Carolyn McCormick - wikipedia Carolyn McCormick Carolyn McCormick Carolyn Inez McCormick ( 1959 - 09 - 19 ) September 19, 1959 ( age 58 ) Midland, Texas, United States Alma mater Williams College Occupation Actress Years active 1985 -- present Spouse ( s ) Byron Jennings ( ? - present ; 2 sons ) Website www.carolynmccormick.com Carolyn Inez McCormick ( born September 19, 1959 ) is an American actress best known for her role as Dr. Elizabeth Olivet in the Law & Order franchise. Contents 1 Life and career 2 Filmography 3 References 4 External links Life and career McCormick was born and raised in Midland, Texas, and graduated first in her class from The Kinkaid School in Houston in 1977. She graduated with honors from Williams College in 1981 with a B.F.A.. She also holds an M.F.A. from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. She has worked in television, movies, theatre, and voice acting. Her break into film was Enemy Mine directed by Wolfgang Petersen with Dennis Quaid. Other film credits include Woody Allen 's Whatever Works, You Know My Name with Sam Elliott, and A Simple Twist of Fate with Steve Martin. Her first notable television credit was district Attorney Rita Fiore in Spenser : For Hire, a role she played from 1986 to 1987. She appeared as the holodeck simulation Minuet in `` 11001001 '', a first - season episode of Star Trek : The Next Generation, and later as Minuet Riker ( William Riker 's wife ) in a fantasy - alternate universe during the fourth - season episode `` Future Imperfect ''. The role she would become best known for was on NBC network as Dr. Elizabeth Olivet on Law & Order, appearing in approximately half of the series episodes between 1994 and 2006. In 1997, she played the unhappy wife of a police psychiatrist played by Robert Pastorelli in the short - lived Americanized version of the British series Cracker. She has been a guest star on series including Madam Secretary, Elementary, Blue Bloods, Judging Amy, The Practice, Body of Proof, Cold Case, Homicide : Life on the Street, and LA Law. She also performs on stage. She appeared at the Off - Broadway Cherry Hill Theatre in Eve - olution with The Cosby Show star Sabrina Le Beauf in 2004. She has also appeared in Dinner with Friends, Oedipus, Ancestral Voices, The Donahue Sisters, Laureen 's Whereabouts and In Perpetuity. She worked with Thomas Kail at The Flea Theatre in A.R. Gurney 's Family Furniture ( 2013 ). In 2015 she appeared in Vanya, Sonya, Masha and Spike at the PaperMill Playhouse and What I Did Last Summer at the Signature 2015. She appeared in the Broadway productions of The Dinner Party in 2001 as Mariette Levieux, Private Lives ( standby ) in 2002, and in Equus in 2008 as Dora Strang. In 2012 she appeared opposite her husband, Byron Jennings, in the Off - Broadway production of Ten Chimneys. She appeared Off - Broadway in Will Eno 's play The Open House in 2014 ( Lucille Lortel nomination, Drama Desk Award ) She has recorded many audio books, including the Hunger Games series, and has narrated many Ken Burns documentaries. Filmography Year Title Role Notes 1985 Enemy Mine Morse 1986 -- 1987 Spenser : For Hire Asst. Dist. Atty. Rita Fiore 22 episodes 1988 -- 1990 Star Trek : The Next Generation Minuet 2 episodes 1991 -- 2009 Law & Order Dr. Elizabeth Olivet 87 episodes ( 1991 -- 1997, 1999, 2002 -- 2010 ) A Simple Twist of Fate Elaine McCann Homicide : Life on the Street Linda Mariner 2 episodes 1997 -- 1999 Cracker Judith Fitzgerald 16 episodes 1998 The Warlord : Battle for the Galaxy Rula Kor TV movie 1999 You Know My Name Zoe 1999 -- 2001 & 2013 Law & Order : Special Victims Unit Dr. Elizabeth Olivet 4 episodes Women Docs Narrator 2001 -- 2004 Judging Amy AAG Ellis Bonham 3 episodes 2002 Emmett 's Mark Mrs. Carlin This Is Not a Chair Mrs. Morrison 2005 Loverboy Ruth the Realtor Law & Order : Trial by Jury Dr. Elizabeth Olivet 1 episode 2006 Law & Order : Criminal Intent Dr. Elizabeth Olivet 1 episode 2007 Cold Case Elizabeth Stone Kevin Bray 2008 Nights in Rodanthe Jenny 2009 Whatever Works Jessica The National Parks : America 's Best Idea Various historical figures ( voice ) The Hunger Games Audiobook Narrator Catching Fire Audiobook Narrator Mockingjay Audiobook Narrator True Nature Becky Pascal Downtown Express Marie One Life to Live Judge Burdett 3 episodes 2011 Body of Proof Gwen Baldwin Episode : `` Dead Man Walking '' The Miraculous Year The Realtor Kathryn Bigelow 2012 The Dust Bowl Voice of Caroline Henderson Ken Burns 2013 Blue Bloods Joyce Powers Oz Scott Mind Games Victoria Hood Romeo Tirone Murder in Manhattan Laura Cherie Nowlan 2015 Elementary Denise Davis Michael Pressman 2016 Madam Secretary White House Doctor Rob J. Greenly The Interestings Betsy Wolf Mike Newell 2017 The Blacklist : Redemption Meryl Jensen Donald E. Thorin Jr. Billions Steph Green References Jump up ^ http://www.broadway.com/buzz/163544/married-couple-byron-jennings-and-carolyn-mccormick-to-star-in-lunt-and-fontanne-bio-play-ten-chimneys/ Jump up ^ Carolyn Mccormick Biography ( 1959 - ) filmreference.com Jump up ^ www.carolynmccormick.com Official site Jump up ^ Gans, Andrew. `` ' Eve - Olution ' -- with `` Cosby '' Star Le Beauf -- to Close Dec. 12 '' Archived March 13, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. playbill.com, December 8, 2004 Jump up ^ `` Broadway credits '' Internet Broadway Database, accessed March 4, 2014 Jump up ^ Gans, Andrew. `` Byron Jennings and Carolyn McCormick Are The Lunts in Off - Broadway 's Ten Chimneys, Opening Oct. 3 '' Archived May 30, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. playbill.com, October 3, 2012 Jump up ^ Murray, Matthew. `` Off - Broadway Review. Open House '' talkinbroadway.com, March 3, 2014 Jump up ^ McCormick 's hair was bleached blonde for this role. She had been recruited to take over for Barbara Stock 's character of Susan Silverman, Spenser 's girlfriend in the stories. This proved to be an unpopular decision, and Stock returned the next season. External links Carolyn McCormick on IMDb Carolyn McCormick at the Internet Broadway Database Carolyn McCormick at the Internet Off - Broadway Database VIAF : 58785620 LCCN : no2004015624 GND : 1053316712 MusicBrainz : 412676bf - d607 - 4af3 - 91af - 6ace9e27f378 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carolyn_McCormick&oldid=794639589 '' Categories : 1959 births American stage actresses American television actresses American voice actresses Living people People from Midland, Texas The Kinkaid School alumni Williams College alumni Actresses from Texas 20th - century American actresses 21st - century American actresses Hidden categories : Webarchive template wayback links Articles with hCards Articles with IBDb links Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch فارسی 한국어 Bahasa Indonesia Italiano Nederlands Русский Edit links This page was last edited on 9 August 2017, at 05 : 40. 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Question: who played minuet on star trek the next generation
Answer: Carolyn Inez McCormick