
Danny Pino
Department: Acting
Biography
Daniel Gonzalo Pino (born April 15, 1974) is an American actor who starred as Detective Scotty Valens on the CBS series Cold Case from 2003 to 2010, and as NYPD Detective Nick Amaro in the long-running NBC legal drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit from 2011 to 2015. In 2002, he appeared in London's West End in Up for Grabs with Madonna. In May 2003, Pino played Desi Arnaz in a CBS special on the life of Lucille Ball, Lucy. He played drug cartel leader Miguel Galindo on Mayans M.C. which airs on FX, and FBI agent John Bishop in procedural crime drama Gone.
Known For

Across the Hall
2009

Flicka
2006

Rx
2005

Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright
2010

Lucy
2003

The Burning Plain
2008

The Lost City
2005

Union of Kings
2024

Crunk
2024

Between
2005

Kelly's Hollywood
2015

Point of Origin
2002

Dear Evan Hansen
2021

Fatale
2020

Vivo
2021

The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU
2020

NYPD 2069
2004

Pedro Pan
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2CRUNK
2025

Cold Case
2003

CSI: NY
2004

Men, Women & Dogs
2001

Hotel Cocaine
2024

The Good Fight
2017

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999

Burn Notice
2007

BrainDead
2016

Scandal
2012

Chicago P.D.
2014

Gone
2018

The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019

Mayans M.C.
2018

The Shield
2002

Rachael Ray
2006

One Day at a Time
2017

Accused
2023