An American actor by the name of Christopher Peter Meloni was born on April 2, 1961.

Christopher Meloni played quarterback for the football team while a student at St. Stephen’s School in Alexandria, Virginia (now St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes School).

Are Christopher Meloni and Mariska Hargitay friends?

Even now, more than two decades later, the two are still close friends and now got back together for a crossover event between Law & Order: SVU and its Stabler-focused spinoff, Law & Order: Organized Crime. Hargitay even serves as the godmother of Meloni’s daughter.

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At the University of Colorado in Boulder, Christopher Meloni pursued acting studies before earning a history degree in 1983.

Christopher Meloni’s television credits include playing NYPD Detective Elliot Stabler on the NBC legal drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit for its first 12 seasons and its spinoff Law & Order: Organized Crime, as well as playing inmate Chris Keller on the HBO prison drama Oz.