(Law and Order)

Elliot

Elliot Stabler was a detective in the Special Victims Unit of the city of Manhattan and Olivia Benson's partner for about twelve years. He is also the husband of Kathy Stabler, with whom he had 5 children in total. Elliot was born on October 20, 1966 in the city of Bayside, Queens to a family of Irish origin devoted to the Catholic religion and the last of six siblings. When he was three years old, while traveling with his mother on Broadway during a snowstorm, her mother during a manic phase due to her bipolar disorder almost ended Elliot's life by crashing her car into a streetlight full of snowflakes. During his childhood, Elliot attended the Sisters of Mercy School being devoted to religion and was constantly abused by his father both physically and emotionally; thus losing his childhood completely and when he was old enough to leave home he maintained little communication with his mother. At some point, Elliot met a woman named Kathy and married her in 1984 when they were only 17 years old; and as a result of their deep love they had five children in total: Maureen, Kathleen, Elizabeth, Richard and Elliot Jr.

Olivia

Olivia Benson is the commanding officer of the Special Victims Unit of the City of Manhattan. Following the retirement of Donald Cragen from the position. Olivia previously worked as a detective in the unit alongside her partner Elliot Stabler for 12 years and later partnered with Nick Amaro upon her former partner's resignation to become a sergeant. When she was a detective, her badge number was 4015. When she was a sergeant, her badge number was 01139, and as a lieutenant, she no longer has a badge number. Olivia was born in Manhattan in 1968 to the rape of her mother Serena Benson by Joseph Hollister, a grocery clerk, who subsequently took his own life. At the time of the rape, Serena had been working in the cafeteria at Columbia University. Benson's mother, Serena, was an alcoholic who emotionally and physically abused Benson. Serena died from injuries sustained in a drunken fall in 2000, leaving Benson deeply disturbed.

Law and Order History

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (or simply Law & Order: SVU; titled as La ley y el orden: unidad de afectados por favor o La ley y el orden: UVE in Latin America and Ley y orden: unidad de afectados por favor o Ley y orden: UVE in Spain) is an American police, legal, procedural and crime drama television series set in New York City where it is also primarily produced. In the style of the original Law & Order, episodes are often "ripped from the headlines" or based on actual crimes that have received media attention. Created by Dick Wolf, the series premiered on NBC on September 20, 1999, as the second series in the highly successful Law & Order franchise. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit has been nominated for and won numerous awards, including the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for Mariska Hargitay, the first, and to date, only Emmy to be received by a regular on any Law & Order series franchise. It is the longest-running non-animated American scripted primetime television series since the cancellation of the original Law & Order on May 24, 2010, and is the fourth-longest-running American primetime series on a major broadcast network. Protagonists Christopher Meloni Mariska Hargitay Richard Belzer Dann Florek Michelle Hurd Stephanie March Ice-T BD Wong Diane Neal Tamara Tunie Adam Beach Michaela McManus Danny Pino Kelli Giddish Raul Esparza Peter Scanavino Philip Winchester Jamie Gray Hyder Demore Barnes Octavio Pisano Molly Burnett Kevin Kane Juliana Aiden Martinez