Quiz: Match the ‘Law & Order’ Guest Star With Their ‘SVU’ Crime
- 1/22
James Van Der Beek played a…
a. Photographer who molests his pre-teen models
b. Sexual predator who tracked down his rival’s sperm donor daughters
c. Rapist who preys on women late at night on the subway
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ANSWER: b. Sexual predator who tracked down his rival’s sperm donor daughters
In a 2012 episode, Van Der Beek played a spurned ex-boyfriend who sought revenge on his college sweetheart’s husband by tracking down the young women who were a product of the man’s sperm.
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Rosanna Arquette played a…
a. Former child porn victim who kidnaps children to star in her husband’s child porn videos
b. City councilwoman who secretly holds underage sex parties in her loft
c. Lifestyle guru who is having an affair with her own son
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ANSWER: a. Former child porn victim who kidnaps children to star in her husband’s child porn videos
In Season 15, Arquette helps kidnap a young diabetic boy for the purpose of using him in her husband’s child pornography videos. The detectives work to track the boy down before his insulin pump fails.
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Brad Garrett played a…
a. School janitor who tortures kids inside his supply closet
b. Florist who rapes customers while delivering bouquets
c. Prison guard who assaults female inmates
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ANSWER: c. Prison guard who assaults female inmates
In a multi-episode arc starting with Season 17, Episode 22, Garrett played a corrections officer at Rikers Island who assaults female inmates in and out of prison.
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Elizabeth Mitchell played a…
a. Lawyer who preyed on the juvenile delinquents she represented
b. Religious zealot who killed homeless kids to “save them”
c. Piano teacher who confessed to abusing and murdering a student
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ANSWER: c. Piano teacher who confessed to abusing and murdering a student
In Season 12, Mitchell was June, a piano teacher questioned in the murder of her student. She confessed, but it turned out she was covering up for her sister. Both women had been abused by their own mother as children.
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Martin Short played a…
a. Doctor who spies on patients via a hidden camera in his exam room
b. Psychic and compulsive rapist of virgins
c. Department store Santa Claus who knocked up a teenage elf
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ANSWER: b. Psychic and compulsive rapist of virgins
In Season 6, episode 18, Short played a psychic from Canada who is obsessed with raping virgins. He and his accomplice wife kidnap a virgin nun, but Stabler leans on the wife to give up her location.
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Dean Cain played a…
a. Surgeon who uses dating service to find his rape victims
b. Minor League baseball player with a bat fetish
c. Times Square Superman who flashes tourists
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ANSWER: a. Surgeon who uses dating service to find his rape victims
In Season 7, episode 8, Benson went undercover on a dating service linked to three rapes and found the culprit was Cain’s surgeon.
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Ian Somerhalder played a…
a. Serial killer who also raped his brother
b. Erotic novelist who’s kidnapped and assaulted by a fan
c. Trust fund kid in love with his stepsister
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ANSWER: a. Serial killer who also raped his brother
In Season 4, episode 20, Somerhalder played Charlie, the son of a building super who goes on a killing spree. The sadistic killer made his male victims rape women and each other, and he also raped his own brother.
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John Stamos played a…
a. A peeping Tom/musician in a Beach Boys cover band
b. Foot fetishist who collects his victim’s feet
c. Lawyer obsessed with impregnating women
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ANSWER: c. Lawyer obsessed with impregnating women
In Season 12, episode 22, Stamos was a reproductive abuser who poked holes in his condoms in order to get women pregnant. He claimed to have fathered over 47 children.
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Fred Savage played a…
a. Rapist who stalks his victims after assaulting them
b. “Chuckles” the pedophile birthday clown
c. Serial killer who targets women named “Winnie”
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ANSWER: a. Rapist who stalks his victims after assaulting them
In Season 4, episode 22, Savage played a brilliant rapist who finds ways of stalking and intimidating his victims, despite restraining orders.
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Lou Diamond Phillips played a…
a. Perverted prank phone caller
b. Sex offender who kidnaps two children
c. Writer who has sex with his own books
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ANSWER: b. Sex offender who kidnaps two children
In Season 7, episode 19, Phillips played Paul Gitano, a sex offender who is released from prison and immediately kidnaps two children. He ends up killing the boy, but Benson and Stabler are able to save the girl.
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Joshua Malina played A…
a. Photographer with sadistic fantasies
b. Leader of an underground teenage fighting ring
c. Sports anchor turned porn star
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ANSWER: a. Photographer with sadistic fantasies
In Season 15, episode 23, Malina played a respected photographer who indulges in very dark fantasies about underage boys.
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Law & Order: SVU celebrates its 400th episode Wednesday night, and over the years, the show has drawn many high-profile guest stars. They play murderers, serial rapists, sadistic criminals — the bigger the guest star, the more sadistic the role. Everyone from John Stamos to Fred Savage to Rosanna Arquette has appeared on SVU to wreak havoc and pain.
Here are eleven memorable guest stars from SVU — can you match them to their creepy sexual crimes? (Note: This story was originally published in May 2016.)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit airs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. on NBC.