Maura Tierney Boards ‘Legislation & Order’ for Season 24

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Legislation & Order is placing a brand new cop on the case for its twenty fourth season.

Two-time Emmy nominee Maura Tierney is becoming a member of the NBC drama’s ensemble within the fall, enjoying an NYPD lieutenant. Her casting comes after Camryn Manheim departed the sequence after three seasons of enjoying Lt. Kate Dixon.

Tierney is the second new(ish) castmember on the long-running crime procedural; Tony Goldwyn joined L&O halfway via final season after the departure of the present’s longest-serving castmember, Sam Waterston.

A two-time Emmy nominee, Tierney has starred in two NBC sequence beforehand: NewsRadio from 1995-99 and ER from 1999-2009. She earned her first Emmy nomination for enjoying Abby Lockhart on ER in 2001. She additionally has a historical past, albeit a short one, with Legislation & Order, having guest-starred in an episode of the present’s second season in 1991.

Tierney is presently co-starring in Twisters, which tore up the field workplace in its opening weekend. Her current credit additionally embody Showtime’s The Affair and Your Honor and The Iron Claw. She is repped by UTA and Untitled Leisure.

Tierney joins a Legislation & Order forged that additionally contains Mehcad Brooks, Reid Scott, Hugh Dancy and Odelya Halevi. The present’s twenty fourth season is scheduled to premiere Oct. 3.