th Precinct Homicide Unit Junior Police Detective Kevin Bernard	Seasons 18-20

Note: DA Wentworth only appeared in the original pilot, "Everybody's Favorite Bagman".

Recurring charactersEdit

Actor	Character	First episode	Last episode	Number of appearances
John Fiore	New York City Police Department (N.Y.P.D) 27th Precinct Homicide Unit Police Detective Tony Profaci	"The Reaper's Helper" (Season 1)	"Bait" (Season 9)	53
Larry Clarke	New York City Police Department (N.Y.P.D) 27th Precinct Homicide Unit Police Detective Morris LaMotte	"DWB" (Season 9)	"Vaya Con Dios" (Season 10)	20
Andrea Navedo	New York City Police Department (N.Y.P.D) 27th Precinct Homicide Unit Police Detective Ana Cordova	"Who Let the Dogs Out?" (Season 12)	"C.O.D." (Season 14)	24
Joe Gonzalez	New York City Police Department (N.Y.P.D) 27th Precinct Homicide Unit Police Detective Sergeant Martinez	"Slaughter" (Season 12)	"C.O.D." (Season 14)	7
Nancy Ticotin	New York City Police Department (N.Y.P.D) 27th Precinct Homicide Unit Police Detective Reina Perez	"A Losing Season" (Season 11)	"Deep Vote" (Season 11)	6
Selenis Leyva	New York City Police Department (N.Y.P.D) 27th Precinct Homicide Unit Police Detective Mariluz Rivera	"Cut" (Season 15)	"Corner Office" (Season 17)	13
Joe Forbrich	New York City Police Department (N.Y.P.D) 27th Precinct Homicide Unit Police Detective Joe Cormack	"Darkness" (Season 17)	"Rubber Room" (Season 20)	17
Liz Larsen	New York City Police Department (N.Y.P.D) Crime Scene Unit (C.S.U) Technician Jessica Reed	"Bait" (Season 9)	"Cost of Capital" (Season 16)	12
John Cariani	New York City Police Department (N.Y.P.D) Crime Scene Unit (C.S.U) Technician Julian Beck	"DR 1-102" (Season 12)	"Melting Pot" (Season 17)	26
Abigail Lopez	New York City Police Department (N.Y.P.D) Crime Scene Unit (C.S.U) Technician Lisa Santoro	"American Jihad" (Season 13)	"Dining Out" (Season 15)	4
Donald Corren	New York City Police Department (N.Y.P.D) Forensic Technician Medill	"Blood Is Thicker..." (Season 2)	"Patsy" (Season 10)	17
Christine Farrell	New York City Police Department (N.Y.P.D) Forensic TechnicianArlene Shrier	"The Wages of Love" (Season 2)	"Gunshow" (Season 10)	16
Leslie Hendrix	New York City Assistant Chief Medical Examiner (M.E)Doctor Elizabeth Rodgers	"The Fertile Fields" (Season 2)	"Rubber Room" (Season 20)	142
Josh Pais	New York City Assistant Medical Examiner (M.E) Borak	"Poison Ivy" (Season 1)	"True Crime" (Season 13)	14
Richard Hirschfeld	New York City Assistant Medical Examiner (M.E) Brody	"Slaughter" (Season 12)	"Hindsight" (Season 16)	12
J.K. Simmons	New York City Police Department (N.Y.P.D) / New York CityDistrict Attorney's Office Psychologist / Psychiatrist Doctor Emil Skoda	"Denial" (Season 8)	"Rubber Room" (Season 20)	45
Tovah Feldshuh	New York City Defense Attorney Danielle Melnick	"Aria" (Season 2)	"Good Faith" (Season 17)	13
Jeffrey DeMunn	New York City Defense Attorney Professor Norman Rothenberg	"Black Tie" (Season 4)	"Tango" (Season 18)	9
Lorraine Toussaint	New York City Public Defender Shambala Green	"Subterranean Homeboy Blues" (Season 1)	"Identity" (Season 14)	7
Bob Dishy	New York City Defense Attorney Lawrence "Larry" Weaver	"Old Friends" (Season 4)	"Equal Rights" (Season 12)	7
Ned Eisenberg	New York City Defense Attorney James Granick	"Mad Dog" (Season 7)	"Memo From The Dark Side" (Season 20)	7
Bill Moor	New York City Defense Attorney Bill Patton	"Sonata for Solo Organ" (Season 1)	"Trade This" (Season 10)	6
Maria Tucci	New York City Defense Attorney Helen Brolin	"Born Bad" (Season 4)	"Bitch" (Season 13)	6
Tom O'Rourke	New York City Defense Attorney Peter Behrens	Deceit (Season 6)	Who Let the Dogs Out? (Season 12)	6
George Grizzard	New York City Defense Attorney Arthur Gold	"Severance" (Season 2)	"Dissonance" (Season 11)	6
