Peter Scanavino

Peter Scanavino (born February 29, 1980) is an American actor. He stars as Detective Dominick Carisi Jr. in the long-running NBC crime/legal drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. 2Career Since 2005, Scanavino has had dozens of minor roles in films and on television, most notably Deception (2008), The Good Wife and The Blacklist. In 2005, Scanavino guest starred on the NBC crime drama series Law & Order: Criminal Intent in the fifth season episode "Diamond Dogs" as petty criminal Johnny Feist. In 2013, Scanavino guest starred on the long-running NBC crime-drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in the fourteenth season, 13th episode, "Monster's Legacy" as Johnny Dubcek. The same year, he starred in the independent romantic comedy ensemble Mutual Friends, directed by Matthew Watts. In 2014, Scanavino joined SVU in its sixteenth season, this time as Dominick Carisi Jr., a new SVU detective. Initially in a recurring capacity, Scanavino was promoted to the main cast in the fifth episode of the same season. According to SVU Executive Producer Warren Leight, "(Detective Carisi) [comes] in [to SVU] and shake things up...a guy who maybe needs a little bit of refining." Scanavino noted that Carisi "[is] a total outside