Peter Scanavino

Peter Scanavino is an American actor who plays Dominick Carisi Jr., a detective who becomes an assistant district attorney, on the long-running NBC crime and legal drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. He grew up in Evergreen, Colorado, and after an unsuccessful acting audition at Boston University, he moved to New York City and trained at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. Starting in 2005, he took dozens of minor roles in theater, film, and television, including Deception (2008), The Good Wife, and The Blacklist. He guest-starred on Law & Order: Criminal Intent in 2005 and on Law & Order in 2009. In 2013 he starred in the independent romantic comedy Mutual Friends and appeared on Special Victims Unit. He joined that series in 2014 as Carisi, first in a recurring capacity and then as a main cast member.