Figures from Law & Order

This is a listing and description of the characters from the US television series Law & Order .

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Overview

actor	role	Seasons
actor	role	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	Movie	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th
George Dzundza	Max Greevey	MR
Chris Noth	Mike Logan	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR				MR
Then Florek	Donald "Don" Cragen	MR	MR	MR		GA				MR		GA					GA
Michael Moriarty	Benjamin "Ben" Stone	MR	MR	MR	MR
Richard Brooks	Paul Robinette	MR	MR	MR			GA											GA	GA
Steven Hill	Adam Schiff	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR		MR	MR
Paul Sorvino	Phil Cerreta		MR	MR
Carolyn McCormick	Dr. Elizabeth Olivet		NO	MR	MR	NO	NO	NO			GA	GA			NO	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO	GA	GA
Jerry Orbach	Leonard "Lennie" Briscoe			MR	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR
S. Epatha Merkerson	Anita van Buren	GA in a different role than Denise Winters (01/17)			MR	MR	MR	MR	MR	NO	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR
Jill Hennessy	Claire Kincaid				MR	MR	MR
Sam Waterston	John Michael "Jack" McCoy					MR	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR
Benjamin Bratt	Reynaldo "Rey" Curtis						MR	MR	MR	MR	MR											GA
Carey Lowell	Jamie Ross							MR	MR			GA	GA
John Fiore	Tony Profaci	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO	MR	GA
Angie Harmon	Abbie Carmichael										MR	MR	MR
Jesse L. Martin	Edward "Ed" Green											MR	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR	MR
Dianne Wiest	Nora Lewin												MR	MR
Elisabeth Röhm	Serena Southerlyn													MR	MR	MR	MR
Fred Dalton Thompson	Arthur Branch														MR	MR	MR	MR	MR
Dennis Farina	Joe Fontana																MR	MR
Annie Parisse	Alexandra Borgia																MR	MR
Michael Imperioli	Nick Falco																MR	GA
Milena Govich	Nina Cassady																		MR
Alana de la Garza	Connie Rubirosa																		MR	MR	MR	MR
Jeremy Sisto	Cyrus Lupo																			MR	MR	MR
Linus Roache	Michael "Mike" cutter																			MR	MR	MR
Anthony Anderson	Kevin "B" Bernard																			MR	MR	MR
Leslie Hendrix	Elizabeth Rodgers		NO	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO	GA	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO
JK Simmons	Emil Skoda								NO		NO	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO					NO

(HR: main role, NR: supporting role, GA: guest appearances)

Max Greevey

Sergeant Greevey was Donald Cragen's partner in the 1960s. He worked at the 27th New York Police Department. He worked with Mike Logan in the late 1980s and early 1990s under the direction of Captain Cragen. In 1991 Greevey was murdered during an investigation. He was married to his wife Marie and had three children. He was a supporter of the conservative Catholic faith. Max is also against abortion.

Mike Logan

Chris Noth played Det. Logan

Detective Mike Logan was born in New York City and raised with an Irish Catholic family. He has a dark past having been molested as a child and his mother being an alcoholic. He came to the 27th station as a young cop in the 1980s and became the partner of Max Greevey. He was shot in 1991 and Phil Cerreta became his new partner, who was also shot after more than a year. Then Lennie Briscoe was his partner until Logan was transferred to Staten Island in 1995 . It wasn't until 1998 that he returned to Manhattan for a murder case . In 2005 he was transferred to the Major Case Squad .

Donald Cragen

In the 1960s Cragen was in the military and had a deployment in the Vietnam War . He then went to the New York Homicide Squad, where he became a partner of Max Greevey. He worked his way up to captain and in the late 1980s took over the post of head of the 27th police station.

In his past, Cragen had a drinking problem. This went so far that he, drunk, threatened a taxi driver with his service revolver. After that, Greevey threatened to stop working with him if he couldn't get his problem under control. Since then he hasn't touched a drop of alcohol. His wife died in a plane crash. In 1991 Cragen was investigated for corruption, but his innocence was proven. In 1993 he left the station and joined the anti-corruption task force. In 1998 he worked with his former precinct until he became head of the Special Victims Unit in 1999 .

Benjamin Stone

In 1985 Benjamin Stone was appointed executive prosecutor. At first he worked under the prosecutor Alfred Wentworth until he was replaced by Adam Schiff in 1990. Stone advocates the death penalty. After losing a witness in 1994 despite promised protection, he resigned from the public prosecutor's office and made a trip to Europe. Stone passed away in 2018, with Jack McKoy delivering the funeral speech. His son, Peter Stone, also works for the prosecutor. First in Chicago , and after the death of his father, in New York for the Special Victims Unit . Benjamin Stone also had a daughter who was shot dead in 2018.

Paul Robinette

Richard Brooks played ADA Robinette.

Assistant Attorney Paul Robinette worked with Benjamin Stone from 1990 to 1993. He grew up in Harlem . Paul is an advocate for racial equality. He also hates racism . Finally, he switched sides in 1993: He became a defense attorney and appeared in an episode against prosecutor John Michael McCoy, where he defended a former crack addict (6th season, episode 14). He represents several clients in 1996, 2005 and 2006. Robinette was replaced by Claire Kincaid in the public prosecutor's office.

