who plays cassidy on law and order svu
Dean Winters
title: Brian Cassidy text: Brian Cassidy Detective Brian Cassidy is a fictional character played by Dean Winters in the American crime drama television series "" on NBC. A recurring cast member during the first season, Cassidy is a young and inexperienced detective with the New York Police Department's Special Victims Unit, and the original partner of John Munch (Richard Belzer). The stress of the Special Victims Unit is too much for Cassidy, and he transfers to the narcotics unit in the middle of the season. Cassidy later returns in the finale working undercover for a pimp the SVU detectives are investigating. Winters had previously title: Brian Cassidy text: his role." Brian Cassidy Detective Brian Cassidy is a fictional character played by Dean Winters in the American crime drama television series "" on NBC. A recurring cast member during the first season, Cassidy is a young and inexperienced detective with the New York Police Department's Special Victims Unit, and the original partner of John Munch (Richard Belzer). The stress of the Special Victims Unit is too much for Cassidy, and he transfers to the narcotics unit in the middle of the season. Cassidy later returns in the finale working undercover for a pimp the SVU detectives are investigating. Winters title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 14) text: came back in "Rhodium Nights" to portray , returned for the season premiere episodes, along with guest stars Peter Jacobson (Bart Ganzel), Pippa Black (Carrissa Gibson), Ron Rifkin (Defense Attorney Marvin Exley), Brooke Smith (Delia Wilson), and Laura Benanti as . On January 4, 2013, Warren Leight tweeted the Cassidy character (Dean Winters) may appear again in the spring. Paget Brewster guest starred as Paula Foster, the Bureau Chief ADA of the Public Integrity Unit in the District Attorney's office. Her character is assigned to the case against Captain Cragen (Dann Florek), who is suspected of murder after what occurred title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit text: appeared (as Cassidy) on the two-part Season 14 premiere "Lost Reputation"/. He subsequently became a recurring character into season 15. The void left by Winters's departure was filled for the remainder of the season by Michelle Hurd as Detective Monique Jeffries, a character who Wolf promised that, despite starting out as a minor character with one scene in the pilot, would eventually develop. Hurd left the show at the beginning of season two to join the cast of "Leap Years". Munch's permanent partner came in the form of rapper-turned-actor Ice-T, who had previously worked with Wolf on "New York Undercover" title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit text: in season 13's episode "". In response to these departures, two new main actors were hired, and several changes were made to the recurring cast. In June 2011, it was announced that Kelli Giddish and Danny Pino would join the cast as new series regulars. Weeks later, it was announced that Stephanie March and Diane Neal would be reprising their roles as ADA Alexandra Cabot and ADA Casey Novak, respectively. The launch of season 13 was marked with a retooling of the show that Warren Leight referred to as "SVU 2.0". Changes that accompanied this included Tamara Tunie's being bumped