- Jerry Orbach
Jerome Bernard Orbach was an American actor best known for his starring role as Det. Lennie Briscoe in the "Law & Order" television series and for his musical theater roles.
- Bebe Neuwirth
Bebe Neuwirth (born December 31, 1958) is an Emmy Award and Tony Award-winning American theater, television, and film actress. She was born Beatrice Neuwirth to Jewish American parents Lee, a mathematician, and Sydney Anne, an artist, in Princeton, New Jersey. She began to study dance at the age of five, and chose it as her field of concentration when she attended Juilliard in New York City in 1976 and 1977.
- Amy Carlson
Amy Lynn Carlson (born July 7, 1968 in Glen Ellyn, Illinois) is an American actress best known for playing Josie Watts on "Another World" and Alex Taylor on "Third Watch." Most recently, she played Kelly Gaffney on the short-lived NBC courtroom drama, "Law & Order: Trial by Jury".
- Kirk Acevedo
Kirk Acevedo (born November 27, 1974 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor of Puerto Rican and Chinese descent, best known for his performances as Miguel Alvarez in "Oz" and Hector Salazar in "Law & Order: Trial by Jury".
- Scott Cohen
Scott Cohen (born December 19, 1964 in New York) is an American actor. Cohen is most widely known for his role as Wolf in the 2000 NBC mini-series "The 10th Kingdom", his recurring role as Max Medina on the WB hit TV Series "Gilmore Girls" and his role as Josh in the indie romantic flick Kissing Jessica Stein. It was a course in clowning that led to the start of his acting career.
- Christopher Meloni
Christopher Peter Meloni (born on April 2, 1961) is an American Emmy-nominated actor known for his near opposite roles as the protective and committed Det. Elliot Stabler on the NBC drama series "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit", and as the bisexual serial killer Chris Keller on HBO's "Oz".
- Sam Waterston
Samuel Atkinson Waterston (born November 15 1940) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor noted particularly for his portrayal of Jack McCoy on the long-running NBC television series "Law & Order". He has also appeared in many feature films.
- Diane Neal
Diane Neal (born November 17, 1975 in Alexandria, Virginia) is an American actress widely known for her role as Casey Novak on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit". She had previously appeared in the Season Three episode "Ridicule" as high-powered female rapist Amelia Chase before joining the main cast as their ADA. Neal's family moved to Colorado when she was young. She attended college as a pre-medical major but dropped out to pursue a modeling career.
- Angela Lansbury
Angela Lansbury CBE (born October 16, 1925) is a four-time Tony-winning, six-time Golden Globe-winning, three-time Oscar-nominated, and eighteen-time Emmy-nominated English actress. Her multi-faceted career has spanned seven decades and she is well-known for her roles on both stage and screen. <br>
- Mariska Hargitay
Mariska Magdolna Hargitay (born January 23, 1964) is a Golden Globe- and Emmy Award- winning American actress known for her role as Det. Olivia Benson on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit".
- Bruce Davison
Bruce Davison (born June 28, 1946) is an American actor and filmmaker.
- Jesse L. Martin
notable role =<br>Det. Ed Green in "Law & Orderbr> Jesse Lamont Martin (born Jesse Lamont Watkins, January 18, 1969) is an American theatre, film, and television actor, best known for his roles as Tom Collins in "Rent" and as Det. Ed Green in the NBC series "Law & Order
- Wendell Pierce
Wendell Pierce (b. December 8, 1962, in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American actor. He is most notable for appearance on the HBO program "The Wire" as Detective Bunk Moreland. He also played a crooked policeman on Third Watch named Conrad "Candyman" Jones. An interview with him is part of Spike Lee's 2006 HBO documentary "When the Levees Broke", regarding the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He also appeared in Spike Lee's 1996 movie, "GET ON THE BUS"..
- Seth Gilliam
Seth Gilliam (November 5, 1968) is an American actor. He is most notable for appearances on the HBO programs "Oz" (as Clayton Hughes) and "The Wire" (as Ellis Carver). On both of these appearances, he co-starred with Lance Reddick and J.D. Williams. He was directly cast alongside both of these actors. His feature film credits include Private Sugar Watkins in the 1997 action movie "Starship Troopers".
