Mariska Hargitay is prepared for a while away from the cameras and delivered an emotional goodbye in additional methods than one this week. 

The Legislation & Order SVU veteran shared an replace in regards to the NBC present earlier than including unhappy information of somebody very particular to her and the drama. 

Taking to Instagram, Mariska posted a photograph of herself alongside her solid mates and revealed they’d wrapped filming on the present season. 

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She wrote: “And that’s a wrap on season 26! Thanks workforce joyful hiatus,” and her followers and well-known mates commented that they’re going to miss seeing her on TV however to take pleasure in her break. 

Nevertheless, Mariska’s subsequent social media publish sparked a unique response as she paid tribute to legendary TV and movie director and producer Ted Kotcheff whose enormous physique of labor included many episodes of Legislation & Order SVU. 

Mariska posted pictures of her with Ted by way of the years and penned a heartfelt publish in regards to the cinematic legend. 

“I’ve encountered few inventive flames which have burned as brightly and for as long as Ted Kotcheff’s,” she wrote. “He was a fierce, daring, lion of a person, uncommonly articulate, with a wealth of expertise and a portfolio of cinematic data few can declare.”

Mariska known as him her “trainer and pal,” and stated he had “made my success a precedence in his life.”

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She concluded her message by saying: “I’ll miss you immensely. Goodbye for now. Huge kiss darling.”

Her followers known as her tribute “stunning,” and stated: “Could his reminiscence at all times shine.”

Ted died on April 10 on the age of 94. 

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He labored for 13 seasons as an govt producer on the Dick Wolf collection however was additionally well-known for the likes of Weekend at Bernies, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Enjoyable With Dick and Jane, and North Dallas Forty. 

Ted solid Christopher Meloni and Mariska Hargitay as detectives Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson on Legislation & Order SVU.

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In accordance with The Hollywood Reporter, his assistant as soon as informed him he had auditioned greater than 27,000 actors for SVU.

“I’ve used nearly each actor in New York,” Ted stated on the time. 

When he bid farewell to the present in 2012 after greater than 280 episodes, he admitted: “It was one of many richest — and positively the longest contiguous — experiences of my profession.”