- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- Chris Noth
Christopher David Noth (born November 13 1954 in Madison, Wisconsin) is an actor in American film, stage and television. He is best known for two long-running television roles: as Det. Mike Logan on "Law & Order", and as "Mr. Big" on "Sex and the City". Noth (pronounced to rhyme with both) is a name which has its origins in the European area of Alsace-Lorraine (on the border of France and Germany), …
- 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.
- Milena Govich
Milena Govich is an American actress. She was born in Norman, Oklahoma, when both of her parents, Bruce and Marilyn Govich, were professors of music at the University of Oklahoma. Milena Govich followed her academic parents by graduating from both high school and college (University of Central Oklahoma (UCO)) as a valedictorian of her class. Govich left UCO with a double-degree in Performance and Pre-medical studies, and minored in Dance and Violin.
- Angie Harmon
Angela Michelle Harmon Sehorn (born August 10, 1972) is an American fashion model and television/film actress. She became a well-known model in the 1990s and developed a career as a television star after roles on "Baywatch Nights" and "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.
- 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".
- Alana De La Garza
Alana de la Garza (born June 18, 1976) is an American actress. She was born in Columbus, Ohio to a Mexican-American father and an Irish-American mother. She was raised in El Paso, Texas. She won the "Miss Photogenic" title in the Miss El Paso Teen USA local beauty pageant. She then became a special-needs teacher and enrolled at The University of Texas, studying physical therapy and social work. Upon graduating, she landed some small roles while living in Orlando, Florida, …
- Michael Moriarty
Michael Moriarty (born April 5, 1941) is a Tony and Emmy-winning American actor. He is known for his role as Ben Stone on the long running TV series "Law & Order".
- Benjamin Bratt
Benjamin Bratt ... Detective Tom Lone
- Dann Florek
Dann Florek (born May 1, 1950 in Flat Rock, Michigan) is an American actor and director. Florek worked his way up from the theatre into supporting roles in such diverse '80's films as "Sweet Liberty", "Moon Over Parador", and "Angel Heart". After a brief stint as the boring husband of Susan Ruttan on NBC's hit drama "L.A. Law", Florek co-starred in the NBC crime drama "Law & Order" as Capt. Don Cragen.
- Jill Hennessy
Jillian Noel Hennessy (born November 25, 1968) is a Canadian actress, known for her television roles on "Law & Order" and "Crossing Jordan".
- Steven Hill
Steven Hill is an American film and television actor who was a founding member of Lee Strasberg's Actor's Studio. He is best known as Adam Schiff in the NBC TV drama series "Law & Order", a part that he played for ten seasons (1990–2000). At the time of his departure, he was the longest-serving cast member. After a four-year hitch with the Naval Reserve, Hill made his first New York stage appearance in Ben Hecht's "A Flag is Born" (1946), …
- George Dzundza
George Dzundza (pronounced "ZUHN-zuh) (born July 19, 1945) is an American actor known for his role as Sgt. Max Greevey in the first season of the TV crime drama "Law & Order".
- Richard Brooks
Richard L. Brooks (born 1962) is an African-American actor, singer, and director. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Brooks studied acting, dance, and voice work at Interlochen Academy of Arts in Michigan. Later, he moved to New York City and was a student of the Circle in the Square Professional Theater School and performed in the Eugene O'Neill Theater Conference production of August Wilson's "Fences".
- 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.
- Paul Sorvino
Paul Anthony Sorvino (born April 13, 1939) is an American character actor whose career has largely been the portrayal of authority figures, both as legal enforcer and criminal, in television, stage, and film.
- Annie Parisse
Anne Marie Cancelmi (born July 31, 1976), known as Annie Parisse, is an American television and theater actress best known for playing Alexandra Borgia on the television drama "Law & Order", a role she played from 2005 until 2006 in 34 episodes as well as Julia Lindsey Snyder from the daytime soap opera As The World Turns. Before taking the role, Parisse guest-starred on shows such as "Big Apple", "Third Watch", and "Friends".
- Dianne Wiest
Dianne Wiest (born March 28, 1948) is a double Academy Award-winning, Golden Globe Award-winning, Emmy Award-winning and BAFTA-nominated American actress. She has enjoyed a successful career on stage, television, and film, and has received several awards in her career.
- Rudy Giuliani
Rudolph William Louis "Rudy" Giuliani (born May 28, 1944) is an American lawyer, businessman, and politician from the state of New York. Formerly Mayor of New York City Giuliani is currently seeking the Republican nomination for President. A Democrat and Independent in the 1970s, and a Republican from the 1980s onward, Giuliani served in the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, eventually becoming U.S. Attorney.
