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Role on “La Brea” (2)
“__: Vegas”
Actor Katz
Prefix for occupied or paid Comic strip Viking
Garden pest
Dr. Derek __; “Grey’s Anatomy” role
Musical disc, for short
Kildare or Quinn: abbr.
Milne’s monogram
__ Ferrigno Jr. of “S.W.A.T.” Wildebeest
Long-eared animal
“The Last Man __ Earth” Stallone’s initials
Actor on “FBI” (2)
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Actor Rex
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Role on “Chicago Fire” (2) DOWN
“Love __ __ Many Splendored Thing”
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Apple tablet
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Series for Oliver Platt (2)
Role on “B Positive” (2) “Eureka!”
Gun rights organization
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Barrett __; “Station 19” actress Fraternity letter
“__ Law”
Stewart or Steiger
Actress Charisse
“__ Shoot Me!”
“__ or High Water”; 2016 movie Sty cry
“Wanted: __ or Alive” (1958-61) “__ Miserables”
Help
Prefix for logical or legal Ming-__ Wen
BY JAY BOBBIN
When Camryn Manheim says that joining the revival of “Law & Order” brings her “full circle,” she really means it.
The Emmy winner for “The Practice” had several of her earliest television roles — three different ones — as a guest star on executive producer Dick Wolf’s long-running, franchisespawning drama series. She returns to it as a regular for what NBC is calling its 21st season starting Thursday, Feb. 24, reinforcing Wolf’s “Chicago”-show and “FBI” tradition by opening an all“Law & Order” night that also includes the “Special Victims Unit” and “Organized Crime” spinoffs.
Merging returning cast members and new additions, “Law & Order” now casts Manheim as Lt. Kate Dixon, the boss of the New York police detectives played by returnee Anthony Anderson (fresh off “black-ish”) and “Burn Notice” alum Jeffrey Donovan. Sam Waterston reprises his role as District Attorney Jack McCoy, and Hugh Dancy (“Hannibal”) and Odelya Halevi (“Good Trouble”) also are new to the series as prosecutors.
“I’d just gotten my master’s degree from New York University,” the friendly Manheim recalls, “and like every New York actor, it was my dream to get a guest shot on ‘Law & Order.’ I did a lot of Off-Broadway theater, and everyone would write in their program bio who they wanted to thank ... and at the end, they would write how many times they’d appeared on ‘Law & Order.’ For several years, I couldn’t say that, and it was probably one of my proudest moments when I could add, ‘”Law & Order“: One episode.’ And then, ‘Two episodes.’ And then, ‘Three episodes.’ ”
Now, Manheim says, “I’m not going to lie, I’m still in a little bit of shock. I’m moving from Los Angeles to New York, and I would not have done it for any other show. ”Law & Order“has such a special place in my heart, and it’s not just me, but all of New York. Actors dream to be on it, crew members’ lives were made by it, and the city was vitalized by it. It’s very profound for me.”
Manheim’s Dixon effectively is the successor to Lt. Anita Van Buren, played through most of the original show’s run by S. Epatha Merkerson (now on NBC’s and producer Wolf’s “Chicago Med”).
“I think it takes a certain kind of woman to hold down this fort and make sure that everything works in tandem,” Manheim notes, reasoning that Dixon “has to keep the D.A.’s office happy, she has to keep the police chief happy, and she has to get her detectives to do the work: And I think that with how bossy I am in general, they sensed that I could bring her to life.”