Ruth Maleczech

Ruth Sophia Reinprecht, professionally known as Ruth Maleczech, was an American avant-garde stage actress. She won three Obie Awards for Best Actress in her career, for Hajj, Through the Leaves, and Lear and an Obie Award for Design, shared with Julie Archer, for Vanishing Pictures, which she also directed. Her portrayal of King Lear as an imperious Southern matriarch in Lear was widely acclaimed.

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LAW & ORDER · S13, E12

Under God

Scott Giddins is a drug dealer, found dead near the Williamsburg Bridge. Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) canvass the neighborhood near his home and find a young woman in his apartment, close to death from a drug overdose. Scott was a bad guy - he had a reputation for selling drugs and hurting people. One of his acquaintances leads the cops to Bill Parker, a bus driver who was seen chasing Scott with a lead pipe because he was responsible for his teenage son's overdose and death. Briscoe is disturbed by the whole case, because it reminds him that his own daughter died at the age of 24, as a result of someone no different than Scott.
ER · S3, E15

The Long Way Around

Although she is suspended from work, Carol experiences a busy day when she and a store full of customers are taken hostage. She helps the victims while the hostages are still there.
LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT · S3, E16

The Saint

An elderly woman's murder leads detectives to investigate the activities of a forger (Stephen Colbert) whose expertise is needed to verify documents proving the sainthood of a 19th-century healer named Brother Jerome.