page_title: List of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit characters
section_title: Other minor characters
hierarchical_section_title: List of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit characters / Minor characters / Other minor characters
caption_attribution_description: English: Adam BaldwinAdam Baldwin
context_page_description: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a spin-off of the crime drama Law & Order, follows the detectives who work in the "Special Victims Unit" of the 16th Precinct of the New York City Police Department, a unit that focuses on crimes involving rape, sexual assault, and child molestation, as well as any crime loosely connected with any of the three, such as domestic violence, kidnapping, and child abandonment. Since its debut in September 1999, the series has followed the career of Olivia Benson, as she progresses from the rank of Detective, working with a partner, to Lieutenant, replacing Donald Cragen as commanding officer of SVU, and then to Captain. The unit also has a prosecutor assigned from the District Attorney's office, and frequently interacts with medical examiners and psychiatrists.
context_section_description: Detective Kenneth "Ken" Briscoe, portrayed by Chris Orbach (season 1) is the nephew of 27th Homicide Precinct detective, Lennie Briscoe (Jerry Orbach, Chris is his son). Ken Briscoe was more of an extra detective in the SVU precinct, consulting on cases with Detectives Benson, Stabler, Munch, and Jefferies. He was in the episode "Entitled" with his uncle, Lennie. It's been unknown what happened to Ken Briscoe as his last on-screen episode was "Contact". The character was set to return after more than twelve years in the season 14 episode "Manhattan Vigil" in flashback scenes. However, during final editing of the episode, Dick Wolf reported the character's scenes had been removed.
  Bureau Chief Muldrew, portrayed by John Schuck (episodes: "Outcry", "Haunted", "Storm", "Screwed", "Signature", "Inconceivable", "Anchor", "Shadow") is the NYPD Chief of Detectives who served as Captain Cragen's commanding officer.
  Christine Danielson, portrayed by Gloria Reuben (episodes: "Snitch", "Merchandise" & "Dirty") is the Homicide Bureau Chief ADA (a role Cabot had a year prior, in Conviction) prosecuting a case in which a Nigerian polygamist's wife is killed, and the husband fears that his testifying in a crime may have led to his wife's demise. Danielson returns in the twelfth season, this time as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. To assist in the first conviction of a child trafficking case in the New York area, she deputizes Benson and Stabler as U.S. marshals. Danielson returns again in the season, to help Benson investigate the murder of a corrupt Brooklyn ADA.
  Captain Steven Harris, portrayed by Adam Baldwin (episodes: "Lost Reputation", "Above Suspicion", "Twenty-Five Acts") is the Special Victims Unit interim captain who is installed by the Public Integrity Bureau Chief ADA Paula Foster for the first three episodes of the 14th season while Cragen is suspended. A by-the-book commanding officer, Harris warns the SVU detectives not to investigate Cragen's murder case, which they ignore, and criticizes the way Detective Tutuola dresses, citing the business attire dress code. When Detective Cassidy is shot while undercover in a hit arranged by his own boss, Harris backs Olivia during the Internal Affairs investigation. In "Twenty-Five Acts", Harris gives a nod to Amaro's request to work a case solo, pairing Benson with Rollins. He departs at the end of the episode, as Captain Cragen returns from suspension.
  NYPD Lab Tech Colin Bennett, portrayed by Max Baker (episodes: "Justice Denied," "Brief Interlude," "Criminal Pathology," "Know It All") is an NYPD Crime Lab technician known as Fin's "rope guy," Bennett specifically specializes in types of rope found at crime scenes. He is first introduced in "Justice Denied" where a rapist strikes during Fleet Week and uses an M.O. specific to a perpetrator that Benson had arrested in 2004. Bennett helped analyze the knots that were tied in the differing crime scenes. In the season eighteen episode "Know It All", Bennett and ADA Barba are blackmailed by a rapist to make his case and the evidence disappear. Bennett makes an attempt to lead the SVU detectives astray with his "findings" during the investigation until Detectives Tutuola and Rollins discover the truth, as Bennett attempts suicide due to the guilt of tampering with the case.
  Kim Rollins, portrayed by Lindsay Pulsipher (episodes: "Friending Emily", "Deadly Ambition", "Maternal Instincts",  "Heightened Emotions") is Detective Amanda Rollins' sister, who comes to New York in the season 14 episode, "Friending Emily". She frequently interrupts Amanda while she is working an abduction case, and at the end of the episode, Amanda draws her gun on Kim's ex-boyfriend, who is in her apartment with Kim, telling him to get out. Later in the episode "Deadly Ambition", Kim returns to New York, beaten and pregnant with her ex-boyfriend's baby. When Amanda hears screams from inside her apartment, she finds Kim's ex-boyfriend attacking Kim, and Amanda shoots the man as he pulls a gun on her. After her initial interview w
caption: Steven Harris was portrayed by Adam Baldwin in episodes "Lost Reputation", "Above Suspicion" & "Twenty-Five Acts".
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