Nina Cassady
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| Law & Order character | |
| Det. Nina Cassady | |
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| Time on show | 2006—2007 |
| Preceded by | Ed Green |
| Succeeded by | Cyrus Lupo |
| First appearance | "Fame" |
| Last appearance | "The Family Hour" |
| Portrayed by | Milena Govich |
Det. Nina Cassady is a fictional character on the NBC crime drama Law & Order, portrayed by Milena Govich. Cassady, the first female detective in the original Law & Order series, appeared in the first episode of the seventeenth season. Cassady worked alongside Det. Ed Green (Jesse L. Martin).[1]
[edit] Character Development
She was transferred to the 27th after a shootout at a beauty parlor, which led to the press nicknaming her "Detective Beauty Queen". Other episodes revealed that she was born in Queens, New York, came from a family of police officers and attended Sunday school for six years. [2]
[edit] In L&O
She was initially looked down upon for having less experience than her fellow homicide detectives, and her promotion to Homicide was seen as a fluke after her high profile shootout in the beauty parlor. In the 17 season opener, there was tension with her boss, Lt. Anita Van Buren (S. Epatha Merkerson), who stated that she had a "hand-picked" replacement for Det. Joe Fontana (Dennis Farina), a much older and more experienced detective. Van Buren appeared to have come to accept Cassady, however, at least up until the season finale (L&O: "Family Hour"). After Cassady botched an interrogation by losing her temper and goading a suspect who was close to confessing (the suspect was enraged to the point that he threw a chair through a glass window), Van Buren chastised her for acting unprofessionally after eight months on the job, suggesting that Cassady may not have a future in homicide at the 27th precinct. Cassady was no longer a character of the precinct at the start of the eighteenth season, succeeded by Cyrus Lupo.
Cassady is of Irish descent, as is revealed after a famous actor (played by Chevy Chase) used anti-Semitic slurs against her while being interrogated. (L&O: "In Vino Veritas")
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