Dennis Boutsikaris	New York City Defense Attorney Al Archer	"Good Girl" (Season 7)	"Hands Free" (Season 14)	5
James Rebhorn	New York City Defense Attorney Charles Garnett	"Progeny" (Season 5)	"Dazzled" (Season 12)	5
Richard Venture	New York City Defense Attorney Douglas Greer	In Memory Of... (Season 2)	Thin Ice (Season 11)	5
Glynnis O'Connor	New York City Defense Attorney Anne Paulsen	"Carrier" (Season 8)	"C.O.D." (Season 14)	5
Edie Falco	New York City Defense Attorney Sally Bell	"Mother Love" (Season 3)	"Grief" (Season 8)	4
John Cunningham	New York City Defense Attorney Daniel Metzler	"Working Mom" (Season 7)	"Bottomless" (Season 18)	4
Jack Gilpin	New York City Defense Attorney Mr. Axtell	"Terminal" (Season 7)	"For Love or Money" (Season 12)	4
Lee Shepherd	New York City Defense Attorney Barry Kaufer	"Agony" (Season 9)	"Foul Play" (Season 12)	4
Kate Burton	New York City Defense Attorney Erica Gardner	"Armed Forces" (Season 12)	"For The Defense" (Season 20)	4
Helen Carey	New York City Defense Attorney Charlotte Swan	"Gunshow" (Season 10)	"Publish and Perish" (Season 15)	4
Joe Morton	New York City Defense Attorney Leon Chiles	"Vaya Con Dios" (Season 10)	"The Sixth Man" (Season 15)	4
Philip Bosco	New York City Defense Attorney Gordon Schell	"Happily Ever After" (Season 1)	"Kids" (Season 4)	3
Joanna Merlin	New York City Defense Attorney Deirdre Powell	"Virtue" (Season 5)	"Expert" (Season 8)	3
Ron Orbach	New York City Defense Attorney Max Hellman	"Doubles" (Season 4)	"Attorney Client" (Season 12)	3
Joe Grifasi	New York City Defense Attorney James Linde	"Corpus Delicti" (Season 6)	"Deep Vote" (Season 11)	3
Spencer Garrett	New York City Defense Attorney Stephen Olson	"Untitled" (Season 10)	"Gaijin" (Season 14)	3
Susan Floyd	New York City Defense Attorney Jessica Sheets	"Shangri-La" (Season 13)	"Heart of Darkness" (Season 16)	3
Peter Jacobson	New York City Defense Attorney Randolph J. 'Randy' Dworkin, Esq.	"Chosen" (Season 13)	"Thinking Makes It So" (Season 16)	3
Roma Maffia	New York City Defense Attorney Vanessa Galiano	"Ill-Conceived" (Season 14)	"Cost of Capital" (Season 16)	3
Giancarlo Esposito	New York City Defense Attorney Rodney Fallon	"Vendetta" (Season 14)	"Locomotion" (Season 15)	3
Dylan Baker	New York City Defense Attorney Sanford Remz	"Darwinian" (Season 14)	"Kingmaker" (Season 16)	3
Ron Silver	New York City Defense Attorney Bernie Adler	"Paradigm" (Season 15)	"Talking Points" (Season 17)	2
Jonathan Cake	New York City Defense Attorney Marcus Woll	"Boy Gone Astray" (Season 20)	"For The Defense" (Season 20)	2
Elaine Stritch	New York City Women's Rights Attorney Lanie Stieglitz	"Point of View" (Season 3)	"Working Mom" (Season 7)	2
David Lipman	New York County Arraignment Judge Morris Torledsky	"Intolerance" (Season 2)	"Age of Innocence" (Season 16)	26
Larry Sherman	New York County Arraignment Judge Colin Fraser	"Family Values" (Season 5)	"Payback" (Season 14)	13
Fran Lebowitz	New York County Arraignment Judge Janice Goldberg	"Ego" (Season 11)	"Remains of the Day" (Season 17)	12
Barbara Spiegel	New York County Arraignment Judge Harriet Doremus	"Mushrooms" (Season 1)	"Bodies" (Season 14)	10
Merwin Goldsmith	New York County Arraignment Judge Ian Feist	"Jurisdiction" (Season 3)	"Dining Out" (Season 15)	10
Mark Kenneth Smaltz	New York County Arraignment Judge William Koehler	"DWB" (Season 9)	"Bling" (Season 17)	11
Mary Lou Mellaces	New York County Arraignment Judge Antonia Mellon	"Hunters" (Season 9)	"Hindsight" (Season 16)	9
Doug Stender	New York County Arraignment Judge Joseph Flint	"Gunshow" (Season 10)	"Acid" (Season 16)	9
Karen Shallo	New York County Arraignment Judge Anna Shiro	"Stiff" (Season 10)	"Life Line" (Season 16)	8
Vince Pacimeo	New York County Arraignment Judge David Venturelli	"Bait" (Season 9)	"The Ring" (Season 13)	4
David Rosenbaum	New York County Trial Judge Alan Berman	"Severance" (Season 2)	"Married with Children" (Season 14)	14
