Camryn Manheim will go away Law & Order subsequent the season 23 finale.
Manheim, 63, portrays Lieutenant Kate Dixon, joined the solid when NBC revived the collection in 2021. The May possibly 16 season finale will be her 48th and closing episode.
“I thank Camryn for her 3 excellent seasons serving to us relaunch Legislation & Buy,” creator Dick Wolf reported in a statement on Friday, May well 10. “She is a class act, and I wish her almost nothing but the finest for her next chapter.”
Even though Manheim turned acknowledged on the sequence for actively playing Dixon, the commanding officer of the Manhattan North Homicide Squad, that wasn’t basically her very first character in the franchise. She appeared in a visitor spot for the duration of the show’s very first season in 1991 and returned playing other figures in 1993 and 1994.
“I had the most amazing expertise becoming a component of the Law & Buy Universe, and more importantly the Wolfpack,” Manheim wrote by using Instagram on Friday. “I’m so thankful for the 3 amazing seasons that I put in with this wildly gifted forged of merry pranksters. Mehcad Brooks, Reid Scott, Connie Shi, Anthony Anderson, Jeffrey Donovan, Hugh Dancy, Odelya Halevi, Tony Goldwyn and Sam Waterston. Not to mention the stellar visitor stars that came in and out of the studio doors.”
Manheim’s departure follows that of Waterston, who played District Lawyer Jack McCoy in 405 episodes from 1994 to 2024. His final visual appeal arrived in February, and Goldwyn, 63, has considering the fact that replaced him, actively playing new DA Nick Baxter.
“Greetings, you superb men and women. It is a enjoyment to talk right like this to the backbone of Legislation & Buy’s totally wonderful viewers,” Waterston, 83, advised The Hollywood Reporter at the time of his departure. “The time has come for me to transfer on and consider Jack McCoy with me. There’s disappointment in leaving, but I’m just as well curious about what’s subsequent. An actor does not want to permit himself get far too relaxed. I’m far more grateful to you than I can say.”
Manheim and Waterston’s exits come on the heels of Donovan, who performed Detective Frank Cosgrove, leaving the display very last season. In season 21, Anderson left, with his character remaining changed by Brooks.
When Manheim initial joined the cast as a series regular in the course of Legislation & Buy’s revival, she came in to exchange S. Epatha Merkerson. Merkerson, 71, played Lieutenant Anita Van Buren from 1993 to 2010, when the show was initially canceled.
Law & Purchase has now been renewed for a 24th year amid a 56 percent viewership bump from season 22.
