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The 24th season ofLaw & Order: SVUwill be the last for starKelli Giddish, who has confirmed she will exit the show after more than a decade.
The 42-year-old actress, who portrays Detective Amanda Rollins on the NBC series, began her statement to PEOPLE on Wednesday: “I wanted to address the chatter I’ve seen online and let everyone know that this will, indeed, be my last season onLaw & Order: SVU.
“I want to thankDick Wolf,Mariska Hargitay, Peter Jankowski, NBC, Universal Television, all of my co-stars, every single member on the crew and all the writers here for our incredible work together these last 12 years,” Giddish continued. “I’m so excited to take all the things I have learned in my time on SVU and put them toward everything that’s next to come.”
The actress shared the same caption onInstagramalongside a series of photos of her in character.
Giddish has been on the show through the births of her two children, and the writers even turned her real-life pregnancies into storylines for her Rollins.
Giddish shares Ludo, 6, and Charlie, 3, with ex-husband Lawrence Faulborn. She has been married to Beau Richards since November 2021.
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The announcement of her departure came the same day as theLaw & Orderfranchise announced a historic crossover between all three of its hit shows:Law & Order,SVUandOrganized Crime.
The crossover event will bring characters from all three shows “into a singular and all-encompassing” plot.
NBC announced that Hargitay (Capt. Olivia Benson),Sam Waterston(Jack McCoy),Hugh Dancy(Nolan Price),Christopher Meloni(Det. Elliopt Stabler) and more will team up in the historic crossover event.
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The crossover will kick off the new seasons of all three shows on Sept. 22 starting at 8 p.m. ET on NBC
source: people.com