Adam Schiff

Adam Schiff is the successor to Alfred Wentworth. He became head of the Manhattan Attorney's Office in 1990 . He is a graduate of Columbia University . He is a pragmatic democrat. He is on good terms with his assistants, such as Benjamin Stone and Jack McCoy. He often has conversations with them on political issues. Business people, politicians and judges belong to his circle of friends.

In 1997 Schiff's wife died of complications after a stroke. Schiff leaves the public prosecutor's office in 2000 to work with Simon Wiesenthal.

Phil Cerreta

Paul Sorvino played Sgt. Cerreta

Sergeant Cerreta became a police officer in 1961 and joined the homicide squad in 1991. He is an Italian-American Catholic. He is married and has five children. Before he went to the police, he was in the military. He was gunned down during an undercover mission in 1992 and survived. After the attack, it became known that he could no longer work in the field. He was offered the management of the 110th district, which he accepted. Cerreta was replaced by Lennie Briscoe.

Lennie Briscoe

Detective Lennie Briscoe was born on January 2, 1940. He grew up in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan. He has been married twice and has two daughters. He also has a nephew who is also a detective. Lennie is a dry alcoholic. After he was in a car accident in 1996 in which prosecutor Claire Kincaid died, he never touched a drop of alcohol. Lennie is very good friends with Det. John Munch (in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ), whom he met during a murder investigation between New York City and Baltimore . Lennie had previously slept with one of Munch's ex-wives. Briscoe was also in the military before joining the NYPD. One of his daughters was shot (episode 8x22) and buried according to the Jewish rite. In 2004 Briscoe retired. Briscoe died between 2004 and 2007.

Anita van Buren

Lt. Anita van Buren is the successor to Cpt. Cragan and the manager of Manhattan 27th Precinct. The NYPD decided against promotion to captain. Van Buren fought against it unsuccessfully. Anita van Buren has two children and is not married. She is a graduate of John Jay College .

In 2009 she was diagnosed with cervical cancer. She had lost her hair from the chemotherapy she started afterwards. In 2010 she was on the mend and seemed almost cured.

Claire Kincaid

Assistant Attorney Claire Kincaid succeeds Paul Robinette. She is against the death penalty and has ambivalent feelings about drug prohibition. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School . Her stepfather Mac Geller was one of her professors. She often considers leaving the prosecution during the three years she has been with the prosecution.

In 1996 she died in a car accident: While she was driving the drunk Det. Briscoe home, an equally drunk driver rammed the car and Kincaid died in the process; Lennie survived and was wandering the street.

Jack McCoy

Sam Waterston as DA Jack McCoy

District Attorney John Michael "Jack" McCoy has been with the District Attorney since 1970. In 1994 he joined the Manhattan Attorney's Office. There he was the executive prosecutor until 2007, when he became head of the prosecutor's office in 2008. McCoy is not as interested in politics as Adam Schiff or Arthur Branch, his predecessors. However, since he has held the office of public prosecutor, he has had to become politically active. He is in favor of the death penalty and seeks it for heinous crimes. During his tenure in the prosecution, McCoy had many conflicts with his superiors and with his assistants. He also had several disagreements with the police.

McCoy's father was a Chicago cop and was also a racist. Therefore, McCoy often took cases that u. a. had to do with racism, personally. His mother died of cancer at an early age. Jack is divorced twice and has a daughter. He had three affairs with his assistants prior to joining the Manhattan Attorney General.

Rey Curtis

Detective Rey Curtis succeeded Det. Logan and became the new partner of Det. Lennie Briscoe in 1995. Curtis was married and has three children. His wife, Deborah, died in 2009 of years of MS . As early as 1999, her MS got worse, so Curtis left the police force. During his partnership with Briscoe, Curtis cheated on his wife several times, causing him to temporarily move out of home. He later returned because of his wife's MS.

After he left the police force in 1999 and went to Los Angeles , he reported to Lt. 10 years later. van Buren to inform about the death of his wife. His wife was buried in New York.

Jamie Ross

Carey Lowell played Jamie Ross

Jamie Ross joined Manhattan in 1996 as an assistant attorney. Before that she was in the defense. She studied law at Columbia University . From 1997 to 1998 she found it difficult to concentrate on work after fighting over custody of her child with her ex-husband. One of the reasons was that she left the prosecutor's office in 1998. She went back to defense and took a job that gave her more time to look after her child.

In 1999 and 2001 she played as a defense attorney against Jack McCoy. In 2005 she was promoted to judge.

Abbie Carmichael

Abbie Carmichael is the direct successor of Jamie Ross and joined the Manhattan Attorney's Office in 1998. She graduated from the University of Texas . She is pro-life , against gun control, favors the death penalty and has little faith in criminal rehabilitation programs. She therefore often had conflicts with her boss McCoy. In 1999, her friend and colleague Toni Ricci was murdered by Russian gangsters. In 2001 she left the prosecutor's office.

Abbie has represented many cases from the Sexual Offenses Unit.

