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From Julia Roberts to Samuel L. Jackson, spot each the A-list Hollywood actors whose careers began with guest-starring roles connected NBC's Law & Order.
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Law & Order has helped motorboat the careers of immoderate of Hollywood's biggest stars.
And no, we're not talking astir longtime veterans of the deed NBC transgression play similar Anthony Anderson, Sam Waterson oregon Benjamin Bratt. You won't judge immoderate of the TV and movie actors who have appeared connected the procedural implicit the past fewer decades earlier becoming household names.
Did you cognize that agelong earlier she was winning Emmys and starring connected television's astir talked-about series, Sarah Paulson landed her precise archetypal acting relation successful 1994 playing a teen who claimed that she was having an matter with her murdered mother's caller husband? And astir 2 decades earlier playing Tommy Lee connected Hulu's caller hit Pam & Tommy, a young Sebastian Stan portrayed a boy abducted and raised by his abuser.
A-listers similar Julia Roberts, Ellen Pompeo, Samuel L. Jackson and Jennifer Garner have besides appeared connected Law & Order aboriginal successful their blockbuster careers.
In grant of each three Law & Order bid returning connected Thursday, Sept. 22, we're revisiting each the celebs you forgot guest-starred implicit the years. Take a travel down representation lane by scrolling done the photograph assemblage below.
Law & Order play 22 premieres Sept. 22 astatine 8 p.m. connected NBC.
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Jennifer Garner
The histrion played a postgraduate pupil who has a romanticist brushwood with Benjamin Bratt's quality successful a 1996 episode.
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Adam Driver
Before his breakout relation connected Girls, Driver appeared connected Law & Order's last 2010 play and played a laboratory technician accused of murdering an escort.
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Julia Roberts
In 1999, portion she was dating bid prima Benjamin Bratt, the histrion made a uncommon TV quality arsenic a enactment planner progressive successful the decease of almighty businessman.
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Sebastian Stan
Nearly 20 years ago, the Pam & Tommy star played a lad abducted and raised by his abuser successful 2003.
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Allison Janney
Early successful her career, the Oscar victor popped up on Law & Order doubly successful 1992 and 1994. The archetypal time, she played a quality frightened to attest astir a murder. She returned 2 years aboriginal to represent someone interviewed astir the execution of soap opera actress.
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Sam Rockwell
The Oscar victor has portrayed 2 antithetic characters connected seasons 2 and three, playing a constabulary serviceman and a subordinate of a family accused of murdering a Chinese-American pupil respectively.
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Emmy Rossum
Rossum's precise archetypal acting gig was connected a 1997 occurrence playing a preteen who was the people of a pistillate circumcision.
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Sarah Paulson
In her precise archetypal TV role, the Emmy winner played a teen who claimed that she was having an matter with her murdered mother's caller hubby successful 1994.
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Samuel L. Jackson
The histrion appeared successful a 1991 occurrence arsenic the lawyer for a cause trader accused of rape. Who played the cause dealer? Read on...
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Philip Seymour Hoffman
In his archetypal tv role, the aboriginal Oscar victor played a cause trader betrayed by different crook. Samuel L. Jackson is his lawyer.
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Claire Danes
Even earlier her starring relation connected My So-Called Life, the histrion played a troubled teen successful a 1992 occurrence that besides featured aboriginal Six Feet Under prima Lauren Ambrose.
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Leighton Meester
In a 1999 episode, she plays the girl of a battered pistillate who helps detectives Briscoe and Curtis with a case.
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Vera Farmiga
The Up In the Air prima had a portion successful a 1998 occurrence astir a shooting.
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Ellen Pompeo
The Grey's Anatomy histrion really appeared connected Law & Order twice, successful 1996 and 2000. (Fellow Grey's stars Kate Walsh and Chandra Wilson besides got enactment connected the series.)
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Cynthia Nixon
During the show's archetypal season, the histrion played a pistillate who shoots 2 men successful a subway.
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Amanda Peet
In 1995, Peet played a pistillate progressive successful a mysterious case.
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Chandra Wilson
Decades earlier Grey's Anatomy, Wilson played Serena Price for 1 1992 episode.
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(Originally published Feb. 24, 2022 astatine 6 a.m. PT)
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