‘Law & Order: SVU’: Kelli Giddish Returning as Rollins Full-Time in Season 27
Welcome back, Sergeant Amanda Rollins!
Kelli Giddish is going to once again be a series regular on Law & Order: SVU, for Season 27, airing in the fall on NBC, TV Insider has confirmed. (Deadline first reported it.) This news comes after Giddish has been recurring throughout Season 26.
Giddish joined SVU in the Season 13 premiere and exited as a series regular during Season 24. Rollins and Carisi (Peter Scanavino) got married, then she left the NYPD and began teaching, where it was clear to everyone that she was very, very bored. She consulted on cases, returning for episodes that season as well as the following. But it was in Season 26 that she returned in a more heavily recurring role, with a new job: working in Intelligence and now a sergeant (she left SVU as a detective).
“Rollins loves her new job. She says it’s like getting to eavesdrop on the whole world. And I feel like she’s really happy, and it’s fun to play that version of Rollins,” Giddish told TV Insider in September 2024 ahead of her first Season 26 episode in October.
But this return full-time has us wondering if she’ll continue to work with Intelligence or if she’ll be back at SVU, working alongside Captain Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay), Sergeant Odafin “Fin” Tutuola (Ice-T), and Detective Terry Bruno (Kevin Kane).
Giddish’s full-time return isn’t the only shake-up for SVU for its 27th season, which will continue to air Thursdays at 9/8c this fall, after Law & Order and before The Hunting Party, on a new night. (An exact premiere date has yet to be announced.) Octavio Pisano and Juliana Aidan Martinez, who plays Detectives Joe Velasco and Kate Silva, will be exiting as series regulars in the Thursday, May 15, Season 26 finale. Michele Fazekas is also taking over as showrunner from David Graziano.
What are you hoping to see from Kelli Giddish’s Amanda Rollins now that she’s back as a series regular? Let us know in the comments section below.
Law & Order: SVU, Season 26 Finale, Thursday, May 15, 9/8c, NBC
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I love having Amanda in the last few seasons. Kelli Giddish deserves this role, she has done a great job. I especially enjoy Amanda and Carisi together and happy.
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I am super glad she’s coming back, although I had a feeling when I read that they were going to loose both detectives, that she was coming back. I will miss Octavio. I thought he was quite good.
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I’m beyond ecstatic! This occasional show here and there just didn’t make the cut. The chemistry on the show has just not been the same. I have no idea why she was removed in the first place, that was a disaster in the making. Welcome back, Kelli!
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Whatever the writer decides is fine with me as long as the marriage with ]Carisi is not touched 🙂
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Im elated that Rollins is coming back.
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I think it’s great she is coming back.
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REALLY liked Octavio. Will miss him.
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Glad she is back. Love her part in the show.
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I'm glad she's coming back
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Best news!! It just wasn't the same without her. I hope she leaves the Intelligence Unit and goes back to SVU. She should've never left!!!
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Yay!
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bullshit stupid to write her out.
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Made my day when I heard this. It hasn’t been the same since she left. Hope she continues to work with Olivia. They made a good pair. Just happy to have her back no matter how. She has been missed.
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YAY! I quit watching when they got rid of her. Now that she will be back full time I will watch again!
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Who cares- other than her fans! They got what they asked for. I stopped watching 2 seasons ago! Sorry Octavio you were collateral damage!
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I am so happy that Kelli Giddish is coming back. I loved her and Mariska Hargitay together.
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Can’t stand her and my favorite show is gone!! Sick of the Carusi/Rollins soap!!
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Never should have left. She bet on the Celtics. Smart lady.
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great, the worst case of duck lips is back full time. sorry but it's hard to look at her. not as bad as nicole kidman but still bad facial work
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