‘Law & Order: Organized Crime’: Tamara Taylor Joins NBC’s ‘SVU’ Spinoff

Nellie Andreeva
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EXCLUSIVE: Bones alumna Tamara Taylor is set as a lead opposite Christopher Meloni and Dylan McDermott in Law & Order: Organized Crime, NBC’s Law & Order: SVU spinoff series slated to premiere later this year.

In Law & Order: Organized Crime, Elliot Stabler (Meloni) returns to the NYPD to battle organized crime after a devastating personal loss. Stabler will aim to rebuild his life as part of a new elite task force that is taking apart the city’s most powerful criminal syndicates one by one. Meloni who also is reprising his role as Stabler on SVU this season. No information about the other Organized Crime characters is being released.

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Law & Order: Organized Crime was created by Dick Wolf, who will executive produce along with showrunner Ilene Chaiken, Terry Miller, Fred Berner, Arthur W. Forney and Peter Jankowski.

The series is produced by Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.

Taylor is known for her series regular role as Camille Saroyan on 11 seasons on Fox’s popular procedural Bones. She made her feature film debut in Tyler Perry’s Diary of a Mad Black Woman, appeared opposite Joel Kinnaman in Season 1 of Netflix’s Altered Carbon and was the lead of Netflix’s sci-fi drama October Faction.

Taylor is repped by Greene & Associates Talent Agency, Industry Entertainment and Manifest Talent Group

UPDATE: Taylor posted a reaction to her casting on Twitter.

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