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Olivia Margaret "Liv" Benson [2] is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the NBC police procedural drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, portrayed by Mariska Hargitay. Benson holds the rank and pay-grade of Captain and is the Commanding Officer of the Special Victims Unit of the New York City Police Department , which operates ...
Mariska Magdolna Hargitay [1] (/ m ə ˈ r ɪ ʃ k ə ˈ h ɑːr ɡ ɪ t eɪ /; [2] born January 23, 1964) [3] [4] is an American actress, producer, and philanthropist. Hargitay has played Olivia Benson on NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit since 1999, which is the longest-running character in the longest-running American primetime drama. [5]
When Detective Benson gets into the middle of an investigation of her brother Simon Marsden (Michael Weston), she takes out the stress on a suspect (Josh Casaubon) and gets suspended. Benson talks to Simon's mother (Maggie Burke), his father's coworker (Graham Winton) and a rape victim (Kathryn Hays) and begins to question whether or not she ...
The characters of Elliot Stabler & Olivia Benson were named for creator Dick Wolf's children. Wolf's third child, daughter Sarina, had a character named for her; Benson's mother was named Serena, as well as former ADA Serena Southerlyn on the original Law & Order and Det. Serena Stevens on Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
Benson explains it’s from the McCanns, who are the parents of Noah’s half brother and met Benson and Noah for the first time in December. Stabler also previously met the McCanns when he once ...
Benson asks defense attorney Bayard Ellis to represent her brother, but the seemingly simple case turns into a disaster for Ellis and his client. As Olivia tries to balance her personal life, the unit lands a case where a homeless couple finds a newborn baby abandoned near a hospital.
Mariska Hargitay has been playing the role of Olivia Benson on Law and Order: Special Victims Unit since 1999, and the character has bled into her real life over the years. "It's deeply in me ...
Noah (Ryan Buggle), the adopted son of Capt. Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay), on "Law & Order: SVU" came across who his father was during a Google search.