Ann-Margret plays the bitterest ex-girlfriend - a boozy former D-list actress who kept the menstrual blood stained sheets from the time she had period sex with her former lover.
An investigative journalist is found raped and dead, which leads to another murder from several decades ago, which leads to a philandering man with a series of bitter ex-girlfriends who thought he was going to leave his wife for them. Carol BurnettĮpisode: Season 11, Episode 18: "Bedtime" Emmy: Won, 2010Ĭharacter: Ann-Margret's character is at least two-steps removed from the central rape/murder. Her husband kills her for trying to leave him, and then, out of nowhere, it turns out that Malcolm killed her abusive husband and then escaped from custody decades earlier. When it turns out the victim was raped by her abusive husband, Malcolm and Detective Benson try to save her. Brenda BlethynĮpisode: Season 10, Episode 8: "Persona" Emmy: Nominated, 2009Ĭharacter: Linnie Malcolm (Blethyn) is the downstairs neighbor of a woman who was raped. RELATED: 'The Maze Runner' Checks All the Right Boxes But Doesn't Stand Out of the Young-Adult Pack 12. Nixon is as good as the material allows her to be. The Emmy voters certainly thought so. Both of the girls were raped and abused by their father, while their mother did nothing, and so both become suspects when the parents are found murdered in their beds. They then realize that there is no abuse, and the daughter is actually Janice's niece (who was in jail for buying heroin when she was 8 months pregnant). The personality who thinks she's a psychiatrist reports Janice to SVU for abusing her daughter. Nixon plays Janice, along with her four other multiple personalities. No one forced her to take this role - or maybe they did, we don't know - but it's a mess. Points were taken off for episodes that were really bad, and for Emmy nominations that were given purely because a famous film actor deigned to appear on television.Įpisode: Season 9, Episode 1: "Alternate" Emmy: Won, 2008Ĭharacter: Poor Cynthia Nixon.
All of the women (and one man, Robin Williams) on this list are excellent actors, so the ranking is based on the quality of the character, how memorable the actor made the role and how integral the character was to the plot of the episode.
Since only a lunatic would try to rank all of the amazing SVU guest stars over the last 15 years, we settled on just the Emmy nominated ones. SVU literally does the Lord's work, which is probably why we give it so much leeway and why its guest stars have been nominated for so many Emmys.
Over the years the detectives have changed and the rape/rape-murder/child abuse/child-abuse-rape-murders have only gotten more bizarre.īut at the heart of this ridiculous show is an effort to bring awareness to awful crimes, to teach victims that it's never their fault, to give them an idea of what their options are.
In the criminal justice system, sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous, especially when Dick Wolf and the writers of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit get together. Today, we're looking at NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, which premiered Sept.
It's TV Anniversary Week at The Wire, and we're taking a special look at the inordinately prestigious crop of shows celebrating milestone anniversaries this fall.