Jerome Bernard Orbach (October 20 1935 – December 28 2004) was an American actor best known for his starring role as wisecracking New York Police Department Detective Lennie Briscoe in the Law & Order television series, and for his musical theater roles.

Biography

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Orbach was born in the Bronx, a borough of New York City, to Emily Olexy (a Polish American Catholic) and Leon Orbach, a German Jew of Sephardic descent. He was raised as a Roman Catholic. While he was still a child, his family moved to Mount Vernon, New York; Wilkes-Barre and Scranton, Pennsylvania; Springfield, Massachusetts; and Waukegan, Illinois. He studied drama at The University of Illinois and Northwestern University, then went to New York, where he studied with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio.

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