Law & Order originally aired on NBC in 1990 and ran for 20 years. It also produced several spinoffs such as Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: LA, Law & Order: Trial By Jury and even one across the pond . . . Law & Order: UK. Here are some very familiar faces who guest starred or had cameos in one or the other.
Celebrity Guest Stars on Law & Order was originally published on blackamericaweb.com
1. Jill Scott – 2010 Law & Order: SVU
Jill Scott guest-starred on this episode as a jealous, resentful woman who abuses her helpless, disabled sister who cannot speak, walk or take care of herself.
2. Quinton Aaron – 2010: Law & Order: SVU
Quinton Aaron portrayed the son of Jill Scott’s character who happens to be sweet and caring and takes care of his aunt.
3. Questlove – 2014: Law & Order: SVU
Questlove once said that one of his fantasies was to play a dead body on Law & Order: SVU. He got to do that just recently when he played a corpse who died from a gunshot wound to the head.
4. Courtney B. Vance – 1995: Law & Order
Courtney B. Vance played a smug African American stock broker who resents white people as well as people of his own race and is accused of murdering his boss. He hires a high-profile civil rights attorney who presents a ‘black rage’ defense. Vance later starred on the Criminal Intent series as ADA Ron Carver for several seasons.
5. 2 Chainz – 2013: Law & Order: SVU
2 Chainz guest-starred on this episode as Calvin ‘Pearlie’ Jones, a somewhat unsavory person involved in a conflict with Detective Fin Tutuola (Ice-T).
6. LaLa Anthony – 2013: Law & Order: SVU
LaLa Anthony guest-starred as a nurse turned jumpoff turned baby mama of an inmate. She dropped her typically glamorous style for jeans, running shoes and a plaid hoodie and still managed to look hot.
7. Kerry Washington & Edris Elba – 2001: Law & Order
Kerry Washington played an actress, Allie Lawrence, who goes to a night club with a couple of rappers, one who happens to be her boyfriend and a shooting occurs. Edris Elba is also in this episode. He plays Lonnie Liston, an employee of the night club and was present when the shooting took place.
8. Ludacris – 2006: Law & Order: SVU
Ludacris played Darius Parker, Fin’s troubled nephew in ‘Venom’ and again in an episode “Screwed” where Darius stands trial for rape and murder and is intent on bringing the unit down with him.
9. Big Boi – 2008: Law & Order: SVU
Big Boi played a Hip Hop artist, Gots Money, who is involved in an exotic animal smuggling ring that is under investigation by Detective Stabler. Gots Money agreed to go undercover with Stabler to catch the smugglers.
10. Mehcad Brooks – 2011: Law & Order: SVU
Mehcad Brooks played Prince Miller an NBA star who was abused by his high school coach. The SVU detectives convinced him to come forward so no other boys will be abused and the coach will be punished.
11. Carmelo Anthony, Chris Bosh & Heavy D – 2011: Law & Order: SVU
Carmelo Anthony and Chris Bosh had cameos on this episode. They lend support to Prince Miller. The late great Heavy-D played Supreme, Prince’s friend and business manager who only cares about Prince Miller’s brand.
12. Serena Williams – 2004: Law & Order: SVU
Serena Williams played Chloe Spiers, a college basketball star, who was questioned after a pledge-master of a local fraternity was found murdered. Her team was at an ‘away game’ so she was cleared.
13. Viola Davis – 2002: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Viola Davis portrayed the leader of a school district’s security team, officer Terry Randolph. She and her crew got rid of drug dealers by taking a cut of their profits and committing several murders long the way.
14. Richard Brooks – 1996: Law & Order
Brooks was an original cast member as ADA Paul Robinette. He returned as a defense attorney and placed the system on trial when he defended a young black woman accused of kidnapping her biological baby from his white, adoptive parents.
15. Zoe Saldana & James McDaniel – 2004: Law & Order: SVU
Zoe Saldana played Gabrielle Vega the daughter of Javier Vega (James McDaniel) in this episode. She is a college student and her father is a criminology professor who is accused of murdering one of his students.
16. Wentworth Miller – 2010: Law & Order: SVU
Miller guest-starred as Officer Nate Kendall. He is called in to assist Detectives’ Stabler & Benson solve a series of rape cases.
17. Gina Torres – 2011: Law & Order
Torres guest-starred on this episode as a manager in a expensive restaurant who is questioned by the detectives because her boss, the owner of the establishment, is suspected of having her husband killed.
18. Delroy Lindo – 2008: Law & Order: SVU
Delroy Lindo played a homicide detective who teams up with Detective Stabler in search of a rapist/murderer who has committed similar crimes in Lindo’s precinct.
19. John Stamos – 2011: Law & Order: SVU
After a baby is found abandoned in a courtyard, the case leads the SVU detectives to a reproductive abuser played by John Stamos. He already has 20 children and another in the oven. He ensures all his women will wind up pregnant simply by putting a tiny pin prick in their condoms.
20. Blair Underwood- 2007: Law & Order: SVU
Underwood played an estranged husband, Miles Sennet, accused of breaking into his soon to be ex-wife’s home and raping her. Michael Michele played his wife, Valerie Sennet, who does whatever she can to keep him from seeing their daughter. Underwood’s character snaps and sets his wife on fire. Very good acting but painful to watch.
21. Chandra Wilson – 1992: Law & Order
Wilson played a teenage sitter who was not allowed into a building to watch a baby. The child froze to death due to the rundown condition of
the building. Chandra also guest starred on a couple of Law & Order: SVU.
22. Isaiah Washington – 1991: Law & Order
Washington played one of the three college kids accused of raping a college student during a fraternity Halloween party.
23. Samuel L. Jackson – 1991: Law & Order
Jackson played a defense attorney who has a challenging case of defending a youthful Philip Seymour Hoffman who played a thug charged with gang rape.
