Law & Order adds Maura Tierney as series regular in wake of Camryn Manheim's exit

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Maura Tierney is coming back to network television — on one of its longest-running juggernauts, Law & Order. The veteran actress will join season 24 of the legal procedural as a series regular in the fall, Entertainment Weekly has confirmed.

According to TV Line, which first reported the news, Tierney will play a new lieutenant down at the precinct.

Tierney is a longtime television presence, having starred on series such as ER, American Rust, The Affair, and NewsRadio. Though she spent a decade on NBC with ER, this will mark her first time back on network TV since her seven-episode run on CBS' The Good Wife ended in 2013.

Tierney is joining Law & Order in the wake of Camryn Manheim's exit from the Dick Wolf series. Manheim portrayed Lt. Kate Dixon, the commanding officer of the 27th Precinct. She came aboard L&O in 2022, when the series returned to air after being canceled in 2010. Her last appearance was in the season 23 finale.

Manheim wasn't the only series regular to exit the flagship drama this past season: Sam Waterston, who joined Law & Order in its fifth season in 1994, made his final appearance back in February after logging 400 episodes. Following the exit of Waterston's Jack McCoy, Scandal star Tony Goldwyn stepped in as a new district attorney, Nicholas Baxter.

The Law & Order family also currently includes Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Law & Order: Organized Crime.