- 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".
- Eric Bogosian
Frequently mislabeled as a performance artist, Eric Bogosian is a writer and an actor known for his comedic monologues and social commentary. Born on the East Coast and educated in the Midwest, he wrote and performed numerous one-man shows around New York during the late '70s and early '80s. After doing shows in art spaces like The Kitchen, he eventually had his solo work Fun House committed to video. The 1987 production was taped in front of a live audience.
- 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".
- Ice T
Tracy Marrow (born February 16, 1958), better known by stage name Ice-T, is an American rapper, rock musician, author, and actor. He was instrumental in creating gangsta rap and rapcore. Much of his music is politically oriented, like that of Public Enemy, although this has declined with time. Since 2000, he has played the role of Det. Fin Tutuola on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit". As of 2007, Marrow resides in North Bergen, New Jersey.
- Michael Imperioli
James Michael Imperioli (born March 26, 1966 in Mount Vernon, New York), commonly known as Michael Imperioli, is an Emmy-Award winning Italian-American actor who is best known for his role as Christopher Moltisanti on "The Sopranos". He also appears as Det. Ed Green's temporary replacement, Det. Nick Falco, in the popular TV drama series "Law & Order". In addition to his role on "The Sopranos", …
- Tovah Feldshuh
Tovah Feldshuh (born December 27 1952) is an award-winning American actress, singer, and playwright. Born Terry Sue Feldshuh to a Jewish family in New York City, she was raised in an affluent community in Westchester County and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. She started her career under British director Michael Langham at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, where she was awarded the McKnight Fellowship in Acting.
- Julianne Nicholson
Julianne Nicholson (born July 1, 1971, Medford, Massachusetts) is an American actress.
- 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").
- Philip Bosco
Philip Bosco (born September 26 1930) is a Tony Award-winning American actor. New Jersey-born Bosco began his career in Broadway theatre. He received a Tony Award nomination for his debut in "The Rape of the Belt" in 1960 and spent the next three decades supporting major stars in classic revivals like "Cyrano de Bergerac", "King Lear," and "Twelfth Night." His specialty was George Bernard Shaw, …
- J. K. Simmons
Jonathan Kimble Simmons (born January 9, 1955) is an American character actor.
- Courtney B. Vance
Courtney B. Vance (born March 12, 1960) is an American actor. He formerly starred as a regular in the NBC television series "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" as Ron Carver. Vance was born in Detroit, Michigan. He attended Detroit Country Day School, a fee-paying university-preparatory school, and later graduated from Harvard with a bachelor of arts degree and the Yale School of Drama with a Master of Fine Arts degree.
- Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21, 1948) is an American actor. Jackson came to fame in the early 1990s, after a series of well-reviewed performances, and has since become a major film star and cultural icon, having appeared in a large number of high-grossing films. Jackson is currently working on seven films that will debut between 2007 and 2009. In motion pictures that feature him as a leading actor or supporting co-star, …
- Michael Bloomberg
Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born 14 February 1942) is an American businessman, philanthropist, and the founder of Bloomberg L.P., currently serving as the Mayor of New York City. He was a general partner at Salomon Brothers before founding the financial software service company in 1981. Although a lifelong Democrat, he ran on the Republican ballot and was elected mayor in 2001, and was reelected to a second term in 2005.
- Andre Braugher
Andre Braugher (born July 1, 1962) is a two-time Emmy Award-winning American actor. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of fiery detective Frank Pembleton on "Homicide: Life on the Street" from 1993 to 1998, and again in the 2000 made-for-TV movie.
- Donna Hanover
Donna Hanover (born February 13, 1950) is an American journalist, radio and television personality, and actress, who is the morning show co-host for WOR radio in New York City. She was First Lady of New York City as the then-wife of former New York City Mayor and 2008 U.S. presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani. She was born Donna Ann Kofnovec in Oakland, California into a Roman Catholic family.
- Fran Lebowitz
Fran Lebowitz is an American author. She was born Frances Ann Lebowitz on October 27 1950, in Morristown, New Jersey. Lebowitz is best known for her sardonic social commentary on American life through her New York sensibilities. Some reviewers have called her a modern day Dorothy Parker. After being expelled from high school and receiving a GED, Lebowitz worked many odd jobs before being hired by Andy Warhol as a columnist for "Interview".
- Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman (born July 23, 1967) is an Academy Award-winning American actor.