Robert Goren
| Robert Goren | |
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| Law & Order character | |
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| First appearance | Season 1: "One" |
| Last appearance | Season 10: "To the Boy In the Blue Knit Cap" |
| Portrayed by | Vincent D'Onofrio |
| Time on show | 2001–2011 |
| Seasons | 1–10 |
| Credited appearances | 141 episodes |
| Preceded by | None |
| Succeeded by | Zachary Nichols (most of season 9) |
| Information | |
| Occupation | Police Officer |
| Title | NYPD Junior Detective |
| Family | Frances Goren (mother) (deceased), William Goren (step-father) (deceased), Mark Ford Brady (father) (deceased), Frank Goren (brother, potentially half-brother) (deceased), Donny Carlson (nephew), Molly (niece) |
| Partner |
Alexandra Eames G. Lynn Bishop (temporary) |
Detective Robert “Bobby” Goren is a fictional character featured in the NBC-USA Network police procedural and legal drama television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent, portrayed by Vincent D'Onofrio.
Goren is a detective investigator first grade for the Major Case Squad in the New York City Police Department (NYPD). He is partnered with Det. Alexandra Eames (Kathryn Erbe). As created by executive producer René Balcer, Goren is an intense, extremely intelligent, and imposing man, but is also unpredictable and sometimes volatile. He appeared in 141 episodes.
A highly intelligent, emotionally intuitive man, Goren has a talent for forming complex psychological profiles and understanding the "why" of even the most unusual crimes. While intellectually gifted, he has many personal demons, and his eccentricity and unconventional investigative methods sometimes rub his colleagues the wrong way. Goren himself once described his policing ability by stating, "I am an acquired taste". Even his partner, Alexandra Eames, was at first so puzzled by his methods that she asked for a new partner. She eventually came to respect his abilities, however, and the two became very close.
At the end of the Season 7 episode "Smile", a central character says to Goren "You will never make senior partner. You are insubordinate, unstable" (also saying to his partner Eames she will never make captain).
Robert O. Goren was born on August 20, 1961, and grew up in the Canarsie neighborhood of Brooklyn, near The Rockaways. A phenomenally bright young man, he took the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory in his senior year of high school and was sent to speak with the school counselor and school psychiatrist as a result. He was an altar boy in the Roman Catholic Church.
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