Law & Order: Special Victims Unit season 21
The season that made SVU the longest-running prime-time drama.
With this season, the series became the longest-running American prime-time drama in history.
Quick Facts
- Season number
- 21
- Starring
- Mariska Hargitay
- Kelli Giddish
- Ice-T
- Peter Scanavino
- Jamie Gray Hyder
- Episodes
- 20
- Network
- NBC
- First aired
- 26 September 2019
- Last aired
- 23 April 2020
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Cast
Jenna Stern reprised her role as Elana Barth in the season premiere, and Peter Gallagher returned as Deputy Chief William Dodds in the first episode. Ian McShane guest-starred as a media mogul accused of sexual assault. Ariel Winter appeared in the second episode, "The Darkest Journey Home. Amy Hargreaves recurred as psychologist Dr. Alexis Hanover, who taught the team a technique requiring them to recall past traumas. Dorothi Fox appeared in the sixth episode as a patient, and Margaret Cho guest-starred in the seventh episode as a massage-parlor manager involved in a sex-trafficking sting.
Production
Warren Leight returned as showrunner, having previously held the role for seasons thirteen through seventeen. Jamie Gray Hyder was promoted to main cast as Detective-in-training Katriona Tamin from the eighth episode.
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