Great LAW & ORDER: SVU Guest Stars (And Where Else You Might Have Seen Them)
As one of the longest-running prime-time crime procedural dramas on TV, which is currently entering its 26th season, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit has had its fair share of guest stars. From those actors appearing on the show before making it big, to big stars (including Oscar and Emmy winners!) popping in for a guest appearance, SVU has attracted a range of talent, just like its parent show, Law & Order.
Below is a list of various guest stars from Law & Order: SVU, split into different categories to tell you where you might have seen them before. The list is under the cut, since it's a pretty long list!
BOARDWALK EMPIRE
Michael Pitt (Jimmy Darmody) - S3xE13 "Prodigy"
Paul Sparks (Mickey Doyle) - S2xE08 "Manhunt"
Michael Shannon (Nelson Van Alden/George Mueller) - S6xE13 "Quarry"
Christiane Seidel (Sigrid Mueller) - S12xE01 "Locum"
Michael K. Williams (Chalky White) - S5xE11 "Escape" & S8xE07 "Underbelly"
Paz De La Huerta (Lucy Danzinger) - S1xE18 "Chat Room"
Bobby Cannavale (Gyp Rossetti) - S3xE11 "Monogamy"
Patricia Arquette (Sally Wheet) - S14x09 "Dreams Deferred"
Brian Geraghty (Agent Warren Knox/Jim Tolliver) - S11x11 "Quickie" & S16xE20 "Daydream Believer"
RIVERDALE
Lili Reinhart (Betty Cooper) - S13xE09 "Lost Traveler"
Casey Cott (Kevin Keller) - S18xE19 "Conversion"
Skeet Ulrich (FP Jones) - S12xE03 "Behave"
Marisol Nichols (Hermione Lodge) - S05xE03 "Mother"
Luke Perry (Fred Andrews) - S10x01 "Trials"
CHILD STARS
Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) - S06xE01 "Birthright"
Jennette McCurdy (iCarly) - S06xE11 "Contagious"
Elle Fanning (Somewhere, Maleficent, Super 8) - S08xE08 "Cage"
Anna Chlumsky (My Girl) - S13xE03 "Twenty-Five Acts"
MODERN FAMILY
Julie Bowen (Claire Dunphy) - S10xE01 "Trials"
Sarah Hyland (Haley Dunphy) - S03xE01 "Repression" & S10xE12 "Hothouse"
Ty Burrell (Phil Dunphy) - S03xE15 "Execution"
Ariel Winter (Alex Dunphy) - S21xE02 "The Darkest Journey Home"
ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK
Natasha Lyonne (Nicky Nichols) - S13xE08 "Educated Guess"
Samira Wiley (Poussey Washington) - S16xE21 "Perverted Justice"
Pablo Schreiber (George 'Pornstache' Mendez) - S08xE15 "Haystack" as Dan Kozlowski), S14-15 (as William Lewis)
Elizabeth Rodríguez (Aleida Diaz) - S13xE14 "Home Invasions"
Laura Gómez (Blanca Flores) - S16
Laverne Cox (Sophia Burset) - S09xE16 "Closet"
Taryn Manning (Tiffany 'Pennsatucky' Dogget) - S12xE12 "Possessed"
TEEN SHOW & MOVIE STARS
Melissa Joan Hart (Sabrina the Teenage Witch) - S9xE03 "Impulsive"
Peter Gallagher (the OC) - S16, S17, S18, S19 & S20
James Van Der Beek (Dawson's Creek) - S13xE20 "Father Dearest"
Sophia Bush (One Tree Hill) - S16xE07 "Chicago Crossover" & S16xE20 "Daydream Believer"
Mischa Barton (the OC) - S11xE14 "Savior"
Ian Somerhalder (the Vampire Diaries) - S4xE20 "Dominance"
Paul Wesley (the Vampire Diaries) - S2xE01 "Wrong is Right" & S7xE04 "Ripped"
Hayden Panettiere (Heroes, Scream 4, Ice Princess) - S02xE11 "Abuse" & S06xE15 "Hooked"
Amanda Seyfried (Mean Girls, Jennifer's Body) - S06xE05 "Outcry"
Brittany Snow (John Tucker Must Die, Pitch Perfect) - S07xE22 "Influence"
Jennifer Love Hewitt (I Know What You Did Last Summer, Party of Five, Can't Hardly Wait) - S12xE03 "Behave"
Matthew Lillard (Scream, She's All That) - S10xE16 "Ballerina"
Mae Whitman (the Perks of Being a Wallflower, Tinker Bell, One Fine Day) - S09xE11 "Streetwise"
SITCOM STARS
Debra Messing (Will & Grace) - S12xE17 "Pursuit"
Eric McCormack (Will & Grace) - S11x02 "Sugar"
John Stamos (Full House) - S12xE22 "Bang"
Bob Saget (Full House) - S8x09 "Choreographed"
Jane Krakowski (30 Rock) - S05xE23 "Bound"
Dreama Walker (Don't Trust the B- in Apartment 23) - S16xE10 "Forgiving Rollins"
Rainn Wilson (The Office) - S04x08 "Waste"
Brad Garrett (Everybody Loves Raymond) - S17E22 & E23 "Intersection Lives" & "Heartfelt Passages"
Henry Winkler (Happy Days) - S03xE20 "Greed"
Bebe Neuwirth (Cheers, Frasier) - S01xE03 "...Or Just Look Like One"
MCU STARS
Bradley Cooper (Rocket Raccoon) - S6xE20 "Night"
Zoe Saldana (Gamora) - S5xE21 "Criminal"
Alfred Molina (Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus) - S6xE20 "Night"
Emily VanCamp (Sharon Carter) - S08xE14 "Dependent"
TV STARS
Kyle Maclachan (Desperate Housewives, Twin Peaks, Sex and the City) - S06xE06 "Conscience" & S13xE03 "Blood Brothers"
Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City) - S9x01 "Alternate"
Bradley Whitford (the West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip) - S15xE22 "Reasonable Doubt" & S24xE15 "King of the Moon"
Jennifer Love Hewitt (Ghost Whisperer, 9-1-1) - S12x03 "Behave"
Pedro Pascal (Game of Thrones, the Mandolorian, the Last of Us) - S12xE24 "Smoked"
Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman) - S07x02 "Design"
Wentworth Miller (The Flash, Prison Break) - S11x01 "Unstable" (as Nate Kendall), S21xE06 "Murdered at a Bad Address" & S22x06 "the Long Arm of the Witness" (as Isaiah Holmes)
DISNEY STARS (both movie & channel)
Britt Robinson (Avalon High, Tomorrowland) - S10xE05 "Babes"
Hilary Duff (Lizzie Maguire, Cadet Kelly) - S10xE19 "Selfish"
Sabrina Carpenter (Girl Meets World) - S12E12 "Possessed"
Peyton List (Jesse) - S12xE12 "Possessed" (also star of Cobra Kai!)
