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Law & Order is getting another spinoff, with NBC giving a straight-to-series order for Law & Order: For the Defense. This new series will, as always, be overseen by Law & Order creator Dick Wolf, but it will be Carol Mendelsohn, who previously wrote for CSI, that will serve as the series’ showrunner.
Jerry Orbach as Lennie Briscoe, Sam Waterstone as Jack McCoy, Mariska Hargitay as Olivia Benson and Christopher Meloni as Elliot Stabler. Law & Order: For the Defense could very well create a new iconic TV character, but just who will be playing them we still don’t know.
Law & Order: For the Defense looks at the other side of the equation, the defense lawyers tasked with proving their client’s innocence. The show will also take a broad look at the criminal justice system. “This new show is exciting for me personally,” said Wolf when Law & Order: For the Defense was picked up.
Now it will be great to play defense, and being able to do it with Carol is an honor and an opportunity for both of us to do television that hasn’t been done before.” The Law & Order franchise has always been one that uses real-life events to inspire some of its storytelling to stay as timely as possible.
New York's Mayor Rudy Giuliani makes a cameo appearance introducing Nora Lewin. Giuliani's wife, Donna Hanover, has made several appearances on the show as a judge. This episode appears to be based on the 1997 Janine Albury-Thomson case.
Megan Follows (born March 14, 1968 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actress who played Megan Parnell in the Law & Order season 11 premiere episode "Endurance".
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16 years oldMegan Follows, was 16 years old when she was chosen to play Anne, a role that earned her a 1986 and a 1988 Gemini Award for Best Performance by a Lead Actress.
Christopher PorterMegan Follows / Spouse (m. 1991–1996)Personal life. In 1991, Follows married Christopher David Porter, a Canadian gaffer and photographer she met on the set of Deep Sleep. They have two children, Lyla Anne Porter (born 1991) and Russell Porter (born 1994).
Harmon left Law & Order to concentrate on her film career, saying that she preferred working in film to television. After appearing in the 2001 direct-to-video film Good Advice, she had a supporting role in Agent Cody Banks (2003), playing the CIA handler of a teenage agent (Frankie Muniz).
Fifteen years after being nominated for an Oscar for her role in "Casino," Stone found herself playing Assistant District Attorney Jo Marlowe on "SVU's" 11th season in 2010.
Melissa Suzanne George (born 6 August 1976) is an Australian-American actress and entrepreneur. A former national rollerskating champion and model, George began her acting career playing Angel Parrish on the Australian soap opera Home and Away (1993–96).
Martha Stewart is an American businesswoman who guest-starred on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in the episode "Learning Curve" as Eleanor Hastings.
The show followed Stabler and his partner, Detective Olivia Benson, as they worked in the Special Victims Unit in a fictionalized version of the New York City Police Department. Meloni starred on the series for 12 seasons until he left in May 2011.
Treat WilliamsTreat Williams (born Richard Treat Williams on December 1, 1951 in Rowayton, Connecticut) is an actor who guest-starred on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in the episode "Spiraling Down" as Jake Stanton.
As well as starring in the movies Major Crime (1997), Reluctant Angel (1998), and What Katy Did (1999), Follows appeared in a variety of popular television series including Law and Order, The X Files,CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, and ER.
"Murdoch Mysteries" Home for the Holidays (TV Episode 2017) - Megan Follows as Megan Byrne - IMDb.
March 14, 1968 (age 54 years)Megan Follows / Date of birth
Crombie's co-star and onscreen love interest Megan Follows, who played Anne Shirley in the movies, said his unexpected loss was “a big shock.” “He was incredibly funny, Jonathan just had an amazing sense of humour,” she said. “Truly I just remember at times just laughing so hard that you'd just be crying.
Nora Lewin takes over as the DA and a case develops in which McCoy feels that "the penalties are too severe."
Carmichael: It's also possible her lawyer isn't the idiot we take him for. He held on to this until he thought it would do the most good.
This is the first appearance of Dianne Wiest as Nora Lewin. Rudy Giuliani makes a cameo appearance as himself introducing her.
Donald Cragen on the spin-off series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit from 1999 to 2014, and Chris Noth reprised his role of Det. Mike Logan on Law & Order: Criminal Intent from 2005 to 2008.
The American television police procedural and legal drama Law & Order (1990–2010) follows the cases of a group of police detectives and prosecutors who represent the public interest in the criminal justice system. Known for its revolving cast, most of the original stars had left the show within the first five seasons;
After a key witness for a murder trial is found dead outside her hotel room, Detectives Cyrus Lupo and Kevin Bernard become involved in a spiraling case that unravels into an intricate conspiracy, leaving additional witnesses' lives in danger and Rubirosa in the crossfire.
At one point point Lt. Van Buren mentions the "famous blue Audi" that Bart Rainey was driving the day Maggie Hayes was killed. This appears to be an oblique reference to the Leonard Cohen song "Famous Blue Raincoat".
Many of the actors that have partaken in the Law & Order franchise have become synonymous with the characters they play in the shows. Jerry Orbach as Lennie Briscoe, Sam Waterstone as Jack McCoy, Mariska Hargitay as Olivia Benson and Christopher Meloni as Elliot Stabler.
