<Tr> <Th> Children </Th> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Parent (s) </Th> <Td> Charles Giddish Nita Giddish </Td> </Tr> <P> Kelli Marie Giddish (born April 13, 1980) is an American television, stage, and film actress . She is best known for her role as NYPD Detective Amanda Rollins in the NBC television legal crime drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2011--present). Previously, she portrayed Di Henry on the ABC soap opera All My Children (2005--07), as well as starring in short - lived Fox crime drama series Past Life (2010); and the NBC crime drama series Chase (2010--11). </P> <P> Giddish was born in Cumming, Georgia . She is the daughter of Charles and Nita Giddish, and has a brother named Eli . Her paternal grandfather Ralph L. Giddish (Georgia, ca . 1923) enlisted in the United States Army on March 18, 1943 and was a World War II veteran . He nudged her interest in acting along by taking her to the Fox Theatre in Atlanta . Her maternal grandmother Dosia Hildebrand was also very supportive of her interests . Giddish graduated from Forsyth Central High School in 1998, winning Region Best Actress in the 1997 One Act competition, and was also 1998 State Literary Champion for Girls Dramatic Interpretation . Giddish graduated with honors from the University of Evansville in Indiana where she majored in Theatre Performance . After graduating, she decided to move to Manhattan to pursue her acting career . </P>

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