Stephanie March

Stephanie Caroline March Benton (born July 23, 1974) is an American actress.

In 1996, March graduated from Northwestern University, where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.

At Northwestern University, March played Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream in Chicago, where she continued to pursue her stage career.

In 1997, she made her screen debut in an episode of the CBS series Early Edition.

In 1999, March moved to New York and made her Broadway debut in a production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman with Brian Dennehy.

She later co-starred in the television film based on the play.

She is known for starring as Alexandra Cabot in the crime drama franchise Law & Order, which she played in the NBC series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2000–2018) and reprised in other media.

The role earned her a nomination for the Satellite Award for Best Television Series – Drama.

March is best known for her role as Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cabot on the NBC crime legal drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, who she played as a main character from 2000 to 2003, and reprised in recurring appearances on the show until 2018.

The character of Cabot and March's work has earned widespread acclaim, and is often considered one of the best characters and acting performances in the Law & Order franchise.

On Special Victims Unit, the character of Cabot was a regular character from 2000 to 2003, and departed in the Season 5 episode "Loss", when Cabot is shot and placed in witness protection.

She originally returned to the series in Season 6 episode 16, “Ghost”, when she was taken out of the witness protection program to testify, as a witness, for her attempted murder.

She was placed back in witness protection after the trial.

She returned to the series for a six-episode arc in Season 10 and then continued as a main character in Season 11.

After her departure near the end of Season 11, she returned again in Season 13 as a recurring character.

She reprised her role once again in an episode on the show's nineteenth season.

March has appeared in the films Head of State (2003), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Falling for Grace (2006), The Treatment (2006) and Jesse Stone: Night Passage (2006).

In 2003, at the 8th Golden Satellite Awards, she and her Law & Order: Special Victims Unit co-stars were nominated for the Satellite Award for Best Television Series – Drama.

In 2003, March made her film debut with a supporting role in the political comedy Head of State opposite Chris Rock.

She later appeared in the films Mr. & Mrs. Smith, The Treatment, and Falling for Grace, the latter two romantic comedies.

March additionally reprised her role as Cabot, now the Bureau Chief ADA of the homicide bureau, on the short-lived NBC courtroom drama Conviction, which debuted in spring 2006.

The show, which saw March in a leading role and was part of the Law & Order universe, was cancelled after one 13-episode season following a negative reception from critics and audiences.

Despite this, March's acting was praised.

Review site Entertain your Brain wrote that "... March, she has already proven herself on Special Victims Unit."

In 2007, March performed in the Broadway premiere of Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio, starring Liev Schreiber.

She also starred in Howard Korder's off-Broadway play Boy's Life alongside Jason Biggs.

March has guest-starred on 30 Rock, Grey's Anatomy, Rescue Me, and Happy Endings.

March also appeared in the 2009 film The Invention of Lying as the woman Ricky Gervais's character tells the world will end unless she has sex with him.

She later co-starred in the independent films Why Stop Now? and Innocence.

She was cast as a regular character on the short-lived CBS legal comedy-drama Made in Jersey in 2012, but she left the series after the pilot episode.

March co-founded the cosmetics company SheSpoke (formerly Rouge) with her business partner Rebecca Perkins in 2013.

The company creates custom-made beauty products available online and in-store in SoHo, New York.

She starred in the 2015 Adult Swim series Neon Joe, Werewolf Hunter. March played the role of Ivanka Trump in the March 2019 Comedy Central TV movie A President Show Documentary: The Fall of Donald Trump.

Following a period of sporadic work, March executive produced and starred in the comedy independent film The Social Ones (2019).

She played Akira on the superhero series Naomi (2022).

March was born in Dallas, Texas, the daughter of John and Laura March, and has a sister, Charlotte.

She attended McCulloch Middle School in Highland Park, and Highland Park High School, where Law & Order's Angie Harmon, who played the role of an assistant district attorney on Law & Order, attended concurrently.

After her parents' divorce, her mother married Robert Derby.

On March 9, 2019, The Social Ones premiered at the Hammer Theatre Center in San Jose, California, as part of the 2019 Cinequest Film and Creativity Festival.

The 22-minute documentary is a comedic portrayal of the aftermath of Trump's imagined loss of the 2020 presidential election.