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Law & Orderhas been on television since the 1990s and Dick Wolf created multiple shows around the universe in the late 90s and early 2000s. Some of the famous actors of today took their initial acting lessons from this universe. Among them was actress Betty Gilpin, who appeared in multiple roles across theLaw & Orderuniverse.
Gilpin appeared in the original series and its spin-offs,Law & Order: SVUandLaw & Order: Criminal Intent. During her appearance onCriminal Intent, she shared her experience of being almost forgotten in a body bag. Gilpin later met Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch on the showNurse Jackie, who cast her in their showsGlowandRoar.
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During an appearance onThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Betty Gilpin revealed that her early acting days were in theater andLaw & Order. She appeared that she had appeared on the“mothership”show and its spin-offs during the 2000s. WhenJimmy Fallonasked whether she appeared as a dead body in any of her appearances, Gilpin had quite the tale to tell.
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Gilpin’s role as a dead body took place during the eighth episode of season six ofLaw & Order: Criminal Intent. The Dick Wolf-created show starredVincent D’Onofrioand Kathryn Erbe as the detectives of NYPD’s major case squad. Gilpin played Amanda Dockerty, sharing that she played the daughter of Fran Drescher’s character Elaine Dockerty.
Gilpin recalled how she had to film the scene where she was found naked in an oil drum.D’Onofrio’s Detective Robert Gorenfinds her body in the episode. Gilpin told Fallon that they filmed the scene of them zipping her up in a body bag in a different location on a remote beach. She remembered D’Onofrio having a“grumbly scene”over her body.
However, when the scene was done, the crew almost forgot Gilpin in the body bag. Gilpin shared that the crew packed up and began walking away when one of the PAs panickingly realized that they left an actor in the body bag. Gilpin told the story onThe Tonight Show:
And then they called cut, they were like, ‘That’s lunch, guys! Great day!’ And I hear footsteps on gravel, getting farther and farther away, van doors closing. And then ten seconds goes by. I hear one far-away P.A. being like ‘Oh my God,’ and footsteps coming towards me, unzips, sunlight in my face.
When Fallon imitated her crying out for help, Gilpin shared that she stayed still inside the bag until the PA found her. She shared,“No, I didn’t want to be high-maintenance. I wanted to work again, the same season.”She did, in fact, work again on the show as an“alive person”, joking to Fallon,“They were like, ‘No one cares. No one remembers you.'”
Betty Gilpin’s Other Appearances OnLaw & Order
According toLaw & Order fandom, Gilpin has appeared in a total of four episodes in the franchise. She appeared in one episode each ofLaw & OrderandLaw & Order: SVUand in two episodes ofCriminal Intent. She joked with Fallon:
So I did an order of SVU. I was a p*dophile with a vocal fry. And I was a lesbian with acne on the mothership, just the normal Law & Order. I was a dead body on Criminal Intent. And then, within the same year, I was an alive person.
Gilpin first made an appearance on theCriminal IntentepisodeThe War at Homein 2006. Contrary to what she said, she made her nextCriminal Intentappearance a couple of years later in the season eight episodePlaying Dead. The same year she played Paige Regan in theLaw & OrderepisodeFor the Defense.
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As for the“pdophile”role she mentioned, Gilpin appeared as a teacher, Natalie Relais, who was having sx with one of her students in theSVUepisode,Learning Curve.
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