Nick Amaro
| Nicolas "Nick" Amaro | |
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| Law & Order character | |
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| First appearance | "Personal Fouls" |
| Last appearance | "Surrendering Noah" |
| Portrayed by | Danny Pino |
| Time on show | 2011–15 |
| Seasons | 13, 14, 15, 16 |
| Credited appearances | 94 episodes (SVU) 2 episodes (CPD) 96 episodes (total) |
| Information | |
| Title | NYPD Junior Detective |
| Family | Cesaria Amaro (mother) Nicolas Fiorello Amaro (father) Sonya Amaro (sister) Zara Amaro (daughter) Maria Grazie Amaro (ex-wife) Gilberto Mancheno (son) |
| Partner |
Olivia Benson Dominick Carisi Jr. |
Nicolas "Nick" Amaro is a fictional character on the NBC police procedural drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, portrayed by Danny Pino. Amaro is a detective with the Manhattan SVU at the 16th Precinct of the New York City Police Department.
Amaro's father, Nicolas Amaro, Sr. (Armand Assante), was abusive to both his mother and him, and later fled to Miami, Florida. Amaro is of Cuban descent and attributes his firm belief in divorce to watching his mother, Cesaria (Nancy Ticotin), suffer through her marriage. Amaro testifies against his father when Nicolas is accused of beating his new fiancee, Gabriela, but the elder Amaro is acquitted. After the trial, Amaro and his father make a tentative reconciliation.
Amaro is fluent in Spanish, and has some Latin. He was married at the start of his tenure with SVU, with a young daughter named Zara.
His wife, Maria (Laura Benanti), is stationed overseas for a year, reporting in Iraq, and their marriage is strained by her deployment. In the fourteenth season premiere, she reveals to Amaro that she is accepting a job in Washington, D.C., and following an argument, they separate. Amaro questions if Maria was diagnosed with PTSD, and expresses his regret that he did not try harder to understand what she was going through. Maria offers to reconcile with Amaro if he moves to California with her and Zara. He ultimately refuses to do so, however.
He also has a son with a former girlfriend, Cynthia, named Gil, whom he meets for the first time in the episode "Undercover Blue".
Amaro is a NYPD Detective 2nd Grade who transfers to the Special Victims Unit after spending time with both the Warrants and Narcotics squads. Like Fin, he had previously worked undercover while in Narcotics. Initially, Amaro does not see eye to eye with his new partner, Detective Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay), mainly because she misses her old partner, Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni). Despite their rocky start, however, Amaro and Benson grow to have a mutual respect for each other and work well together.
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