Law & Order SVU Flashcards
Captain Olivia Benson
Mariska Hargitay
Elliot Stabler
Christopher Meloni
Which number season of the show premiered in September 2019?
21
John Munch
Richard Belzer
Donald Cragen
Dann Florek
Odafin “Fin” Tutuola
Ice T
Melinda Warner
Tamara Tunie
Brian Cassidy
Dean Winters
This actor played Jason Whitaker, a lawyer whose client was accused of raping illegal immigrants.
Bradley Cooper
This Sex And The City actress played Janis Donovan, a mother falsely accused of abusing her daughter, but also faked Dissociative Identity Disorder to cover up a murder.
Cynthia Nixon
On the shows 200th episode, this actor played Merritt Rook, an anti-authoritarian activist that kidnaps Detective Benson.
Robin Williams
This actor plays a controversial newspaper columnist in Hargitay’s directorial debut during Season 15.
Alec Baldwin
This actress played Birdie Sulloway; a serial killer who married and murdered several men who she deemed unworthy to remain in this world.
Carol Burnett
This actor played lawyer Ken Turner, a master manipulator who had fathered at least 20 children, and made reproductive rights the hot topic of the moment down at the station.
John Stamos
This actress played Babs Duffy, the leader of lesbian rights group, LesBeStrong. Duffy accuses the SVU team of neglecting crimes against the lesbian community due to homophobia, before her own sexuality is outed.
Kathy Griffin
This actress portrays Ashlee Walker, a young and seemingly irresponsible mother. When Walker’s daughter dies of measles after being exposed to an unvaccinated child, the sick child’s family becomes a target for revenge.
Hilary Duff
This actor is unsettlingly convincing as Albert, a man who takes advantage of teen girls searching for their biological fathers online. After seducing the daughter of his ex-girlfriend, he finds himself in hot water.
James Vanderbeek
This actor played Dr. Richard Manning. His character was a doctor accused of a grim crime: murdering his wife, and then removing her unborn child from the womb.
John Ritter
This musician portrays a rape victim who is assaulted by a powerful TV producer and pressured into claiming it was consensual.
Miranda Lambert
In Season 16, this musician got to appear in the show as a dead body.
Questlove
This actor can be seen as a mentally ill homeless man who’s suspiciously befriended a 10-year-old girl. When the youngster ends up murdered, he becomes a key player in the investigation who decides to take matters into his own hands.
Jerry Lewis
This athlete played Chloe Spiers in the season five episode, “Brotherhood.” An unwitting internet porn victim, she’s merely a piece in a larger puzzle that leads the detectives to the unsavory inter-workings of a college fraternity.
Serena Williams
This actor played self-proclaimed psychic, Sebastian Ballentine. He claimed to know the details of a young girl’s death due to ESP, but it’s later revealed that he’s the rapist who murdered her—with the help of his wife, no less.
Martin Short
This actress played Janette Grayson, an overwhelmed caseworker who encouraged her employees to fabricate records of home visits to get out of work. Doing so meant she glossed over red flags in the case of a young girl who was being abused by her family.
Whoopi Goldberg
This actress’ appearances on SVU span over four separate seasons, throughout which she portrayed FBI agent Dana Lewis — a role that got her nominated for an Emmy. Lewis’ cases frequently overlapped with the special victim’s unit, but eventually she ran into some trouble of her own. In season 14 she’s convicted of committing jealous murder and sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Marcia Gay Harden
