Character history[edit]. Van Buren joins the cast in the 1993 episode "Sweeps", succeeding Capt. Don Cragen (Dann Florek) as commander of the ...
After 20 years on NBC, "Law & Order" faded out last night with the quiet
She joined the show as Lt. Van Buren in its fourth season in 1993. Since then Ms. Merkerson has appeared in more than 375 episodes of “Law ...
Merkerson, whose character, Lt. Anita Van Buren, has been battling cancer, joined the series in 1991, replacing Dann Florek, whose Capt.
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Van Buren was one of the first and is still one of the few female African-American ... The following year, she joined the cast of "Law & Order.
Lieutenant Anita Van Buren was the commanding officerof the 27th Precinctfor almost 20 years...
10. Nina Cassady (Milena Govich)/Ed Green (Jesse L. Martin): 2006-2007. Lt. Van Buren (S. Epatha Merkerson) was not a big fan of Cassady ...
on Law & Order in 2010, when she said goodbye to beloved Lt. Anita Van Buren ... She got her start as Reba the Mailwoman on Pee-Wee's Playhouse in 1986 ...
2016 fall TV preview: Law & Order veteran S. Epatha Merkerson finds a home on Chicago Med.