Is the same actress playing Jamie Ross on law and order?

We're living in an era of reboots and revivals. Some are warranted (And Just Like That...), others not so much (MADtv). Though we can go on and on about this topic until we're blue in the face, let's discuss the return of the original Law & Order. Created by TV god Dick Wolf, the series that opened the doors for the rest of the Law & Order universe back in 1990 has come back to grace our small screens after 12 years off the air. Having premiered on Feb. 24, 2022, Season 21 sees Rick Eid as its executive producer and showrunner.

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Along with newcomer characters Lieutenant Kate Dixon (Camryn Manheim), Detective Frank Cosgrove (Jeffrey Donovan), ADA Samantha Maroun (Odelya Halevi), and ADA Nolan Price (Hugh Dancy), a few OG characters are included in Law & Order's main cast. District Attorney Jack McCoy (Sam Waterston) and Detective Kevin Bernard (Anthony Anderson) return to investigate crime in New York City's underbelly.

While the other characters were confirmed to be in the revival, it was a familiar surprise to see former Defense Attorney-turned-Assistant District Attorney Jamie Ross in the premiere episode. So, who plays the fierce, no-nonsense attorney?

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Is the same actress playing Jamie Ross on law and order?

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Which actress plays Jamie Ross in 'Law & Order'?

Not only did actress Carey Lowell play Jamie Ross in the original Law & Order series from 1996 to 1998 — first appearing in the episode titled "Causa Mortis" — but she also portrayed the tough cookie character in the spinoff series Law & Order: Trial By Jury. Sadly, it was a one-season flop. Actresses Jill Hennessy (Crossing Jordan), Angie Harmon (Rizzoli and Isles), and Elizabeth Röhm (American Hustle) have all played the ADA in past seasons of Law & Order.

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Carey starred in a whopping 52 episodes of Law & Order. Of her arrival on the show in 1996, executive producer Dick Wolf said, "She brings adult beauty, intelligence, and sex appeal.” Let's just focus on her brains, Dick!

At the time, Sam Waterston said that Carey Lowell's Jamie Ross "hasn’t caused so much as a hiccup in the rhythm of the show."

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Where else have we seen Carey Lowell?

Though the Law & Order universe adores Carey Lowell, her career also spans several decades in film. In fact, Carey's a Bond girl! In 1989's Licence to Kill — which saw Timothy Dalton as Special Agent 007 — Carey portrayed former U.S. army pilot and CIA informer Pam Bouvier. Not to be crass, but she was a bonafide sexpot.

Among the many roles she nabbed from the mid-'80s into the 2000s, Carey was featured in 1993's beloved romcom Sleepless in Seattle, 1997's comedy Fierce Creatures, and starred as Dottie Hinson in the short-lived 1993 sitcom A League of Their Own.

As for her personal life, Carey has been married and divorced three times. Her most public relationship was with Richard Gere, to whom she was married from 2002 to 2013. She has two children, one with Gere and another from her previous marriage to Griffin Dunne.

Daughter Hannah Dunne has followed in her mother's acting footsteps. She's best known for portraying Lizzie Campbell in Prime Video's Mozart in the Jungle.

Catch new episodes of Law & Order Season 21 when they air on Thursdays at 8 p.m. EST on NBC.

Jamie Ross
Law & Order character
Is the same actress playing Jamie Ross on law and order?
First appearance"Causa Mortis" (L&O)
"41 Shots" (TBJ)
Last appearance"The Right Thing" (L&O)
"Bang & Blame" (TBJ)
Portrayed byCarey Lowell
In-universe information
Seasons7, 8, 10, 11, 21 (L&O)

Jamie Ross is a fictional character on the TV drama Law & Order, created by Rene Balcer and portrayed by Carey Lowell from 1996 to 1998 and 2022. She also appears in the short-lived Law & Order spin-off Law & Order: Trial by Jury, by which time the character has become a judge. She appeared in 53 episodes (50 episodes of Law & Order, one episode of Homicide: Life on the Street, and two episodes of Law & Order: Trial by Jury)

As series regular[edit]

The character was introduced in 1996 as a former defense attorney who graduated from law school at Columbia University.[1] She enters the Manhattan District Attorney's office as an Assistant District Attorney, replacing Claire Kincaid (Jill Hennessy), who had been killed in a car accident in the previous episode.[2] She initially has a rocky relationship with her superior Jack McCoy (Sam Waterston) because his penchant for bending trial rules goes against her liberal idealism and sense of legal ethics. While the two never see perfectly eye-to-eye, they eventually grow to be close friends.

