Joanna Merlin, who made her mark in Harold Prince's production of Fiddler on the Roof before transitioning to a successful career in casting for iconic musicals like Company, Follies, Evita, and Sweeney Todd, also appeared in the NBC crime drama Law & Order and its spin-off, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, where she portrayed the stern Judge Lena Petrovsky from 2000 to 2011.
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