Christopher Meloni
Actor
Biography
Christopher Peter Meloni (born April 2, 1961) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as NYPD Detective Elliot Stabler on the NBC police drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit until 2013, and later reprising the role (as a series regular) on the 2021 spinoff series, Law & Order: Organized Crime. Meloni was nominated for the 2006 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Elliot Stabler.
He played criminal Jimmy Liery in eight episodes of NYPD Blue during 1996-1997. He also played inmate Chris Keller on the HBO prison drama Oz. In June 2012, he returned to HBO as the vampire Roman on the main cast of True Blood for the series' fifth season. Meloni also starred in and executive-produced the Syfy series Happy! from 2017 to 2019. He then appeared on the third season of The Handmaid's Tale as Commander Winslow in 2019.
He has appeared in a number of films to include Wet Hot American Summer, 12 Monkeys, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Runaway Bride, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Man of Steel, and 42.
As Director
Filmography
Man of Steel
as Colonel Nathan Hardy 2013
Twelve Monkeys
as Lt. Halperin 1995
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
as Clerk at Flamingo Hotel 1998
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
as Mort 2014
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
as Freakshow 2004
Runaway Bride
as Coach Bob Kelly 1999
42
as Leo Durocher 2013
Junior
as Mr. Lanzarotta 1994
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
as Grand Wizard 2008
IF
as Cosmo (voice) 2024
Carriers
as Frank Holloway 2009
Bound
as Johnnie Marzzone 1996
Wet Hot American Summer
as Gene 2001
Snatched
as Roger Simmons 2017
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
as Pascal MacCorkill 2015
White Bird in a Blizzard
as Brock Connor 2014
I Am Wrath
as Dennis 2016