- Adam Lavorgna
Adam LaVorgna (born March 1,1981) is an American actor. LaVorgna was born near New Haven in North Branford, Connecticut. Raised with his three siblings in North Branford, LaVorgna has been appearing on television and film since the early age of three when he first appeared on the daytime series "As the World Turns".
- Fred Thompson
Frederick Dalton "Fred" Thompson (born August 19 1942) is an American lawyer, lobbyist, and character actor. He represented Tennessee as a Republican in the U.S. Senate from 1994 thru 2003. Thompson resides in McLean, Virginia near Washington D.C. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Visiting Fellow with the American Enterprise Institute, specializing in national security and intelligence. As an actor, Thompson has performed in film and on television.
- Leslie Hendrix
Leslie Hendrix is an American actress. She is best known for playing the role of Elizabeth Rodgers on all four "Law & Order" series ("Law & Order", "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit", "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" and "Law & Order: Trial by Jury").
- Candice Bergen
Candice Patricia Bergen (born May 9, 1946) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning American actress and former fashion model, primarily for her roles in sitcoms and television. She is currently best known for her starring role on the television situation comedy "Murphy Brown", and as William Shatner's legal partner, Shirley Schmidt, on the ABC hit dramedy, "Boston Legal".
- Treach Criss
Treach is the stage name of Anthony Criss (born December 2, 1970), an American rapper and actor. He is best known as the lead rapper of the hip hop group Naughty by Nature. His chiseled physique has helped him land roles in crime films, television crime dramas and as a leading man in romance films. Criss was born in East Orange, New Jersey. He was married to Sandy Denton (Pepa of the rap group Salt-n-Pepa), but they divorced in 2001.
- S. Epatha Merkerson
Sharon Epatha Merkerson (born November 28, 1952) is a Tony Award-nominated and Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and Emmy Award-winning American actress. She is known for her roles as Reba the Mail Lady on "Pee Wee's Playhouse" in the 1980s, and as the no-nonsense supervisor, Lt. Anita Van Buren (1993-present) on the long-running television crime drama "Law & Order", in the 1990s. At present she has been on the show longer than any other cast member.
- Giancarlo Esposito
Giancarlo Esposito (born April 26, 1958) is a Danish-born American film and television actor. Born in Denmark to an Italian father and an African-American mother, Esposito lived in Europe, New York, and Cleveland until the family settled in Manhattan when he was six. At the age of ten he made his Broadway debut in the short-lived "Maggie Flynn". Additional New York theatre credits include "The Me Nobody Knows", "Lost in the Stars", "Seesaw", …
- Annabella Sciorra
Annabella Gloria Philomena Sciorra (born March 24, 1964) is an American film and stage actress who has starred in a number of films and television series.
- Carey Lowell
"Carey Lowell" (born February 11, 1961 in Huntington, New York) is an American actress and a Bond girl starring in 1989's "Licence to Kill" with Timothy Dalton. Lowell spent much of her childhood traveling with her father, who was a geologist. Immediately after high school, she was signed by the Ford modeling agency. She would model for such clients as Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein before turning to acting.
- Aasif Mandvi
Aasif Mandvi (born March 5 1966, Mumbai, India, formerly Bombay) is an Indian American actor. He began appearing as an occasional correspondent on "The Daily Show" on August 9 2006. On March 12, 2007, he was promoted to a regular correspondent. Mandvi played the title role in Merchant Ivory Productions' film "The Mystic Masseur" and is also the recipient of an Obie Award for his critically acclaimed one-man show "Sakina's Restaurant".
- Nestor Serrano
Nestor Serrano (b. November 5, 1955, Bronx, New York) is a Hispanic-American film and television actor. Serrano began his acting career in off-Broadway plays in the late 1970s; by the 1980s he had shared the stage with Robert De Niro, Wesley Snipes, Matt Dillon and Ving Rhames. His first film was the 1986 Tom Hanks comedy "The Money Pit". Since then, he has appeared in supporting roles in films such as "Lethal Weapon 2", "The Negotiator", …
- William Sadler
William Sadler (born April 13, 1950) is an American actor.
- Elisabeth Moss
Elisabeth Moss (born October 15 1983) is an American actress best known for her portrayal of first daughter Zoey Bartlet on the television serial drama "The West Wing". She had the role of Christina on the television serial drama "Invasion". Moss has also appeared in several commercials, including an ad for Secret brand deodorant and one for Excedrin Migraine. Moss is a member of the Church of Scientology.
