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Christopher Peter Meloni (born April 2, 1961) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as NYPD Detective Elliot Stabler on the NBC police drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit until 2013, and later reprising the role (as a series regular) on the 2021 spinoff series, Law & Order: Organized Crime. Meloni was nominated for the 2006 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Elliot Stabler. He played criminal Jimmy Liery in eight episodes of NYPD Blue during 1996-1997. He also played inmate Chris Keller on the HBO prison drama Oz. In June 2012, he returned to HBO as the vampire Roman on the main cast of True Blood for the series' fifth season. Meloni also starred in and executive-produced the Syfy series Happy! from 2017 to 2019. He then appeared on the third season of The Handmaid's Tale as Commander Winslow in 2019. He has appeared in a number of films to include Wet Hot American Summer, 12 Monkeys, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Runaway Bride, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Man of Steel, and 42.
Christopher Meloni
Sean Cosgrove
for Sean Cosgrove in F. Gary Gray's Kane & Lynch
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Convicted traitor and death row inmate Marcus Kane is being transported to San Quentin when his prison bus is violently ambushed by a black armored truck. He wakes up in a mysterious interrogation room face-to-face with his former best friend and betrayer, Sean Cosgrove, who Kane believed was dead. Cosgrove reveals that he now leads a covert mercenary team called "The Seven" and has kidnapped Kane's wife Megan and teenage daughter Eliza, locking them in an air-tight cell with only 96 hours of oxygen. To save them, Kane must retrieve a stolen microchip known as "The Skeleton Key"—a device containing nuclear launch codes—and deliver it to Cosgrove. To do so, he is forced to partner with Lester Lynch, a schizophrenic former government asset and accused murderer who suffers from violent psychotic episodes and hears voices commanding him to kill. Kane and Lynch embark on a brutal, globe-spanning mission from Tokyo's Yakuza underworld to the frozen coast of Alaska, forming a fragile and reluctant alliance. In Tokyo, with help from a grizzled CIA contact named Higgins, they infiltrate the fortress-like tower of Japanese kingpin Retomoto, retrieve the microchip, and escape in a helicopter as the building explodes behind them. But when Kane delivers the chip to Cosgrove, the villain double-crosses him, murders Megan mid-phone call, and takes Lynch hostage. Kane survives a point-blank shooting, rescues Eliza, and teams up with an eccentric, foul-mouthed CIA agent named Carmikael—whose kneecap Kane once shot out—to track Cosgrove to an Alaskan cargo dock. In a bloody, explosive showdown on a burning barge and collapsing ice, Kane and Lynch finally kill Cosgrove and destroy the microchip. Lynch disappears into the wilderness, finally at peace with his demons, while Kane surrenders to the FBI, now reconciled with his daughter Eliza, who visits him in prison and begins to call him "Dad."
