Regulation & Order: SVU will see some noticeable modifications after season 26, as two actors are leaving the present.

Octavio Pisano and Juliana Martinez is not going to be returning as sequence regulars ought to the NBC present be picked up for a twenty seventh season. Whereas it has not been renewed but, it’s anticipated to be quickly.

Octavio, 38, has been on the long-running present since season 23, portraying former undercover detective Joe Velasco.

Juliana, 34, is the latest face on the present, becoming a member of the Particular Victims Unit as Detective Kate Silva, who was a murder detective within the Brooklyn Murder Unit earlier than changing into a member of Captain Olivia Benson’s squad. 

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The present season will air its last episode on Might 15, and whereas there isn’t a information but a couple of renewal, it was introduced in April that former sequence author and co-executive producer, Michele Fazekas, will turn into the primary feminine showrunner within the present’s historical past.

Earlier than she joined the present in October 2024, Juliana shared her pleasure about working together with her new co-stars.

“I’ve a journal that I am accumulating of Ice-T quotes, simply that I write in day-after-day. In the event you see him on Instagram, he is dropping gems, however it’s 10 instances that on set,” she advised Folks.

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“He’s undoubtedly Yoda for me,” she added. “Octavio is implausible. It is very nice additionally simply having one other fellow Latino on the group, and he is been extremely welcoming and supportive.

“Kevin [Kane], I’ve additionally been a fan of, we have now lots of mutual pals,” she continued. “Peter Scanavino makes me chortle. He can quote something in a film ever, and he is extremely humorous. It is an absolute deal with.”

Season 26 concluded filming in April, and Mariska Hargitay, who has performed Olivia Benson for the reason that starting, shared an emotional goodbye in additional methods than one.

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

She wrote: “And that’s a wrap on season 26! Thanks group completely happy hiatus,” and her followers and well-known pals commented that they’re going to miss seeing her on TV however to get pleasure from her break. 

Nevertheless, Mariska’s subsequent social media put up sparked a special response as she paid tribute to legendary TV and movie director and producer Ted Kotcheff whose large physique of labor included many episodes of Regulation & Order SVU. 

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“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 information few can declare.”

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

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 mentioned: “Might his reminiscence all the time shine.”

Tim died on April 10 on the age of 94.