‘Law & Order: Organized Crime’ Season 5 Casts Olivia Thirlby (EXCLUSIVE)
Olivia Thirlby has joined the cast of “Law & Order: Organized Crime” Season 5, Variety has learned exclusively from sources.
Thirlby will appear in a recurring role in the new season of the series, though exact details of her character are being kept under wraps. It was previously announced that “Law & Order: Organized Crime” would be moving from NBC to Peacock for its fifth season.
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Reps for NBCUniversal declined to comment.
Thirlby has primarily worked in film during her career, recently starring in Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-winning feature “Oppenheimer” in the role of Dr. Lilli Hornig. She has also starred in films like “Dumb Money,” “The Stanford Prison Experiment,” “Dredd,” “The Wackness,” and “Juno.” In television, she most recently starred in the FX series adaptation of “Y: The Last Man” and is known for other shows such as “Goliath,” “The L Word: Generation Q,” and “Bored to Death.”
She is repped by Verve, 3 Arts Entertainment, and Hansen Jacobson.
Christopher Meloni stars in “Law & Order: Organized Crime,” reprising the role of Elliot Stabler, whom he played for more than a decade on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.” The show also stars Danielle Moné Truitt, Rick Gonzalez, and Ainsley Seiger. In the series, Stabler returns to New York and joins the Organized Crime Control Bureau, taking on dangerous crime syndicates throughout the city.
Dick Wolf created the series along with Matt Olmstead and Ilene Chaiken. Wolf executive produces along with John Shiban, Paul Cabbad, Jon Cassar, Arthur Forney, Meloni, and Peter Jankowski. Shiban serves as showrunner and will return in that role for Season 5. Universal Television produces in association with Wolf Entertainment.
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