Law & Order Season 22 is almost upon us, with the show set to premiere with an epic three-hour crossover with Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (SVU) and Law & Order: Organized Crime on NBC on Thursday, September 22.
The show's special event will see the cast of all three shows come together for the first time, and the crossover also launches Season 24 of Law & Order: SVU and Season 3 of Law & Order: Organized Crime.
Here is everything you need to know about who will star in the show.
Who Is in the Cast of the 'Law & Order' Crossover? The New and Returning Actors
The Law and Order crossover event is titled "Gimme Shelter" and it will begin on September 22 at 8 p.m. ET with Organized Crime, followed by SVU and then concluding with Law & Order.
Centered around one plotline, the three-series event will see Law & Order's Detective Frank Cosgrove (Jeffrey Donovan) and Junior Detective Jalen Shaw (played by new cast member Mehcad Brooks) investigate the death of a young girl.
SVU's Captain Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Organized Crime's Detective Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) will also step in to help, with Law & Order's Jack McCoy (Sam Waterston) and Nolan Price (Hugh Dancy) then working to seek justice against an international crime ring.
Law & Order creator Dick Wolf shared a statement with Entertainment Weekly about the crossover, saying: "Nothing demonstrates the power of the Law & Order brand more than an ambitious three-hour event with a story that is truly ripped from the headlines that starts on Organized Crime, then migrates to SVU and finally the trial on Law & Order.
"Rick [Eid] and Gwen [Sigan] did an amazing job writing a compelling script and I can't think of a bigger and better way to launch the new season of Law & Order Thursday."
Eid, who is also the showrunner for Law & Order, spoke about the event with TVLine, and he said: "Unlike other crossovers, this is structured and produced [on an epic scale].
"It's not a handoff from one show to the next. It's really one story that involves all the characters from the different shows."
Here is the Full Cast for the 'Law & Order' Crossover Event:
- Jeffrey Donovan plays Senior Detective Frank Cosgrove
- Mehcad Brooks plays Junior Detective Jalen Shaw
- Camryn Manheim plays Lieutenant Kate Dixon
- Hugh Dancy plays Executive Assistant District Attorney Nolan Price
- Odelya Halevi plays Assistant District Attorney Samantha Maroun
- Sam Waterston plays District Attorney Jack McCoy
- Mariska Hargitay plays Captain Olivia Benson
- Kelli Giddish plays Detective Amanda Rollins
- Ice-T plays Odafin Tutuola
- Octavia Pisano plays Detective Joe Velasco
- Danielle Moné Truitt plays Sergeant Ayanna Bell
- Peter Scanavino plays Assistant District Attorney Dominick Carisi Jr.
- Christopher Meloni plays Detective Elliot Stabler
- Ainsley Seiger plays Detective Jet Slootmaekers
- Claire Coffee plays Andrea Rankin
- Alayna Hester plays Lily Cosgrove
The three-hour Law & Order event premieres at 8 p.m. ET on NBC on Thursday, September 22.
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