I think that's great that they finally announced who would replace Mariska during her maternity leave! Thank you for posting this article
Trublu Here is another article confirming the choice of Guest Star
news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20060201/en_tv_eo/18271Mariska's "SVU" Maternity Shakeup
Thursday February 2 2:59 PM ET
By Gina Serpe
Mariska Hargitay's pregnant pause is Connie Nielsen's gain.
The former Gladiator babe is set to step in for Hargitay on Law &
Order: SVU when the latter goes on maternity in the coming months.
Law & Order mastermind "thingy" Wolf told the New York Post that
Nielsen, 40, will play a warrant detective who joins the Special
Victims Unit when Hargitay's Detective Olivia Benson is sent off
on "specific assignment."
"When we realized we weren't going to be able to get through the
season without explaining [Hargitay's pregnancy] in some way, the
best decision was to have her dispelled, and Connie's name surfaced
internally," Wolf told the Post.
Nielsen will star in six episodes of the crime drama, the highest
rated of the Law & Order, franchise, leading up to the season
finale.
Hargitay, 41, is expecting her first child with actor husband Peter
Hermann this spring, though the exact due date is unknown. The
couple met in 2002 on the set of the prime-time procedural when
Hermann, 38, joined the show as recurring attorney Trevor Langen.
The camera-ready couple tied the knot in August 2004.
Nielsen's temp gig isn't the first time a ringer has been brought
into a Law & Order series for an on-hiatus regular.
Last year, Sopranos mobster Michael Imperioli took over for Jesse L.
Martin in the final episodes of the mothership's 15th season. Martin
briefly bowed out of his detective duties for the big-screen
adaptation of Rent, in which he played Tom Collins, the same
character he originated on Broadway in the early '90s.
Similarly, Chris Noth, who made his name as a detective on the
original series, was hired last year for Law & Order: Criminal
Intent to tag-team with star Vincent D'Onofrio, after the latter
battled exhaustion.
The rest of the SVU gang follows in Hargitay's break-taking shoes in
April, when the show goes on summer hiatus. The entire crew,
including the future mama, resumes filming in July.
And for those who wonder here is Connie Nielsen :mrgreen:
www.imdb.com/name/nm0001567/