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Law and Order: SVU Celebrity Guest Stars, Ranked
The 25 best, in honor of the show’s 25th season.
Not only has the procedural drama about sex crimes in New York City kept Mariska Hargitay employed for 25 years, but it has enlisted an extensive list of recognizable actors, from child stars to theater performers and Oscar winners, to help bring some of its wildest moments and characters to life. Lansbury has always had a knack for portraying sinister wealthy matriarchs, so the role of Eleanor Duvall, a mother who’s willing to go to any lengths in order to protect her serial-rapist son Gabriel (Alfred Molina, who didn’t make the cut for this list) who targets undocumented immigrant women, feels tailor-made for her. As an anti-authoritarian engineer named Merritt Rook, he impersonates police officers to convince fast-food store managers to sexually assault their employees, puts the SVU squad through a hell of a journey, and eventually kidnaps Olivia Benson as his way of challenging authority.
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