- Carolyn McCormick
Carolyn McCormick (born September 19, 1959 in Midland, Texas) is an American actress. She graduated from Williams College in 1981 with a B.A. in theatre. She also holds an M.F.A. from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. She has worked in television, movies, theatre and voice acting. Her "break" into television was on "Spenser: For Hire" in the 1980s. The role she would become best known for was as Dr. Elizabeth Olivet on "Law & Order".
- Dennis Farina
Dennis Farina (born February 29, 1944) is an American film and television actor. He is a character actor, often typecast as a mobster or police.
- Lorraine Bracco
Lorraine Bracco , of Italian-American father and British mother, grew up in Hicksville, near New York. Top model, France's Jean Paul Gaultier and Wilhelmina, in the last year the College was, paradoxically, voted among the most ugly girls of his course [without source].
- Aaron Lohr
Aaron Lohr (born April 2, 1976) is an American actor and singer. He is best-known for his role as one of the "Bash Brothers" in "The Mighty Ducks" movies. He has also appeared in the movie-musicals "Newsies" he loves and "Rent", in which he played an AIDS patient and sang the songs "Life Support" and "Will I?". He has also been seen as Matt in "Bare, …
- Ron Silver
Ron Silver (born July 2 1946) is an American actor, director, and producer. Born in New York City, Silver was raised in the Lower East Side of Manhattan and attended Stuyvesant High School. He went on to graduate from the University at Buffalo with a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and Chinese, and received a Master's Degree in Chinese History from St. John's University in New York and the College of Chinese Culture in Taiwan.
- Peter Coyote
Peter Coyote (born October 10, 1941) is an American actor and author who has appeared in over 70 films and has narrated many documentaries and audio books. His voice work includes narrating the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics. He has also served as an announcer during Oscar telecasts. He is the cofounder, with Emmett Grogan, of the San Francisco Diggers and a veteran of the San Francisco Mime Troupe.
- Jeffrey Demunn
Jeffrey DeMunn (born April 25, 1947 in Buffalo, New York) is an American theatre, film and television actor. DeMunn graduated from Union College with a Bachelor of Arts in English. He moved to England in the early 1970s, receiving theatrical training at the Old Vic Theatre. When he returned to the States, he performed in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of "King Lear" and several off-Broadway productions, including "Bent", …
- Alfred Molina
Alfred Molina (born May 24, 1953) is an English actor of both the stage and screen. Molina is known for his portrayal of the villain Doctor Octopus in "Spider-Man 2" as well as playing key roles in "Chocolat" and "The Da Vinci Code".
- Rebecca Mader
Rebecca Mader (born 1979 in Coldham's Lane, Cambridge, England) is an actress who has appeared on several American television series. She played the role of Morgan Gordon on "All My Children" for about a dozen episodes, and in the fall of 2006 was a regular cast member of the Fox legal drama, "Justice". Mader worked as a model in New York for a year, appearing in adverts for L'Oreal, Colgate and Wella Hair. She is married to Joe Arongino.
- John Doman
John Doman (born 9 January 1945 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actor. He has a starring role in the HBO series, "The Wire", as Deputy Police Commissioner William Rawls. He also had a cameo as a child molester pretending to be a cop in the 2003 film "Mystic River". He guest starred in the "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" episode "Shakaar".
- Philip Casnoff
Philip Casnoff (born August 3, 1953 in Philadelphia) is an American actor, known mainly from TV movies and series' roles.
- Peter Gerety
Peter Gerety (born May 17, 1940) is an American actor. Gerety began acting while a student at Boston University, participating in productions at the Charles Playhouse. In 1965, he joined the Trinity Square Repertory Company, a theater troupe in Providence, Rhode Island where he appeared in over 125 productions. Gerety is a veteran of stage, screen and television. In early 1992, he performed to critical acclaim on Broadway in "Conversations with My Father", …
- Sherri Saum
Sherri M. Saum (born on October 1 1974 in Dayton, Ohio) is an American Daytime Emmy nominated actress. Her first major role in a TV series, was in the soap opera "Sunset Beach" (1997-1998). Later she starred in another soap "One Life to Live", from 2001 to 2003, as Keri Reynolds. She also appeared on "Girlfriends" for one episode.