Peter Scanavino

Peter Scanavino currently stars as A.D.A Sonny Carisi Jr. on Law and Order: SVU.

Other selected TV & Film work includes: Social Distance (Netflix), The Cold Lands (dir. Tom Gilroy), Mutual Friends (dir. Matt Watts), The Leftovers (HBO), Banshee (Cinemax), Person of Interest, Golden Boy, A Gifted Man (CBS), Do No Harm (NBC), and The Good Wife (CBS). 

Peter made his Broadway debut in 2006 in the TONY Nominated play, Shining City, directed by Robert Falls. Other theater work includes: Boys Life (dir. Michael Greif / Second Stage Theater), subUrbia (dir. Jo Bonney / Second Stage Theater) Rainbow Kiss (59E59th Street Theater), and David Henry Hwang’s play, Yellow Face (dir Leigh Silverman / Mark Taper Forum).

In 2010, Peter took time away from acting to study Culinary Arts at the French Culinary Institute in NYC after which he worked briefly in the kitchen of Dan Barbers Michelin starred restaurant, Blue Hill, in Greenwich Village. Peter lives in Brooklyn with his wife and children.

Instagram/Twitter: @peterscanavino