Maria Bello will stop by NBC this fall.

The gorgeous actress will appear on two episodes of Law & Order: SVU, TVGuide.com reports. She'll portray a woman with a secret past who is at the center of a Detective Benson investigation.

Bello is best known as a movie star (A History of Violence, The Cooler) but recurred on ER for over 20 episodes back in 1997-98.

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