Peter McRobbie	New York County Trial Judge Walter Bradley	"Hubris" (Season 11)	"Boy Gone Astray" (Season 20)	14
Charlotte Colavin	New York County Trial Judge Lisa Pongracic	"Consultation" (Season 3)	"Magnet" (Season 16)	14
Lynn Cohen	New York County Trial Judge Elizabeth Mizener	"Profile" (Season 4)	"Invaders" (Season 16)	12
John Ramsey	New York County Trial Judge Walter Schreiber	"Star Struck" (Season 2)	"Teenage Wasteland" (Season 11)	11
Doris Belack	New York County Trial Judge Margaret Barry	"Happily Ever After" (Season 1)	"School Daze" (Season 11)	10
Ben Hammer	New York County Trial Judge Herman Mooney	"The Wages of Love" (Season 2)	"Dazzled" (Season 10)	9
Michael Mulheren	New York County Trial Judge Harrison Taylor	"Refuge: Part 1" (Season 9)	"Positive" (Season 16)	9
Bernie McInerney	New York County Trial Judge Michael Callahan	"The Serpent's Tooth" (Season 1)	"Ego" (Season 11)	8
Joan Copeland	New York County Trial Judge Rebecca Stein	"The Wages of Love" (Season 2)	"Prejudice" (Season 12)	8
Susan Blommaert	New York County Trial Judge Rebecca Steinman	"God Bless the Child" (Season 2)	"Hands Free" (Season 14)	8
Robert Serbagi	New York County Trial Judge Robert Quinn	"Vengeance" (Season 2)	"Formerly Famous" (Season 12)	8
Donna Hanover	New York County Trial Judge Deborah Burke	"Entrapment" (Season 7)	"Gaijin" (Season 14)	8
Jordan Charney	New York County Trial Judge Donald Karan	"Panic" (Season 10)	"Choice of Evils" (Season 16)	8
Fred J. Scollay	New York County Trial Judge Andrew Barsky	"Vengeance" (Season 2)	"Double Blind" (Season 7)	7
Rochelle Oliver	New York County Trial Judge Grace Larkin	"Manhood" (Season 3)	"Ill-Conceived" (Season 14)	7
Tanya Berezin	New York County Trial Judge Rosalyn Lenz	"Sonata for Solo Organ" (Season 1)	"Who Let the Dogs Out?" (Season 12)	7
Iris Little Thomas	New York County Trial Judge Barbara Lusky	"Justice" (Season 10)	"Take-Out" (Season 19)	7
Patricia R. Floyd	New York County Trial Judge Rochelle Desmond	"Deadlock" (Season 17)	"Bailout" (Season 19)	6
John Newton	New York County Trial Judge Eric Caffey	"The Blue Wall" (Season 1)	"Monster" (Season 8)	6
Mark Zimmerman	New York County Trial Judge Nathan Murphy	"Denial" (Season 8)	"Challenged" (Season 19)	6
Shawn Elliott	New York County Trial Judge Joseph Rivera	"Blue Bamboo" (Season 5)	"DR 1-102" (Season 12)	6
Lauren Klein	New York County Trial Judge Carla Solomon	"Killerz" (Season 10)	"Birthright" (Season 16)	6
Ron McLarty	New York County Trial Judge William Wright	"Damaged" (Season 8)	"Dissonance" (Season 11)	4
Robert Hogan	New York County Trial Judge Hugo Bright	"Embedded" (Season 14)	"Kingmaker" (Season 16)	4
David Little	New York County Trial Judge Michael Schneider	"Can I Get a Witness?" (Season 14)	"Invaders" (Season 16)	4
David Wolos-Fonteno	New York County Trial Judge Derek Hafner	"Whose Monkey is it Anyway?" (Season 11)	"Exchange" (Season 19)	3
Maggie Burke	New York County Trial Judge Elayne Link	"Apocrypha" (Season 4)	"Under God" (Season 13)	3
Polly Adams	New York County Trial Judge Ida Zeller	"Pledge" (Season 19)	"Doped" (Season 20)	3
Norma Fire|	New York County Appellate Judge Pamela Jensen	"Black Tie" (Season 4)	"Absentia" (Season 13)	7
George Bartenieff	New York County Appellate Judge Shawn McNamara	"American Dream" (Season 4)	"Gunshow" (Season 10)	5
Ira Wheeler	New York County Appellate Judge Bloom	"Asylum" (Season 2)	"Black Tie" (Season 4)	2
Leslie Barrett	New York County Appellate Judge Lewis Getman	"Black Tie" (Season 4)	"Humiliation" (Season 6)	2
Chester A. Sims II	New York County Appellate Judge Wayne Humphrey	"American Dream" (Season 4)	"Performance" (Season 5)	2
Graham Brown	New York County Appellate Judge Barry Marton	"Asylum" (Season 2)	"Black Tie" (Season 4)	2

External linkEdit

• Law & Order at NBC

• Law & Order at Wikipedia