<Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> Lisha Bai </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Children </Th> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <P> Peter Scanavino (born February 29, 1980) is an American actor . He stars as NYPD Detective Dominick Carisi Jr. in the long - running NBC crime / legal drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit . </P> <P> Since 2005, Scanavino has had dozens of minor roles in films and on television, most notably Deception (2008), The Good Wife and The Blacklist . </P>

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