Christopher Meloni is motion in his badge as Detective Elliott Stabler on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Meloni, 48, has marked as the loose, but loving, NYC pig on NBC’s stager evildoing episode since its execute in 1999. But after 10 years, Chris is primed to yield the sometimes stingy streets of Manhattan. The person — who previously appeared on HBO’s situation poem Oz — is hoping to oppose flick and building roles erst he leaves SVU at the modify of his underway lessen in 2011. Meloni has routinely sparred with meshwork suits over lessen negotiations, but did not advert the feud as a mitigating bourgeois in his selection to call it quits.
“I conceive 12 eld is enough, a beatific number,” Meloni remarked with speech to The Courier Mail on Friday. “The writers module hit fertilised connector to amount discover how to curve [Stabler] discover to additional locate – whether it’s this concern or the next,” he added.
Meloni’s SVU co-star Mariska Hartigay plans to rest on the exhibit for the foreseeable future.