During the 1997–98 season, Ross's personal and professional life was thrown into disarray by a custody battle with her ex-husband, Neil Gorton (Keith Szarabajka), over their daughter Katie (Caralyn Gorel). For the next year, the brutal litigation against her ex-husband (who is also a lawyer, with whom she used to work) leaves her with increasingly less time to devote to her job. She leaves the DA's office in the 1998 episode "Monster", to remarry and find a job that gives her more time to be with her family.[3] She is replaced by Abbie Carmichael (Angie Harmon) in the following episode, "Cherished".[4]

Ross is initially a supporter of the death penalty,[5] but by the end of season 8 she has become an opponent.[6] She later explains this development: "When I worked at the DA's office, I saw the death penalty applied. ADAs are overworked. They're competitive. They often act out of their own prejudices or personal hurts. What they think the politics demands. They make mistakes. Errors of judgment. The death penalty is final. It eliminates any chance of correcting those mistakes."[7]

Guest appearances[edit]

Lowell returned to the character in the 1999 episode "Justice", in which Ross and McCoy share a courtroom as adversaries. Once again a defense attorney, she represents a client McCoy is prosecuting for murder. When McCoy discovers she had violated that defendant's confidence in a previous action, Ross recuses herself. She reports herself to the Disciplinary Committee of the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, which eventually exonerates her with help from McCoy's testimony on her behalf.[8]

Ross appears on the Homicide: Life of the Street episode "Baby It's You", where she assists in the prosecution of the primary suspect in the murder of a teen model.[9]

Lowell appears as Ross again, as a defense attorney, in the 2001 episode "School Daze", when she represents a student who had killed several classmates in a school shooting. At first, Ross has the upper hand, getting a handgun and other evidence dismissed due to a suppression ruling against detectives Lennie Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Ed Green (Jesse L. Martin), who use privileged medical information from a school psychiatrist to identify the suspect following an anonymous e-mail threatening to "come back and finish the job". However, when new evidence emerges and the judge decides the boy is competent to stand trial, the case is reinstated. After the boy's father (who believes his son would kill again if freed) testifies on the stand that his son had admitted the crime to him, the boy is convicted.[10]

In 2005, Ross is reintroduced in the spin-off series Law & Order: Trial by Jury as a trial judge. She appears in two episodes: "41 Shots", in which she is seen eating at a restaurant with two other judges while having a conversation,[11] and "Bang & Blame", in which she presides over the trial of a murderer who decides to represent himself pro se after killing a woman on video in the middle of a crowded bank lobby.[12]

When the original series returned for its twenty-first season in February 2022, Ross was revealed to have rejoined the District Attorney's Office. In the episode "The Right Thing", a singer named Henry King whom Ross helped prosecute for rape was released because she had gone back on a promise not to do so. When the singer is later murdered by one of his victims, Ross, who is initially considered a suspect by Detective Frank Cosgrove (Jeffrey Donovan) after she is seen on a surveillance video confronting King, is later discovered to have potentially assisted the victim in some manner in the commission of the said crime. She refuses to admit any role in the killing and when subpoenaed to testify, Ross asserts her Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination. After her testimony concludes, a stunned Jack McCoy can only watch in silence as she leaves. The defendant is eventually convicted as a silent Ross sits among the gallery while the court erupts in protest over the verdict.[13]

Behind the scenes[edit]

In a case of life imitating art, Lowell requested to leave the show in order to spend more time with her daughter, as she felt that the time she spent filming the drama was causing her to "miss her [daughter's] childhood".[14]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Causa Mortis". Law & Order. Season 7. Episode 1. September 18, 1996.
  2. ^ "Aftershock". Law & Order. Season 6. Episode 23. May 26, 1996.
  3. ^ "Monster". Law & Order. Season 8. Episode 24. May 20, 1998.
  4. ^ "Cherished". Law & Order. Season 9. Episode 1. September 23, 1998.
  5. ^ "Causa Mortis". Law & Order. Season 7. Episode 1. September 18, 1996. I don't mind breaking a sweat if at the end of the day we put Salva's lights out
  6. ^ "Bad Girl". Law & Order. Season 8. Episode 21. April 29, 1998. You're the one with the crisis of conscience. I'm against the death penalty
  7. ^ "Justice". Law & Order. Season 10. Episode 5. November 10, 1999.
  8. ^ "Justice". Law & Order. Season 10. Episode 5. November 10, 1999.
  9. ^ "Baby, It's You, Part 2". Homicide: Life on the Street. Season 6. Episode 5. November 14, 1997.
  10. ^ "School Daze". Law & Order. Season 11. Episode 22. May 16, 2001.
  11. ^ "41 Shots". Law & Order: Trial By Jury. Season 1. Episode 2. May 16, 2001.
  12. ^ "Bang & Blame". Law & Order: Trial By Jury. Season 1. Episode 7. April 8, 2005.
  13. ^ "The Right Thing". Law & Order. Season 21. Episode 1. February 24, 2022.
  14. ^ "Law & Order: 20 Years of Arresting Drama". TV Guide Special Collector's Issue.

Who played Jamie Ross on new law and order?

Carey LowellJamie Ross / Played bynull

What happened to Jamie on law and order?

She had a relatively short tenure, though, lasting just two seasons before Lowell opted to exit the show to spend more time with her daughter. The series handled her departure in the same way, having Ross quit the Manhattan District Attorney's office to get remarried and focus on her own family.

Who played Jamie on SVU?

Carey Lowell is an actress who played Assistant District Attorney Jamie Ross in seasons seven and eight of Law & Order. She also made guest appearances in the episodes "Justice" and "School Daze" as a defense attorney, and returned as an ADA in the episode "The Right Thing".

How old is Jamie law and order?

Not much is known about Jamie's past. She is 16 years-old, and is described as an intelligent, pretty, energetic, and seemingly popular student.