Christopher Meloni is an American actor who has mainly acted in TV series. He rose to fame with television roles as NYPD Detective, Elliot Stabler on ‘Law & Order: Special Victims Unit’ and as vampire Roman on ‘True Blood’.
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Before venturing into acting, Meloni had done odds jobs and worked as a bouncer, construction worker, bartender, personal trainer. He started his acting career with commercials and was later noticed in the 1966 thriller film ‘Bound’. Following this, he was seen in ‘Runaway Bride’ (1999), ‘Nights in Rodanthe’ (2008), ‘Brief Interviews with Hideous Men’ (2009), ‘Carriers’ (2009), ‘42’ (2013), and ‘I am Wrath’ (2016). He has also acted in number of TV series which includes ‘The Fanelli Boys’ (1990-91), ‘The Boys’ (1993), ‘Leaving L.A.’ (1997), ‘Oz’ (1998-2003), ‘Law & Order’ (2000), ‘True Blood’ (2012), and ‘Veep’ (2014).
Meloni’s career had equal share of success and failure. His best performance is in the NBC police drama ‘Law & Order: Special Victims Unit’ as NYPD Detective Elliot Stabler. Some of his movies too were highly appreciated and were huge box office hits such as ‘Runaway Bride’ (1999), ‘Carriers’ (2009) and ‘Green Lantern: First Flight’ (2010).Â