We’ve Actually Seen Officer Nick Riley Actor Shawn Hatosy In Law & Order Before – Looper

In his most recent appearance on the “Heroes” episode of “Law & Order,” Shawn Hatosy’s Officer Riley plays a central part after a mass-casualty nightclub shooting turns out to be a violent ruse to cover up a targeted killing. But as noted above, the franchise frequently recycles actors across the entire “Law & Order” episodic empire, and fans could certainly have seen Hatosy in a number of other “Law & Order” shows.

For instance, Hatosy played Chester Manning, a suspected murderer and the boyfriend of Ellen Pompeo’s character, in the 1996 Season 6 “Law & Order” episode titled “Savior.” He showed up on a “Law & Order” spin-off in 2009 as Larry Clay, a shifty business partner who turns out to be a killer in the “Salome in Manhattan” episode of “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.”

In 2011, the actor was cast once more as a murderer, playing mentally ill serial killer Larry Sheppard in “Law & Order: Los Angeles.” And one year later he returned to the Dick Wolf-verse on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” portraying Kevin Fahey, a sketchy delivery van driver who turns out NOT to be a killer in the “Valentine’s Day” installment of that series.

When interviewed by Wolf Films about his work on the latter episode, Hatosy noted that playing Fahey helped him stretch as an actor, saying it “gave me an opportunity to play a little bit of a different kind of character and I was happy to do it.”