Janine Turner wants people to know she's back. The fondly remembered Northern Exposure star (and long-ago fiancé of Alec Baldwin) who's been living on a Texas ranch raising her daughter and writing a book about single motherhood, has moved to New York and won a role in Law & Order: SVU. (Luckily for her, the episode — in which she plays an activist in a story about stolen embryos — is filming this week just under the writers' strike wire.)

Turner, whose last TV work was the Lifetime medical series Strong Medicine, also has coming up a woman-in-jep movie for that cabler called Primal Doubt opposite Saw IV's Costas Mandylor, whom we prefer to remember from Picket Fences.

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