Early Life :
Christopher Peter Meloni is an American actor. After graduation, he went to New York where he continued his studies with Sanford Meisner, as well as the Center for the Media Arts. He broke into series TV in 1989.

Career Highlights :
His first noticeable role was as the hotheaded son of a Mafia Don in the thriller movie Bound (1996). He is best known for his television roles as inmate Chris Keller on the HBO prison drama Oz (1997) and NYPD Detective Elliot Stabler on the NBC police drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999). In June 2012, he returned to HBO, as the vampire Roman on the main cast of True Blood for the series` fifth season. His most well known films are 12 Monkeys (1995), Runaway Bride (1999), Wet Hot American Summer (2001), Man of Steel and 42 (both in 2013). He will soon be seen in The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015) and I Am Wrath (2016).

Awards :
He won OFTA Television Awards in 1999 for Best Guest Actor in a Cable Series Oz.