Peter Scanavino (born February 29, 1980) is an American actor.
Since 2005, Scanavino has had dozens of minor roles in films and on television, most notably Deception (2008), The Good Wife, and The Blacklist.
In 2005, Scanavino guest-starred on the NBC crime-drama series Law & Order: Criminal Intent in the fifth-season episode “Diamond Dogs” as petty criminal Johnny Feist. He was also a guest on Law & Order as a suspect who was a graphic designer in the 2009 episode “Just A Girl in the World”.
In 2013, Scanavino guest-starred on the long-running NBC crime-drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in Season 14, Episode 13, “Monster’s Legacy”, as Johnny Dubcek. The same year, he starred in the independent romantic-comedy film Mutual Friends, directed by Matthew Watts.
In 2014, Scanavino joined SVU in its sixteenth season, this time as Dominick Carisi Jr., nicknamed Sonny, a new SVU detective. Initially in a recurring capacity, Scanavino was promoted to the main cast in the fifth episode of the same season. According to SVU Executive Producer Warren Leight, Carisi “comes in and shakes things up” and is “a guy who maybe needs a little bit of refining.” Scanavino noted that Carisi is “a total outsider. He’s brusque and he doesn’t really get the nuances and he’s not very experienced so he puts his foot in his mouth a lot of times. But he’s learning. He’s picking it up. I think he’s a good detective, but he’s got a lot to learn on how to approach cases.”
Scanavino starred in an episode of Netflix’s 2020 anthology series Social Distance as the father of his real-life son Leo Bai-Scanavino.
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as Carter
as Leon
as Self
as Chef
as Ira
as Jack
as Czapinczyk
as Nate
as Dominick 'Sonny' Carisi Jr.
242 episodes
as Johnny Dubcek
1 episodes
as Jim Anderson
1 episodes
as Dominick 'Sonny' Carisi Jr.
1 episodes
as Craig
1 episodes
as Dominick Carisi Jr.
1 episodes
as Grant Duverney
1 episodes
as Johnny Feist
1 episodes
as Adams
1 episodes
as Breece Connors
1 episodes
as Stephen
2 episodes
as ADA Dominick 'Sonny' Carisi Jr.
4 episodes
as Alex Daniels
1 episodes
as Skinny
1 episodes
as Mr. Blackman
1 episodes
as Robert Hassel
1 episodes
as Greg
1 episodes
1 episodes
as Gunther Halstead
1 episodes
