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28 actors who owe their fame to “Law and Order”

Posted by / January 16, 2014

Mental Floss offers more proof that Law and Order is the greatest film franchise of all time. Take a look at some of the twenty-eight stars who started out on L&O:

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Fifteen years before he was clearing space on his bookshelf for a Best Actor Oscar, Philip Seymour Hoffman made his on-screen debut in Law & Order’s first season playing a drug dealer-turned-rape suspect. (The 1991 episode, “The Violence of Summer,” is also notable for being one of the few in which “Order” comes before the “Law.”)

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A year before he began giving sideways glances to the documentary crew of The Office for nine seasons, John Krasinski was the anti-Jim Halpert when he played a violent—and possibly homicidal—high school basketball player facing off against Vincent D’Onofrio in a 2004 Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Full story at Mental Floss.

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