Ed Green

Jesse L. Martin as Det. Ed Green

Detective Ed Green became Det. Lennie Briscoe's new partner in 1999. At first they had very different opinions, but they later became close friends. In 2004 Briscoe retired and Ed had to put up with a new partner. At first, Green was skeptical about his partner, Joe Fontana. Later they got along very well. In April 2005, Green was gunned down while doing his duty. He then had to be replaced by Det. Falco for several months. He recovered and returned to the police force in September 2005. After Fontana retired, Green became a senior detective and had a partner for a year who was very inexperienced. He then got a partner who worked abroad for the New York Police Department. In 2008, Green was involved in a shootout, after which he was charged. He was acquitted of all charges, but left the police force.

Nora Lewin

In 2000, after Adam Schiff retired, Nora Lewin took over the management of the public prosecutor's office. Initially it was intended to be used only temporarily, but was later used fully. Prior to her time as a prosecutor, she was a law professor. As early as 2002, she did not stand for election again to run for the post with the public prosecutor's office. She then left the prosecutor's office.

Serena Southerlyn

Serena Southerlyn joined McCoy's team in 2001 as the new assistant attorney. She replaced Abby Carmichael. She, too, often had conflicts with McCoy and had different opinions when it came to charges against suspects. In 2005 she showed great sympathy for a suspect, after which she was fired by Arthur Branch. Southerlyn believed she was fired because of her sexual orientation. Branch denied this, however.

Arthur Branch

Fred Thompson played Arthur Branch

Arthur Branch succeeded Nora Lewin at the prosecutor's office. He is a graduate of Yale University and was later even a professor at that university. In addition, Branch is a tough politician and therefore always comes into conflict with his deputy Jack McCoy. Still, he was a good friend of McCoy's. In 2007 he left the prosecutor's office after five years and did not stand for re-election. He was succeeded by Jack McCoy, who had long been a member of the Manhattan Attorney's Office.

Joe Fontana

Dennis Farina played Det. Fontana

After Lennie Briscoe's retirement, Detective Joe Fontana moved to Manhattan from the Bronx in 2004 and became Det. Ed Green's new partner. Fontana originally comes from Little Italy in Chicago . Fontana is so rich that he doesn't have to work. He wears tailor-made suits and drives a Mercedes-Benz SL500 . He also carries thousands of dollars with him all the time. Det. Fontana often relies on the "old school" of police work in his investigations and is therefore sometimes violent towards suspects. He often uses torture, for example by sticking a perpetrator's head in a toilet key. In 2006 he retired.

Alexandra Borgia

Alexandra Borgia became Jack McCoy's new assistant in 2005 after Arthur Branch fired his previous colleague Serena Southerlyn. She worked with Jack and Arthur without prejudice. She fought for each case with full concentration and had to pay with her life for it in 2006 after she was kidnapped and tortured by a group of violent people. She choked on her own vomit as a result of being tied up and being locked in a trunk. Her successor was Connie Rubirosa.

Nick Falco

Michael Imperioli played Det. Falco.

After Det. Ed Green was gunned down during an investigation and fell into a coma, Det. Nick Falco became a temporary partner of Det. Joe Fontana. He and Fontana had no arguments or conflicts during their brief partnership. After a year, Falco was involved in a murder case that Fontana and Green were investigating. A woman was stabbed to death in Falco's apartment and he couldn't remember anything. It later turned out that he was supposed to be drugged and actually robbed. He was acquitted of all charges.

Nina Cassady

Det. Nina Cassady came to the 27th district as a beginner. She worked with Det. Green for a year. She had already become known in the run-up to the tabloids and did not do well with Lt. van Buren. She was eventually released.

Connie Rubirosa

Connie Rubirosa graduated from Swarthmore College with a law degree . She then worked as a kindergarten teacher until she came to the Manhattan district attorney's office. She initially worked with Jack McCoy. When he became the new chief prosecutor, she was Mike Cutter's assistant. She worked for the Manhattan Attorney's Office for about five years until her mother fell ill and she had to move to Los Angeles . There she now worked as a deputy district attorney.

Cyrus Lupo

Before Det. Lupo came to the 27th Station, he worked for the NYPD's Counter Terrorism . He was in Iraq and Morocco for this . He first became a partner of Ed Green, who was investigating the death of Lupo's brother. It turned out that he had committed suicide. After Ed Green left the police force, Det. Bernard became his new partner. Lupo is also studying law at an evening school.

Michael Cutter

Michael "Mike" Cutter became assistant prosecutor in 2008 after McCoy became head of the department. Cutter prevails and often defies McCoy's instructions. Once he was so stressed and making mistakes that McCoy gave him leave. In 2011, Cutter Bureau became Chief of the Prosecutor's Office and has made frequent indictments for the Special Victims Unit.

Kevin Bernard

Anthony Anderson played Kevin Bernard

Det. Bernard was initially in the civil service investigating Ed Green, who had shot a suspect. After Green, despite his acquittal, had left the service, Bernard moved from the civil service to homicide. There he works with Det. Lupo. Bernard and Lupo became friends quickly and get along well. Lupo only ever calls him "B".

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