A fan-favorite character is formally returning to Legislation & Order: Particular Victims Unit following their exit from the sequence.
The Legislation & Order spinoff initially adopted Detective Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni), who exited the sequence in 2011 after 12 seasons, although it now stars Mariska Hargitay as Captain Olivia Benson and Ice-T as Sergeant Fin Tutuola, members of NYPD’s Particular Victims Unit, an elite group of detectives who examine sexual assault, baby abuse, and home violence. Kelli Giddish, Peter Scanavino, and Kevin Kane additionally star.
Now, based on Deadline, Octavio Pisano is returning as Detective Joe Velasco in Legislation & Order: SVU season 27. The actor is presently filming an episode in New York, and sources near the manufacturing say his character will probably be working undercover. Particulars about when he’ll seem and what these episodes will cowl will probably be introduced at a later date.
Pisano departed the Legislation & Order spinoff as a sequence common in October 2025, when his character left SVU to take an undercover DEA project in San Diego targeted on drug trafficking. That transfer left the door open for him to return in a recurring or visitor capability, which is the case right here. He’s confirmed to seem in at the very least one episode, although his whole variety of appearances hasn’t been decided but.
Pisano first got here aboard the long-running procedural as a recurring solid member in season 23, and only a month later, in October 2021, he was promoted to a sequence common after Velasco had change into a fan-favorite character. Pisano has additionally portrayed Velasco in three crossover episodes on Legislation & Order: Organized Crime.
Along with starring on Legislation & Order: SVU, Pisano additionally made his characteristic directorial debut with Moist Underneath Blue Sky, a boxing drama which he additionally wrote and stars in.
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September 20, 1999
- Showrunner
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Michael S. Chernuchin, David Graziano
- Administrators
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Jean de Segonzac, David Platt, Peter Leto, Alex Chapple, Juan José Campanella, Norberto Barba, Constantine Makris, Martha Mitchell, Arthur W. Forney, Michael Slovis, Steve Shill, Alex Zakrzewski, Michael Pressman, Helen Shaver, Mariska Hargitay, Michael Smith, Ted Kotcheff, Fred Berner, Jonathan Kaplan, Holly Dale, Jonathan Herron, Jud Taylor, Adam Bernstein, Jim McKay
- Writers
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Judith McCreary, David Graziano, Michael S. Chernuchin, Daniel Really, Jonathan Greene, Amanda Inexperienced, Lisa Marie Petersen, Allison Intrieri, Lawrence Kaplow, Jose Molina, Matt Klypka, Michael R. Perry, Samantha Corbin-Miller, Barbie Kligman, Robert F. Campbell, Candice Sanchez McFarlane, Gwendolyn M. Parker, René Balcer, Robert Nathan, Wendy West, Pace Weed, Ryan Causey, Chris Brancato, Christos N. Gage
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Mariska Hargitay
Olivia Benson
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Ice-T
Odafin ‘Fin’ Tutuola