Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 24 cast and character guide - Who plays whom in the NBC police procedural

Mariska Hargitay in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Image via Instagram: nbclawandorder
Mariska Hargitay in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Image via Instagram: nbclawandorder

Season 24 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit premiered on September 22, 2025. The season brought Mariska Hargitay and her SVU squad back on screen to catch more sinister criminals and depict new and more intriguing tales.

From helping in catching up a teen gang to rescuing more vulnerable women from their perpetrators, the SVU squad solves numerous gripping cases in the season. Furthermore, they also welcome a new member to their squad in Season 24.

Here's a list of the cast and character guide of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 24.


Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 24 cast and character guide

Apart from the SVU squad, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 24 also has several crossover episodes with Law & Order: Organized Crime and Law & Order, due to which Christopher Meloni's Senior Detective Elliot Stabler and Jeffrey Donovan's Senior Detective Frank Cosgrove, among several others, also appear in some episodes of Season 24.

Here is the cast and character guide of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 24:

1) Mariska Hargitay as Captain Olivia Benson

Hargitay's Olivia Benson has been part of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit since Season 1, when she was a Junior Detective. She gradually got promoted and began leading the SVU squad. Benson is known for her passion to be able to help the victims, who are mostly vulnerable women. Therefore, in Season 24, she helps various victims and also helps the other squads in bigger cases.

Hargitay has appeared in acclaimed TV shows such as ER, Seinfeld, and Falcon Crest, among others.


2) Peter Scanavino as Assistant District Attorney Dominick Carisi, Jr.

Scanavino's character of ADA Carisi, also known as Sonny, is among the most important characters of the series. He is first introduced as a rookie detective in Season 16. By Season 21, he leaves the NYPD and decides to become an ADA.

Even while dealing with conflicts with his new boss and his old SVU colleagues, he learns to help the victims and get the criminals behind bars. Season 24 is an important season for him and Detective Amanda Rollins as they both get married in this season.

The American actor has appeared in shows such as The Leftovers, Banshee, Chicago P.D., and The Good Wife, among others.


3) Ice-T as Sergeant Odafin Tutuola

Ice-T's Tutuola or Fin is part of the SVU team. T's character has been part of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit since Season 2. Initially, he had difficulty adjusting to the SVU squad due to his views about the criminals and wanted to treat everyone equally, which also landed him in trouble a couple of times. However, he learned and became a crucial part of the team.

The rapper and actor has been a part of TV shows such as New York Undercover, Chicago P.D., 30 Rock, and V.I.P.


4) Octavio Pisano as Junior Detective Joe Velasco

Pisano's character Joe Velasco joined the SVU squad in Season 23. While hiding his troubling past, Velasco became an integral part of the team and was known for his successful undercover missions.

The American actor has appeared in shows such as Coyote and If Loving You Is Wrong.


5) Kelli Giddish as Senior Detective Amanda Rollins

Giddish's character, Detective Rollins, has been a part of the procedural series since 2011. Season 24 was crucial in Rollins's life as she was dealing with PTSD after being shot during a case, which affected her personal life, including her children.

The popular American actress has also appeared in TV shows such as The Good Wife, Past Life, Chase, and the fan-favorite daily soap, All My Children.


6) Molly Burnett as Junior Detective Grace Muncy

Burnett's Grace Muncy gets to work with the SVU squad when they solve a case of a teen gang together in Season 24. She later joins the squad but struggles to fit in. Fin and Velasco later step in to help her adjust to her new squad.

Burnett has appeared in daily soaps such as Days of Our Lives and General Hospital, and has also been part of other popular shows such as True Blood and CSI: Cyber.


Supporting cast and character guide of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 24

The supporting cast and character guide of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 24 are as follows:

  • Adrian Alvarado as Detective Ray Fernandez
  • Terry Serpico as Chief Tommy McGrath
  • Anjali Bhimani as Nisha Singh
  • Maurice Compte as Captain Mike Duarte
  • Kevin Kane as Detective Terry Bruno
  • Frank Wood as Medical Examiner Abel Truman
  • Aida Turturro as Judge Felicia Catano
  • Erin Anderson as Attorney April Andrews
  • Kadia Saraf as US Attorney Anya Avital
  • Betty Buckley as Trial Division Chief Assistant District Attorney Lorraine Maxwell

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Edited by Debashri Roy