10 Actors You Didn't Know Played TWO Characters On TV Shows

8. Jerry Orbach - Law & Order

SOOTHSAYER AMY POND
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The late, great Jerry Orbach is surely best remembered for playing NYPD Detective Lennie Briscoe on Law & Order for a whopping twelve seasons, as well as occasionally reprising the role in several of the show's spin-offs.

But barely a year before Briscoe made his screen debut, Orbach had a one-off appearance in L&O's second season episode "The Wages of Love", playing a defense attorney by the name of Frank Lehrman who was defending a woman accused of murdering her ex-husband.

It's enough to blow the mind of any fan revisiting the show's earlier seasons, and proves all the more bizarre because Lehrman isn't a million miles away from Briscoe in terms of manner and personality.

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