For essentially its entire run and no matter the spinoff, Law & Order has been about telling the story of the police and prosecutors who work to put bad guys away. Law & Order: For the Defense looks at the other side of the equation, the defense lawyers tasked with proving their client’s innocence. The show will also take a broad look at the criminal justice system.
The Law & Order franchise has been on TV for more than 30 years, with Wolf launching the original series on NBC in 1990. Since then, Law & Order has had six other spinoffs, most notably Law & Order: SVU, the newer Law & Order: Organized Crime and Law & Order: Criminal Intent, as well as shorter-lived spinoffs Law & Order: Trial by Jury, Law & Order: LA, and Law & Order: True Crime.
Jerry Orbach as Lennie Briscoe, Sam Waterstone as Jack McCoy, Mariska Hargitay as Olivia Benson and Christopher Meloni as Elliot Stabler.
Law & Order: For the Defense could very well create a new iconic TV character, but just who will be playing them we still don’t know. NBC ordered the spinoff in May, but no cast members were announced at that time and we are still waiting to hear who will be making up the defense team for this new series.
Law & Order: For the Defense appears to still be in the process of development (though on a deadline with its expected fall launch). And with no cast announced, it should come as no surprise that we are without a trailer as of right now.
Michael Balderston is a D.C.-based entertainment writer and content producer for What to Watch . He previously has written for TV Technology and Awards Circuit.
Law and Order has always enjoyed casting some noted Broadway actors for the various series. One of the best was Tovah Feldshuh as Danielle Melnick.
The first season of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit was all about the cops but later brought just as much to the courtroom drama.
Emmett was a force of nature in court, able to put the cops and witnesses off-balance with her sharp questions.
In The Long Arm of the Witness, Rita snaps that people like this have the power, so she has adopted the mantra “if you can’t beat them, join them.” It was sad to see this once proud advocate slide into the dark side.
A cool and all-business woman, Donnelly was believable bossing around Cabot and Novak, her sharp tongue even managing to put Stabler in his place.
Munch has a deep respect for him and Benson hired Ellis to defend her half-brother Simon on false drug charges.
But in Blackout, Nikki herself was attacked by the twisted Ron Miller (Titus Welliver), who also threatened her daughter. It made Nikki realize what kind of people she had been defending for so long.
And none, perhaps, were as memorable as Judge Margaret Barry, brought to life by actress Doris Belack. Belack played Judge Barry for more than 10 years, appearing in 10 episodes of "Law & Order" as well as two episodes of the spinoff "Law & Order: Special Victim's Unit," as per IMDb. However, the stern-faced judge will never grace a courtroom again as Belack died in 2011 at the age of 85. According to Variety, Belack died from natural causes in Manhattan, outliving her husband of 65 years by four months.
Bosco appeared in five episodes of "Law & Order" between 1990 and 1999, three of which as defense attorney Gordon Schell, as per IMDb. He was also in six episodes of the spinoff " Law & Order: Special Victim's Unit " as Judge Joseph Terhune. In addition to his work in the world of "Law & Order," Bosco gathered credits in several huge movies like "Working Girl," "The Savages," "My Best Friend's Wedding," "Hitch," and "Three Men and a Baby." And, as reported by Deadline, Bosco won a Daytime Emmy Award for "Read Between The Lines" and was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1998.
Grizzard's first Broadway appearance was in 1955 when he played Paul Newman's brother in "The Desperate Hours." He was also in the first production of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and was nominated for several Tony Awards for his work in plays like "The Disenchanted" and "Big Fish, Little Fish." Grizzard won a Tony Award in 1996 for "A Delicate Balance." His former on-stage co-star Paul Newman once said of Grizzard (via the New York Daily News), "When we were on the stage together, he was the best thing around."
The premise is simple enough: a team of police officers investigate a crime (usually a ripped-from-the-headlines murder), and then district attorneys prosecute those responsible. But perhaps what made "Law & Order" so successful was its laundry list of amazing actors. From the red-carpet-worthy stars that headlined the show to memorable guests that appeared as perps and judges, it was the actors that made " Law & Order " impossible to turn off — which is why it's heartbreaking that so many have since died. Here are the "Law & Order" actors we've sadly lost.
Perhaps that's why Lynn Cohen appeared as Judge Elizabeth Mizener on "Law and Order" 12 times from 1993 to 2006, as per IMDb.
Larry Sherman, publicist, writer, and "Law & Order Actor," died of natural causes in August of 2017, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter. Though Sherman had many roles and jobs, one of his most recognizable was Judge Colin Fraser on "Law & Order," who he brought to life for more than 20 years.
Does it get any bigger than "Law & Order?" The primetime drama was the definition of a smash hit, running for 20 seasons, topping off at 456 episodes, and inspiring four different spinoffs, as per NBC. Plus, according to IMDb, the show even won six Primetime Emmys, 41 other awards, and over 200 nominations. All it takes is two simple chords — DUN DUNH — and almost anyone around the country will think: "Law & Order!"