Donna Lynne Champlin, Guest Star Extraordinaire: “I’m the Go-To Dick Wolf Middle-Aged Traumatized Woman”

Donna Lynne Champlin has come a long way from her Dick Wolf debut, a guest-starring gig in Law & Order from about 20 years ago. Back then, Champlin threw a party to celebrate her episode — a rite of passage for working New York actors — only for it to slowly dawn on her that she had been cut out from it entirely. “I’m watching it and I’m thinking like 10 minutes in, ‘Huh, in that scene — I feel like I was in that? Maybe they moved it around or whatever,’” she recalls over Zoom with a laugh. “My name was there at the beginning, but no, I got cut. And look, God bless — I still get residuals from that. I mean, it’s two cents, but I still get residuals!”

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