Law and Order: Special Victims Unit fans will see a lot more of Detective Jake Griffin moving forward in Season 27.
Corey Cott, who joined the hit NBC police procedural early this season, has been promoted to a series regular. He debuted in Episode 2 titled “A Waiver of Consent” as Detective Griffin, who has friends in pretty high places, which put Benson (Mariska Hargitay) on high alert as she met her new detective for the first time. Before the current season, he made a one-off appearance in Season 18 and in Season 22 of the mothership series Law & Order.
New episodes of SVU air on Thursday night on NBC.
Starring Hargitay and her second-in-command, Ice-T as Sgt. Odafin “Fin” Tutuola, the procedural chronicles the lives of the Special Victims Unit of the New York City Police Department, an elite squad of detectives who investigate crimes of sexual assault, child abuse, and domestic violence. Kelli Giddish, Peter Scanavino, Kevin Kane, and Aimé Donna Kelly also star.
Before joining Law and Order: SVU, Cott made his Broadway debut as Jack Kelly in Disney’s Newsies, and has since starred in Bandstand, Gigi, and The Heart of Rock and Roll. On screen, he co-starred in the Fox series Filthy Rich and in the Hallmark movies The Snow Must Go On, Christmas on Cherry Lane 2, Making Waves, and Butlers in Love.
Additional TV appearances include: CBS’s’ The Equalizer, NBC’s Chicago Med, Evil from CBS/Paramount+, The Good Fight from CBS All Access/Paramount+, Prime Video’s Z: The Beginning of Everything, and the BBC miniseries My Mother and Other Strangers.
Cott played Tony in Francesca Zambello’s productions of “West Side Story” at Chicago’s Lyric Theater and with the National Symphony Orchestra at The Kennedy Center. He made his Carnegie Hall debut singing with Steven Reineke and the New York Pops, and sang with Rob Fisher and the San Diego Symphony. He is represented by Gersh and Soffer Entertainment.
