Title: Law &amp; Order (franchise)
Content:  Orbach playing a defense attorney on the original series before joining it as Det. Lennie Briscoe ; Ice-T playing a pimp known as Seymour Stockton in the franchise's only film, Exiled: A Law & Order Movie, before taking on the role of Tutuola on SVU ; Anthony Anderson playing Detective Lucius Blaine in a seventh-season episode of SVU before playing Bernard on the original Law & Order ; Jeremy Sisto played a defense attorney in the last episode of season 17 before joining the cast as Cyrus Lupo at the start of season 18. ; Kelli Giddish played two different characters on Criminal Intent and SVU before joining 
Title: Law &amp; Order (franchise)
Content: 23 seasons, 503 episodes (September 20, 1999 – present) SVU follows the cases investigated by NYPD Captain Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and her Manhattan Special Victims Unit colleagues. The show's focus is on detectives who investigate sexually based crimes and crimes against children, the elderly, and the disabled. At the start of season twenty-two, these detectives included characters portrayed by Kelli Giddish, Ice-T and Octavio Pisano, while Peter Scanavino co-stars. Season twenty-three premiered on September 21, 2021. In February 2020, the series was renewed through the 24th season.
Title: Law &amp; Order: Special Victims Unit
Content:  Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (often abbreviated to Law & Order: SVU or just SVU) is an American crime drama television series created by Dick Wolf's own production company Wolf Entertainment for NBC. The first spinoff of Law & Order, it starred Christopher Meloni as Det. Elliot Stabler, until departing from the series in 2011 after 12 seasons and Mariska Hargitay as Detective Turned Captain Olivia Benson, the commanding officer of the Special Victims Unit and Stabler's former partner in a fictionalized version of the New York City Police Department. Meloni reprised his role as Stabler in 2021 in the spin-off series in Law & Order: Organized Crime. Law & Order: 
Title: Law &amp; Order: Special Victims Unit
Content:  left Law & Order: SVU as showrunner at the end of season twelve, after eleven years (seasons 2–12) on the show, in order to sign a three-year deal with CBS Studios. Baer was replaced by former Law & Order: Criminal Intent showrunner Warren Leight. In March 2015, it was announced that Warren Leight signed a three-year deal with Sony Pictures Television, that will allow him to work on SVU one more season, its seventeenth. It was announced on March 10, 2016, that original Law & Order veteran producer Rick Eid would take Leight's place as showrunner starting in season 18. Creator Dick Wolf commented to The Hollywood Reporter, "I'm extremely pleased that Rick had decided to rejoin the family and hope 
Title: Law &amp; Order: Special Victims Unit (season 3)
Content:  All second season main cast members returned for the third season of the series. BD Wong returned to play forensic psychiatrist Dr. George Huang. He was originally contracted to appear in two episodes at the end of the second season and two episodes at the beginning of the third. As Wong puts it "They asked me to come and do four episodes as a kind of audition, to see if it worked, and after those four episodes they asked me to stay on." Wong credited the New York-based show with giving him the opportunity to regularly act in theatre. Four cast members of SVU who would recur in subsequent years first appeared in the third season. In "Counterfeit," Robert John Burke began playing NYPD Internal Affairs Sergeant Ed Tucker 
Title: Law &amp; Order: Special Victims Unit (season 7)
Content:  showed three teenage boys on trial for the murder of a teenage girl whose body was never found. Susan Saint James guest starred as their attorney, marking her first television role in ten years. Saint James stated in an interview that she was eager to play a Law & Order part and would have played a judge if it had been up to her. The same interview revealed that she was a long time fan of SVU having watched "almost every episode multiple times." Another Season 7 guest star who mentioned being a fan of the program was Chris "Ludacris" Bridges 
Title: Law &amp; Order: Trial by Jury
Content:  • Law & Order • Jesse L. Martin as Ed Green • Dennis Farina as Joe Fontana • S. Epatha Merkerson as Anita Van Buren • Sam Waterston as Jack McCoy • Carolyn McCormick as Elizabeth Olivet • Leslie Hendrix as Elizabeth Rodgers • Peter McRobbie as Trial Judge Walter Bradley • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit • Christopher Meloni as Elliot Stabler • Mariska Hargitay as Olivia Benson • Richard Belzer as John Munch • Diane Neal as Casey Novak • Tamara Tunie as Melinda Warner
Title: Law &amp; Order: Special Victims Unit (season 11)
Content:   Wentworth Miller guest starred in the first episode as a police officer named Nate Kendall, who saves a rape victim in the beginning of the episode and helps SVU solve the case. In the second episode Eric McCormack played the CEO of a "sugar daddy" dating website named Vance Shepard. Scott Foley played a real-estate developer with severe alcoholism in the fourth episode "Hammered". He said that the interesting role attracted him to the show with: "the character was fully developed with addictions and problems both personally and professionally. Plus... it's SVU, come on!" His character is suspected of murdering an abortion 
Title: Law &amp; Order: Special Victims Unit (season 3)
Content: Susan Pellegrino as Dr. Barrett ; Jill Marie Lawrence as Defense Attorney Cleo Conrad ; Judith Light as Bureau Chief ADA Elizabeth Donnelly ; Audrie Neenan as Judge Marilyn Haynes ; BD Wong as Dr. George Huang ; Ned Eisenberg as Defense Attorney Roger Kressler ; Peter Hermann as Defense Attorney Trevor Langan ; Lou Carbonneau as CSU Forensics Technician Harry Martin ; Joel de la Fuente as TARU Technician Ruben Morales ; Joanna Merlin as Judge Lena Petrovsky Liz Larsen as Defense Attorney Regal ; Harvey Atkin as Judge Alan Ridenour ; Rob Bartlett as Defense Attorney Milton Schoenfeld ; Tom O'Rourke as Judge Mark Seligman ; Daniel Sunjata as CSU Forensics Technician Burt Trevor ; Fernando Lopez as CSU Forensics Technician Ramone Vargas ; Ron Leibman as Executive ADA Stan Villani ; Tamara Tunie as ME Dr. Melinda Warner  
Title: Law &amp; Order: Special Victims Unit (season 2)
Content:  into the SVU squad room again when they were in need of extra manpower for a case. Hurd was replaced by rapper-turned-actor Ice-T, who began portraying Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola. Stephanie March joined the cast as Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cabot when the series was using many guest actors and actresses to portray ADA characters in the first season. Tamara Tunie took on the recurring role of Medical Examiner Melinda Warner, replacing Leslie Hendrix's Law & Order character Chief Medical Examiner Elizabeth Rodgers. BD Wong began portraying FBI Forensic Psychiatrist Dr. George Huang closer to the end of the season, replacing Dr. Emil Skoda (J. K. Simmons).

Question: who plays the prosecutor on law and order svu?
Answer: Raúl Eduardo Esparza.