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Det. Nina Cassady is a fictional character on the NBC crime drama Law & Order, portrayed by Milena...

Det. Nina Cassady is a fictional character on the NBC crime drama Law & Order, portrayed by Milena Govich. Cassady, the first, and so far only, female detective in the original Law & Order series, appeared in the first episode of the seventeenth season. Cassady worked alongside Det. Ed Green (Jesse L. Martin). Govich initially appeared on Law & Order as a bartender in the sixteenth season episode "Flaw". She was transferred to the 27th Precinct after a shootout at a beauty parlor, which led to the press nicknaming her "Detective Beauty Queen". Other episodes revealed that she was born in Queens, New York, came from a family of police officers, and attended Sunday school for six years. She is initially looked down upon for having less experience than her fellow homicide detectives, and her promotion to homicide is seen as a fluke after her high profile shootout in a beauty parlor. In the seventeeth season opener, there is tension with her boss, Lt. Anita Van Buren (S. Epatha Merkerson), who states that Van Buren had a "hand-picked" replacement for Det. Joe Fontana (Dennis Farina), a much older and more experienced detective. Van Buren appears to have come to accept Cassady, however,