Kelli Giddish To Return To ‘Law & Order’ Franchise In ‘SVU’ And ‘Organized Crime’

Kelli Giddish is set to return as Amanda Rollins in both Law & Order: SVU and Law & Order: Organized Crime, Deadline confirmed Tuesday. She will appear in the Season 24 finale of SVU and the penultimate episode of OC‘s Season 3.

Giddish said in August that she’d be leaving the Law & Order-verse, with Rollins set to make her final appearance in a December episode where her character married ADA Sonny Carisi Jr (Peter Scanavino). Rollins also revealed she was on a new career path and had accepted a teaching job at Fordham University. When she returns, she will surprise her former colleagues with news that she is pregnant.

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“Playing Rollins has been one of the greatest joys and privileges of my life,” she posted on social media last year announcing her exit. “I’ve been so fortunate to be a part of the Law & Order family for the last 12 years. There is simply no other character on TV like Rollins. She’s grown and changed, and I have as well. I started on this show when I was in my late 20s and I’m grateful I got to spend so many of my adult years with Rollins in my life.”

TVLine was first to report the news.

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