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Elizabeth Olivet
Dr Elizabeth Olivet is a fictional character on the TV crime drama '' Law & Order''. She was portrayed by Carolyn McCormick from 1991 to 1997 and in 1999. The character was revived in 2002, although her appearances became much more infrequent; her last appearance on ''Law & Order'' occurred in 2009. Since the cancellation of ''Law & Order'', Olivet has continued to be seen very occasionally on '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'', with her most recent appearance taking place in 2018. Olivet is one of only five characters who have appeared in all four of the ''Law & Order'' series set in New York City. The other four are Lennie Briscoe (Jerry Orbach), Ed Green ( Jesse L. Martin), Arthur Branch (Fred Dalton Thompson), and Elizabeth Rodgers ( Leslie Hendrix). Olivet and police psychiatrist Emil Skoda (J. K. Simmons) are the only ''Law & Order'' characters to make crossover appearances on ''New York Undercover'', another series produced by Dick Wolf. She has appeared in 75 episodes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Law & Order (franchise)
''Law & Order'' is a media franchise composed of a number of related American television series created by Dick Wolf and produced by Wolf Entertainment. They were originally broadcast on NBC, and all of them deal with some aspect of the criminal justice system. Together, the original series, its various spin-offs, the TV film, and crossover episodes from other shows constitute over 1,000 hours of programming. Shared people and resources in a common fictional setting are the connecting links between the shows, e.g., Hudson University and the ''New York Ledger'' tabloid newspaper. Many supporting characters, such as district attorneys, psychologists, and medical examiners are also shared among the shows. Occasionally, crossovers of main characters or shared storylines between two of the shows will occur. A few major characters have also left the cast of one show within the franchise only to eventually join another. The music, style, and credits of the shows tend to be similar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NYPD
The New York City Police Department (NYPD), officially the City of New York Police Department, established on May 23, 1845, is the primary municipal law enforcement agency within the City of New York, the largest and one of the oldest in the United States. The NYPD headquarters is at 1 Police Plaza, located on Park Row in Lower Manhattan near City Hall. The NYPD's regulations are compiled in title 38 of the ''New York City Rules''. The NYC Transit Police and NYC Housing Authority Police Department were fully integrated into the NYPD in 1995. Dedicated units of the NYPD include the Emergency Service Unit, K9, harbor patrol, highway patrol, air support, bomb squad, counter-terrorism, criminal intelligence, anti-organized crime, narcotics, mounted patrol, public transportation, and public housing units. The NYPD employs over 50,000 people, including more than 35,000 uniformed officers. According to the official CompStat database, the NYPD responded to nearly 500,00 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mental Institution
Psychiatric hospitals, also known as mental health hospitals, behavioral health hospitals, are hospitals or wards specializing in the treatment of severe mental disorders, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, dissociative identity disorder, major depressive disorder and many others. Psychiatric hospitals vary widely in their size and grading. Some hospitals may specialize only in short-term or outpatient therapy for low-risk patients. Others may specialize in the temporary or permanent containment of patients who need routine assistance, treatment, or a specialized and controlled environment due to a psychiatric disorder. Patients often choose voluntary commitment, but those whom psychiatrists believe to pose significant danger to themselves or others may be subject to involuntary commitment and involuntary treatment. Psychiatric hospitals may also be called psychiatric wards/units (or "psych" wards/units) when they are a subunit of a regular hospital. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy (also psychological therapy, talk therapy, or talking therapy) is the use of psychological methods, particularly when based on regular personal interaction, to help a person change behavior, increase happiness, and overcome problems. Psychotherapy aims to improve an individual's well-being and mental health, to resolve or mitigate troublesome behaviors, beliefs, compulsions, thoughts, or emotions, and to improve relationships and social skills. Numerous types of psychotherapy have been designed either for individual adults, families, or children and adolescents. Certain types of psychotherapy are considered evidence-based for treating some diagnosed mental disorders; other types have been criticized as pseudoscience. There are hundreds of psychotherapy techniques, some being minor variations; others are based on very different conceptions of psychology. Most involve one-to-one sessions, between the client and therapist, but some are conducted with groups, incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Waterston
Samuel Atkinson Waterston (born November 15, 1940) is an American actor. Waterston is known for his work in theater, television and, film. He has received a Primetime Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award, and has received various award nominations including an Academy Award, Tony Award, and a British Academy Film Award. Having starred in over 80 film and television productions during his 50-year career, he is also known for numerous stage productions on Broadway and Off-Broadway. AllMovie historian Hal Erickson characterized Waterston as having "cultivated a loyal following with his quietly charismatic, unfailingly solid performances." Waterston received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010 and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2012. Waterston studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and the American Actors Workshop. He started his career in theater on the New York stage, appearing in multiple revivals of Shakespeare. In 1975, he st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack McCoy
