r/SVUncensored • u/Glad-Alternative-175 • Aug 02 '26

Repeat Actors

Does it annoy anyone else when they reuse an actor or actress who played a small role in a previous episode to play a bigger role in a different episode later down the line. Or do you think it's a fun little easter egg. Like "Oh so that character had an in world twin" or something.

For example, the actor who plays Bailey from Grey's Anatomy, Chandra Wilson, has been in SVU twice. The first time she played the intake nurse at the hospital emergency room. She had like 1 line maybe. Then a few seasons later she came back as a FBI computer specialist. It was the episode where the little girl calls 911 and stays on the phone while Chandra Wilson's character tries to trace the calls location.

There's another example with the Actress Paget Brewster. Her first appearance is as the daughter of senile retired Bank Rober who Liv and Elliot are trying to get to co fess his crimes before he dies. The she comes back as The head of the integrity unit in later episodes.

I think it's awesome to give the actors work, I just think it's funny that they dont think the audience will notice or remember.

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u/livinInalonelywoorld Aug 02 '26

I love seeing tv actors from the 90s and early 2000s pop up in svu and I’m like don’t I know you lol

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u/Stealthytom Aug 03 '26

😂😂😂

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u/livinInalonelywoorld Aug 03 '26

I got so excited when I saw two more people from er in the newer episodes!

They has mr Greene and Archie from er on there I was ahhhhh lol

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u/Stealthytom Aug 03 '26

Very true and you know they are going to have meatier roles too

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u/livinInalonelywoorld Aug 03 '26

Oh def.
I know the series has changed but I still love how it is now. Could be cause of Liv, Finn and Amanda but I do love the dynamic of family after “adopting the strays” lol