Law & Order: SVU’s Kelli Giddish Doesn’t Rule Out A Future Return To The Show – Looper

While Kelli Giddish spent the majority of her time on “Law & Order: SVU,” she also appeared in other series in the franchise. Her time working alongside Olivia Benson spanned 253 episodes beginning in 2011. She appeared on the series three years earlier in a one-off episode before landing her recurring role. She also spent two episodes on “Law & Order: Organized Crime” and a single appearance on the original series, “Law & Order.” Her time wasn’t limited to New York, as she crossed over to Dick Wolf’s “Chicago” franchise, appearing in two episodes of “Chicago P.D.” and one episode of “Chicago Fire.”

Following her exit from “SVU,” Giddish sat down with Variety to discuss whether the door was shut on a return. “The door is un-shut. The world that Dick Wolf has created with all these shows now — I mean, the crossovers that happen, the people that come back. Chris Meloni was gone for 12 years, and then his character came back. S. Epatha is on ‘Chicago Med.’ These characters are so beloved and so well-defined because you get to see them day in and day out. We’re in people’s living rooms. So the audience loves these characters; they know us. Dick Wolf has got such a fertile universe that’s going on that people can pop up in different places. That’s really a cool thing that he’s created.”

Part of her exit centered around her character’s surprise wedding to Rollins’ love interest, Detective Sonny Carisi (Peter Scanavino). Rollins isn’t going too far away, as she took a teaching position in New York, so the possibility of her returning isn’t that far-fetched.