Peter Scanavino | ||
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Characters Dominick Carisi, Jr. Johnny Dubcek Jim Anderson Johnny Feist Robert Hassel | ||
Date of birth February 29, 1980 | ||
Place of birth Denver, Colorado | ||
IMDb profile |
Peter Scanavino is an American actor currently starring as ADA Dominick Carisi, Jr., in the long-running criminal drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. He also starred as Carisi in the Law & Order: Organized Crime episodes "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of", "With Many Names" and "The Last Supper" as well as the Law & Order episode "Gimme Shelter".
Before joining the main cast, Scanavino appeared as murder suspect Johnny Dubcek in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 14 episode "Monster's Legacy". He also appeared as Jim Anderson in the Law & Order Season 20 episode "Just a Girl in the World", Johnny Feist in the Law & Order: Criminal Intent Season 5 episode "Diamond Dogs", and as Robert Hassel in the Law & Order: Trial by Jury episode "Boys Will Be Boys".
Trivia[]
- He and his wife Lisha Bai have three children.
- Scanavino is the brother of artist David Scanavino.
- His family always supported the arts when he was growing up, and viewed the arts with high acclaim.
- He took a break from acting to pursue the culinary arts but ultimately returned to acting. His character of Carisi is depicted as being a good cook.
- He briefly attended college in Boston before dropping out after one year to move to NYC.
- The role of Carisi was written for Scanavino. Warren Leight was impressed by him after working together on an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent in 2005, and he wanted to create a recurring role for the actor.
- He decided to move to NYC after reading numerous books about the arts movements, theatre, and Marlon Brando.
- He was in the Broadway production of Shining City.
- With his appearance on Organized Crime, Scanavino and actor James Murtaugh were the first actors to have appeared in all five of the New York based Law & Order named shows, though as different characters in most of the other shows. (Fred Dalton Thompson had appeared as Arthur Branch in four of the Law & Order shows excluding Organized Crime, which premiered after he died. He also appeared as Branch on the show Conviction, which is also part of the Law & Order franchise. Carolyn McCormick has also appeared as Elizabeth Olivet on four of the Law & Order shows as well as New York Undercover.)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | |
Main Cast: Mariska Hargitay • Octavio Pisano • Peter Scanavino • Ice-T |