MOVIE STARS
Kate Mara (The Martian, Fantastic Four) - S02xE09 "Pixies"
Rooney Mara (The Social Network, Carol) - S07xE20 "Fat"
Sarah Paulson (Down With Love, Ocean's 8) - S11xE12 "Shadow"
Lili Taylor (Mystic Pizza, Say Anything) - S16E15 "Undercover Mother" & S16E23 "Surrendering Noah"
Martin Short (Father of the Bride, Three Amigos) - S06xE18 "Pure"
Alec Baldwin (Beetlejuice, Glengarry Glen Ross) - S15x18 "Criminal Stories"
Whoopi Goldberg (Sister Act, Ghost) - S17xE04 "Institutional Fail"
Mahershala Ali (Moonlight, Leave the World Behind) - S11x01 "Unstable"
Jeremy Irons (Die Hard With a Vengeance, the Lion King) - S12xE13 "Mask" & S12xE20 "Totem"
Adam Driver (Star Wars, Marriage Story) - S13x11 "Theatre Tricks"
Sharon Stone (Basic Instinct, Casino) - four episode arc as ADA Jo Marlowe in season 11
Patricia Arquette (Bringing Out the Dead, True Romance) - S14x09 "Dreams Deferred"
Joan Cusack (Working Girl, Toy Story 2, Addams Family Values) - S12xE01 "Locum"
Lea Thompson (Back to the Future, Red Dawn, Some Kind of Wonderful) - S06xE01 "Birthright"
DEAD POETS SOCIETY
Robin Williams (Mr. Keating) - S09xE117 "Authority"
Robert Sean Leonard (Neil Perry) - S16xE21 "Perverted Justice," S17xE03 "Transgender Bridge" & S17xE10 "Catfishing Teacher"
Josh Charles (Knox Overstreet) - S10x302 "Confession"
James Waterson (Gerard Pitts) - S09xE14 "Inconceivable" & S18xE17 "Real Fake News"
BROADWAY / THEATRE STARS
Raúl Esparza - S14-19, Rafael Barba
Andy Karl - S17, Mike Dodds
Alex Brightman - S22xE05 "Turn Me On, Take Me Private"
Eve Noblezada - S22xE05 "Turn Me On, Take Me Private"
Roger Bart - S14xE03 "Twenty-Five Acts"
Billy Porter - S15xE07 "Dissonant Voices"
Patti LuPone - S16xE11 "Agent Provocateur"
Daveed Diggs - S17xE05 "Community Policing" & S17xE13 "Forty-One Witnesses
Leslie Odom Jr. - S17xE05 "Community Policing"
Laura Benanti - S13-15, Maria Grazie (Nick Amaro's wife)
Jefferson Mays - S16-17, Carl Rudnick
Audra Macdonald - S01xE19 "Contact" & S01xE22 "Slaves"
Aaron Tviet - S11xE10 "Beef" & S13xE02 "Personal Fouls"
HOUSE M.D.
Robert Sean Leonard (James Wilson) - S16xE21 "Perverted Justice," S17xE03 "Transgender Bridge" & S17xE10 "Catfishing Teacher"
Kal Penn (Lawrence Kutner) - S08xE12 "Outsider"
Peter Jacobson (Chris Taub) - S13xE23 "Rhodium Nights," S14xE01 "Lost Reputation," S14xE02 "Above Suspicion" (as Bart Ganzel), S19xE01 "Gone Fishin'" & S19xE13 "The Undiscovered Country" (as Randy Dworkin)
Michael Weston (Lucas Douglas) - S08xE16 "Philadelphia," S08x19 "Florida," S08x22 "Screwed," S13xE16 "Child's Welfare," & S21xE06 "Murdered at a Bad Address"
Zena Grey (Ruby) - S04xE15 "Pandora"
Andre Braugher (Darryl Nolan) - 6 episodes across seasons 13, 14 & 16
DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES
Marcia Cross (Bree Van de Kamp) - S16xE16 "December Solstice"
Kyle McLachlan (Orson Hodge) - S06xE06 "Conscience," S13xE03 "Blood Brothers"
Mark Moses (Paul Young) - S09xE14 "Inconceivable," S18xE16 "The Newsroom"
J.C. MacKenzie (Walter Bierlich) - S7-24 as Brian Ackerman in S7 & S12, and Counsellor Richard Price in S18 & S23-24
Cody Kasch (Zach Young) - S07xE06 "Raw"
Richard Burgi (Karl Mayer) - S11xE15 "Confidential"
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