Jesse L. Martin leaving ‘Law & Order’ to be replaced by Anthony Anderson

 

Actor Jesse L. Martin is leaving the long-running NBC drama is leaving NBC’s Law & Order after nine years on the show.

Martin will film one more episode of the series, in which his character, Detective Ed Green, will be written off, sources said. The actor had signed on to do the first 13 episodes this season with an option for more.

Anthony Anderson, star of Fox’s freshman cop drama K-Ville, is in final talks to come on board as a new detective, partnered  with Jeremy Sisto’s Cyrus Lupo, who joined the revolving lineup this season. Anderson previously appeared as a cop on an episode of the spinoff “Law & Order: SVU.”

Anderson’s credits also include FX’s “The Shield,” Martin Scorsese’s “The Departed” and, most recently, Fox’s gritty cop drama “K-Ville,” for which he landed an Image Award nomination. His feature credits also “Barbershop” and “Hustle & Flow.”

Martin recently finished work on the feature Peter and Vandy, and will next play Marvin Gaye in the indie biopic Sexual Healing, which also stars James Gandolfini.

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