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Onward and upward! Legislation & Order: SVU star Kelli Giddish revealed her time on the long-running crime sequence has come to an finish after portraying Detective Amanda Rollins for over a decade.
“I wished to handle the chatter I’ve seen on-line and let everybody know that this can, certainly, be my final season on Legislation & Order: SVU,” Giddish, 42, wrote by way of Instagram on Wednesday, August 24, alongside a carousel of photos of herself from the present. “Taking part in Rollins has been one of many best joys and privileges of my life. I’ve been so lucky to be part of the Legislation & Order household for the final 12 years.”
Whereas the actress didn’t disclose her motive for leaving the Emmy-winning sequence, she added that she was “grateful I obtained to spend so lots of my grownup years with Rollins in my life,” including that she has “grown and altered” alongside a personality like “no different” on TV.
Giddish first appeared on SVU in 2007, when she performed Kara Bawson within the episode “Outsider.” By 2012, she scored a recurring position as Rollins. The Florida native has since been on the police program via the births of her two youngsters — sons Ludo, 6, and Charlie, 3, whom she shares with ex-husband Lawrence Faulborn — and two marriages. The actress and Faulborn had been married for 3 years earlier than divorcing in 2018. Giddish then moved on with Beau Richards, tying the knot in November 2021.
In season 17, SVU even included Giddish’s first being pregnant into the plot, with Rollins and former commanding officer Declan Murphy (Donal Logue) saying they had been welcoming a baby collectively. Her second being pregnant was additionally written into her character’s season 20 storyline.
“I wish to thank Dick Wolf, Mariska Hargitay, Warren Leight, Peter Jankowski, NBC, Common Tv, all of my co-stars, each single member on the crew and all of the writers right here for our unimaginable work collectively these final 12 years,” the Previous Life alum stated in her assertion on Wednesday. “I’m so excited to take all of the issues I’ve discovered in my time on ‘SVU’ and put them towards all the things that’s subsequent to come back.”
In keeping with an NBC press launch, the All My Youngsters alum, who will possible depart the present someplace round midseason, is ready to reprise her position because the detective in a three-hour Legislation & Order crossover particular airing Thursday, September 22.
The crossover occasion, which is able to carry characters from all three exhibits into an “all-encompassing plot,” will heart on the dying of a mysterious younger lady. Detectives Frank Cosgrove (Jeffrey Donovan), Jalen Shaw (Mehcad Brooks) will lead the investigative efforts to trace the killer, with an help from Captain Olivia Benson (Hargitay) and Detective Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni).
