Law & Order Power Rankings, Law edition has been chopped into two parts for convenience – you can find the first part here.
6. Annie Parisse (as Alexandra Borgia, seasons 15-16) – She was in Definitely, Maybe. She appeared in two episodes of revered World War II miniseries The Pacific, as well as episodes of Fringe, The Big C and Person of Interest. She was in seven episodes of Rubicon as a love interest for the main character played by James Badge Dale. She appeared in two episodes of Unforgettable. This past year she participated in Shakespeare in the Park plays All’s Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure. Also, strangely enough, her brother is married to Sam Waterston’s daughter.
5. Elisabeth Rohm (as Serena Southerlyn, seasons 11-14) – She was in Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous and TV movies FBI: Negotiator and Amber’s Story. She was in three episodes of Big Shots and single episodes of 90210 and The Mentalist. She was in eight episodes of the fourth and final seasons of Heroes, as Lauren Gilmore, who works with Noah Bennett and has a romantic relationship with him. Recently, she was in Taylor Lautner movie Abduction.
4. Richard Brooks (as Paul Robinette, seasons 1-3) – Brooks was in episodes of Chicago Hope, ER, Diagnosis Murder, Renegade, Nash Bridges, and Brimstone. He was in The Substitute and The Crow: City of Angels. He was a regular in the two season USA show G vs. E in 1999 as an agent in the afterlife who works for Heaven against a group of villains called “Morlocks” from Hell. Afterwards, he was on episodes of NYPD Blue, Dead Last, Firefly, Skin, NCIS and Close to Home. He played a detective in the short-lived 2007 Fox show Drive. Afterwards, he’s been in episodes of Lie to Me, Childrens Hospital and Charlie’s Angels.
3. Dianne Wiest (as Nora Levin, seasons 11-12) – She was a voice in Robots and in A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Dan in Real Life, Synecdoche, New York, Rabbit Hole and The Big Year. She appeared in two seasons of In Treatment as main character Paul Weston’s therapist, who he visited on Friday episodes. Weist won an Emmy award for her work on the show.
2. Jill Hennessy (as Claire Kincaid, seasons 4-6) – Between the end of her Law & Order run, she appeared in Most Wanted and smaller films The Florentine and Row Your Boat. In 2001 she got her next big role, starring as Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh in NBC drama Crossing Jordan. She portrayed a forensic pathologist in Massachusetts who helped solve murders. The show lasted six seasons and almost 120 episodes. She portrayed her character on three episodes of Las Vegas. She was in the movie Wild Hogs and will be in the new HBO horse racing David Milch series Luck.
1. Angie Harmon (as Abby Carmichael, seasons 9-11) – After leaving Law & Order, she was in the direct-to-video Charlie Sheen-Denise Richards starrer Good Advice. She voiced Barbara Gordon in an episode of Batman Beyond. She appeared in Agent Cody Banks and was a main cast member in NBC series Inconceivable, about a group of people who work in fertility clinic (a groan about the title would be appropriate now), which only lasted two episodes. She was in Fun with Dick and Jane and then co-starred in ABC series Women’s Murder Club, which lasted 13 episodes and was based on a series of James Patterson novels. She was in single episodes of Samantha Who? And Chuck. She currently stars as part of the cop and medical examiner partnership Rizzoli and Isles on TNT (one of the worst TV show titles in recent memory). She’s detective Jane Rizzoli to Sasha Alexander’s Maura Isles. The highly rated cable show finished its second season this summer and has been renewed for a third. She gets the slight nod over Hennessey for more variety of career, and the current hit show, though if Hennessey is actually a significant part of Luck, and Luck is successful, the pendulum could swing in her direction.
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