Hargitay also won a Gracie Allen Award for Outstanding Female Lead in a Drama Series in 2009. Star Mariska Hargitay has been nominated for an Emmy Award many times, eventually winning it in 2006 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, and a Golden Globe in the category for Best Actress in a Television Drama Series, for her portrayal of Detective Olivia Benson in 2005. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit has won and been nominated for numerous awards for the series' actors, writers, and producers.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit centers on the detectives of the Special Victims Unit in the fictional 16th Precinct of the New York City Police Department.
The series premiered on NBC on Septemas the first spin-off of crime drama, Law & Order. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is an American police procedural, legal, crime drama television series created and produced by Dick Wolf.