John James McCoy is a fictional character in the television drama ''Law & Order''. He was created by Dick Wolf and Michael S. Chernuchin and has been portrayed by Sam Waterston during both the show's original run from 1994 to 2010 and since its return in 2022. He is the longest-tenured character on the show, appearing in 18 seasons. He has appeared in 382 episodes of ''Law & Order'', four episodes of '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'', two episodes of '' Law & Order: Trial by Jury'', two episodes of '' Homicide: Life on the Street'', and the made-for-TV movie '' Exiled''. Waterston's performance as McCoy on the New York–based series was so popular that it resulted in him being declared a "Living Landmark" by the New York Landmarks Conservancy, along with fellow longtime series cast member Jerry Orbach (who portrayed the popular police detective Lennie Briscoe for almost 12 years). Character overview Jack McCoy brings 24 years of experience with him as he is introduced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Moriarty
Michael Moriarty (born April 5, 1941) is an American-Canadian actor and jazz musician. He received an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award for his first acting role on American television as a Nazi SS officer in the 1978 mini-series ''Holocaust'' as well as a Tony Award in 1974 for his performance in the play ''Find Your Way Home''. He played Executive Assistant District Attorney Benjamin Stone for the first four seasons (1990–1994) of the television show ''Law & Order.'' Moriarty is also known for his roles in films such as ''Bang the Drum Slowly'', ''Who'll Stop the Rain'', '' Q: The Winged Serpent'', ''The Stuff'', ''Pale Rider'', ''Troll'', ''Courage Under Fire'', and '' Shiloh''. Early life Michael Moriarty was born in Detroit, Michigan, on April 5, 1941. He is the son of Eleanor ( ''née'' Paul) and George Moriarty, a surgeon. His grandfather George Moriarty was a third baseman, umpire and manager in major league baseball for nearly 40 years. Moriarty attended middle sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Stone (Law & Order Character)
Benjamin "Ben" Stone is a fictional character portrayed by Michael Moriarty in the TV drama ''Law & Order''. He was the Executive Assistant District Attorney for New York County until his resignation at the end of season four. He appeared in 88 episodes. Character overview Stone works in the Manhattan District Attorney's office under Alfred Wentworth (Roy Thinnes, in the pilot episode "Everybody's Favorite Bagman") and Adam Schiff (Steven Hill). He was raised in an Irish Catholic family. He was raised mostly by his Irish grandmother, his father having been an alcoholic. Stone is divorced and has a son, Peter Stone (Philip Winchester), who was the Deputy Chief of the Special Prosecutions Bureau in Chicago and was the Chief ADA of the Sex Crimes Bureau in New York, and a daughter, Pamela ( Amy Korb). Stone's prosecutorial methods are portrayed as being grounded in moral principles stemming from his Catholic faith. He is shown to be anti-abortion and opposed to the death penalty. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Dzundza
George Dzundza ( ; born July 19, 1945) is an American television and film actor. Early life and education Dzundza was born in Rosenheim, Germany, to a Ukrainian-Jewish father, Roman Dzundza, originally from Kalush, Ukraine, and a Polish-Jewish mother, Maria Humenecka, originally from Lviv, Ukraine. His parents were forced into factory labour by the Nazis. He spent the first few years of his life in displaced persons camps with his parents and one brother. The family moved to Amsterdam in 1949, then moved to the US in 1956, settling in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. He attended Xavier High School in Manhattan. He attended St. Johns University and also studied under Stella Adler and Harold Clurman. Career Dzundza began acting in his freshman year of college at the insistence of another student. However, his professional stage debut was in a 1973 New York Shakespeare Festival production of ''King Lear''. Dzundza starred in a short-lived 1981 sitcom series ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Greevey
Maxwell Greevey is a fictional character played by George Dzundza on NBC's long-running police procedural and legal drama television series ''Law & Order''. Following Dzundza's departure from the cast at the end of the first season, Greevey was written off the series with his death in the second season premiere. In ''Law & Order'' Greevey is a homicide detective working in Manhattan's 27th Detective Squad. He was born in 1946 and began his career in the 1960s, partnered with Don Cragen (Dann Florek). By the beginning of the series, he is promoted to sergeant and partnered with Mike Logan (Chris Noth), with Cragen as their captain. He is very close to Logan, even while having authority over him, and provides his younger partner advice and someone in whom to confide. Greevey is happily married to his wife Marie (Karen Shallo), with whom he has three children. Among them is his son Matthew. A conservative Irish Catholic, he sometimes looks down upon people, even murder victims, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Noth
Christopher David Noth ( ; born November 13, 1954) is an American actor. He is known for his television roles as NYPD Detective Mike Logan on ''Law & Order'' (1990–95), Big on ''Sex and the City'' (1998–2004), and Peter Florrick on ''The Good Wife'' (2009–16). Noth reprised his role of Mike Logan on ''Law & Order: Criminal Intent'' (2005–08), and reprised his role of Big in the films ''Sex and the City'' (2008) and ''Sex and the City 2'' (2010). He was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television for ''Sex and the City'' in 1999 and for ''The Good Wife'' in 2010. Noth starred in the first two seasons of the 2021 revival of '' The Equalizer'', on CBS, and appeared in '' And Just Like That...'', the revival of ''Sex and the City''. Early life Noth was born November 13, 1954, in Madison, Wisconsin, the youngest of three boys, to news reporter Jeanne Parr (1924–2016). Parr was one of the first female correspondents for CBS News, and hos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Logan (Law & Order)
Michael Logan is a fictional character in the police procedural and legal drama television series ''Law & Order'' franchise, played by Chris Noth. He appears in 148 episodes of the franchise (111 episodes of ''Law & Order'' and 36 episodes of ''Law & Order: Criminal Intent'') as well as in one episode of '' Homicide: Life on the Street''. He also appeared in '' Exiled: A Law & Order Movie''. History in the franchise Logan initially appeared on ''Law & Order'' from the show's pilot episode. He appeared in every episode beginning with the first season in 1990 until Noth's dismissal from the series in 1995. After appearing in the franchise telemovie ''Exiled'', the character then guest-starred in the ''Law & Order: Criminal Intent'' season-four episode "Stress Position". Logan subsequently became a regular on ''Criminal Intent'', starting with the first episode of season five, " Grow", which originally aired on September 25, 2005. Logan then left the series in the 21st episode of s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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