2 l February
20 - 26, 2022
Northeast Oregon TV Weekly
BY GEORGE DICKIE
Camryn Manheim is among
the stars of NBC’s revival of
“Law & Order,” premiering
Thursday.
Camryn Manheim helps maintain
‘Law & Order’
in original series’ revival
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When Camryn Manheim says that
joining the revival of “Law & Order” brings
her “full circle,” she really means it.
The Emmy winner for “The Practice”
had several of her earliest television roles
– three different ones – as a guest star
on executive producer Dick Wolf’s long-
running, franchise-spawning drama series.
She returns to it as a regular for what NBC
is calling its 21st season starting Thursday,
Feb. 24, reinforcing Wolf’s “Chicago”-
show and “FBI” tradition by opening an
all-“Law & Order” night that also includes
the “Special Victims Unit” and “Organized
Crime” spinoffs.
Merging returning cast members and
new additions, “Law & Order” now casts
Manheim as Lt. Kate Dixon, the boss of
the New York police detectives played
by returnee Anthony Anderson (fresh off
“black-ish”) and “Burn Notice” alum Jeffrey
Donovan. Sam Waterston reprises his role
as District Attorney Jack McCoy, and Hugh
Dancy (“Hannibal”) and Odelya Halevi
(“Good Trouble”) also are new to the series
as prosecutors.
“I’d just gotten my master’s degree
from New York University,” the friendly
Manheim recalls, “and like every New
York actor, it was my dream to get a guest
shot on ‘Law & Order.’ I did a lot of Off-
Broadway theater, and everyone would
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write in their program bio who they wanted
to thank ... and at the end, they would
write how many times they’d appeared on
‘Law & Order.’ For several years, I couldn’t
say that, and it was probably one of my
proudest moments when I could add, ‘”Law
& Order“: One episode.’ And then, ‘Two
episodes.’ And then, ‘Three episodes.’ ”
Now, Manheim says, “I’m not going
to lie, I’m still in a little bit of shock. I’m
moving from Los Angeles to New York,
and I would not have done it for any other
show. ”Law & Order“ has such a special
place in my heart, and it’s not just me, but
all of New York. Actors dream to be on
it, crew members’ lives were made by it,
anad the city was vitalized by it. It’s very
profound for me.”
Manheim’s Dixon effectively is the
successor to Lt. Anita Van Buren, played
through most of the original show’s run by
S. Epatha Merkerson (now on NBC’s and
producer Wolf’s “Chicago Med”).
“I think it takes a certain kind of woman
to hold down this fort and make sure that
everything works in tandem,” Manheim
notes, reasoning that Dixon “has to keep
the D.A.’s office happy, she has to keep the
police chief happy, and she has to get her
detectives to do the work: And I think that
with how bossy I am in general, they sensed
that I could bring her to life.”
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