Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders Cast

The gripping events surrounding the murders of José and Kitty Menendez in 1989 took America by storm and led to controversial guilty verdicts against the wealthy couple's two sons.

Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders details the dramatic trials in which sons Lyle and Erik Menendez, then 21 and 18, were accused of brutally shooting their parents at their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989. Although the Menendez brothers were sentenced to life in prison for the murders in 1996, a recent wave of support for the men's release keeps the compelling story on the front pages of the news nearly 30 years later.

The 2017 Emmy Award-nominated Dick Wolf series, now streaming on Peacock, features eight jam-packed episodes detailing how the case became a national obsession and the people involved.

Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders features a stunning cast of actors who deliver worthy performances that only further buoy a story that continues to weigh on America's conscience.

Find out more by reading below.

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Edie Falco as Leslie Abramson

Emmy Award and Golden Globe winner Edie Falco (The Sopranos, Sister Jackie) received an Emmy nomination for his role as Erik Menendez's no-nonsense lawyer Leslie Abramson. Abramson's aggressive tactics in the courtroom helped catapult her into the national spotlight, where she fought tooth and nail to prove that the Menendez brothers killed her parents in self-defense.

In 2017, Falco discussed playing Abramson, who took “the unpopular position” of humanizing the defendants, it is said People.

“One of the main things I like about her is how seriously she takes her job. How good she is at it. “How committed she is to her clients to providing them with the best possible defense,” the actress said. “I was naively surprised to learn that she doesn't always believe that they are innocent, but rather that it is her job to represent them and – not specifically in this case – it is her job to represent these people fairly , regardless of their feelings about it.”

Miles Gaston Villanueva as Lyle Menendez

Soap opera actor Miles Gaston Villanueva (The Young and the Restless, The Young) played older brother Lyle Menendez, one of the two accused of shooting José and Kitty Menendez with two shotguns in the television room of their home. The brothers' lavish shopping spree – reportedly $700,000 People – The aftermath of the double murder led investigators to view the young men as suspects.

The brothers claimed they suffered a lifetime of physical and sexual abuse, a topic of discussion that continues in public forums to this day.

“We are all really grateful to be able to give a voice not only to the Menendez brothers, but also to other people who have suffered sexual, emotional or psychological abuse,” Villanueva said in a 2017 red carpet interview with On-air on-soaps.

Gus Halper as Erik Menendez

New York actor Gus Halper (Law & Order: Organized Crime, Rustin) portrayed younger brother Erik Menendez, whose confession to Lyle Menendez about the alleged sexual abuse prompted the young men to act, the defense said. In an interview on September 26, 2017 with Yahoo EntertainmentHalper talked about how “extremely difficult” it was to play the younger brother.

“In my opinion, they suffered some of the greatest trauma a human being could possibly have,” Halper said. “It's a really tragic, highly emotional, high-stakes story, so it was really tough. It's still very difficult. It hasn’t gotten any easier.”

Videos of Halper and Villanueva's performances as the Menendez brothers continue to reach millions on TikTok and elsewhere on social media.

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Josh Charles as Dr. Jerome Oziel

Emmy-nominated actor Josh Charles (The Good Wife, Dead Poets Society) is Dr. Jerome Oziel, the therapist to whom Lyle and Erik Menendez confessed, and a key player in the trial. The recorded confessions were a crucial part of the case, as the defense argued that such statements from the accused murderers were protected by medical confidentiality. According to an article from March 21, 1991 Los Angeles TimesOziel detailed the siblings' “planning and execution” of the murders and the “contrived alibi defense.”

Oziel's extramarital affair with his patient Judalon Smyth (played in: law and order spin-off by Heather Graham) heightened the scandal in the case and he was later stripped of his license for having sex with his clients Los Angeles Times.

Carlos Gomez as Jose Menendez

It wasn't easy for New York City-born Carlos Gómez (The Glades, Madam Secretary) He once told an NBC affiliate in West Palm Beach that he had to muster the emotional courage to play the role of suspected child molester Jose Menendez WPTV TV. Many believe the Cuban émigré's alleged abuse went unnoticed in part because he enjoyed million-dollar success as a prominent music manager.

“The more I researched Jose Menendez, the harder it was for me to believe that this guy could do something like that,” the actor said. “By all accounts he was an incredibly successful man. But as we would learn, there were terrible things.” Allegations of sexual and verbal abuse I couldn't help but think that this was the last image this man had of his children.

Lolita Davidovich as Kitty Menendez

Canadian actress Lolita Davidovich (Law & Order: Organized Crime, True Detective) plays the Menendez brothers' mother, murder victim Kitty Menendez. Ms. Menendez is widely portrayed as a resentful and indifferent woman who would have preferred to live the life of a Hollywood starlet rather than be a mother.

Kitty Menendez suffered 10 of the 16 shots as the brothers emptied their shotguns, went to the car to reload and returned to make sure the parents were dead. Lyle Menendez told the court that after the mother was shot, she “kind of snuck around the coffee table” before suffering a fatal, direct shot to the cheek, the court heard Los Angeles Times.

Additional cast Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders

Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders also features a dynamite supporting cast. Familiar faces include Anthony Edwards (HE, zodiac sign) as Judge Stanley Weisberg, Harry Hamlin (Clash of the Titans, mad Men) as lawyer Barry Levin, Juliane Nicholson (Easttown mare, Me, Tonya) as attorney Jill Lansing and Heather Graham (Boogie nights, the Hangover) as Judalon Smyth.

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