Octavio Pisano is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Detective Joe Velasco, one of the core New York City Police Department detectives investigating sexually-based crimes, on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
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Law & Order: Organized Crime (2021)
Guest starring as Detective Joe Velasco
(3 episodes)
- Episode 3x22: With Many Names (May 18, 2023) [Special Guest Star]
- Episode 3x01: Gimme Shelter, Part I (Sep 22, 2022) [Special Guest Star]
- Episode 2x20: Lost One (May 5, 2022) [Special Guest Star]
Coyote (2021)
Starring as Sultan
(5 episodes)
- Episode 1x06: Plaza de Nada (Jan 7, 2021)
- Episode 1x04: Juan Doe (Jan 7, 2021)
- Episode 1x03: Sin of Origin (Jan 7, 2021)
- Episode 1x02: Silver or Lead (Jan 7, 2021)
- Episode 1x01: Call of the Void (Jan 7, 2021)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
Starring as Detective Joe Velasco
(62 episodes)
- Episode 27x03: A Vicious Circle (Oct 9, 2025)
- Episode 27x02: A Waiver of Consent (Oct 2, 2025)
- Episode 27x01: In The Wind (Sep 25, 2025)
- Episode 26x22: Post-Rage (May 15, 2025)
- Episode 26x21: Aperture (May 8, 2025)
- Episode 26x20: Shock Collar (May 1, 2025)
- Episode 26x19: Play With Fire Part 2 (Apr 17, 2025)
- Episode 26x18: The Accuser (Apr 10, 2025)
- Episode 26x17: Accomplice Liability (Apr 3, 2025)
- Episode 26x14: The Grid Plan (Feb 27, 2025)
- Episode 26x13: Extinguished (Feb 20, 2025)
- Episode 26x12: Calculated (Feb 13, 2025)
- Episode 26x11: Deductible (Jan 30, 2025)
- Episode 26x10: Master Key (Jan 23, 2025)
- Episode 26x09: First Light (Jan 16, 2025)
- Episode 26x08: Cornered (Nov 21, 2024)
- Episode 26x06: Rorschach (Nov 7, 2024)
- Episode 26x05: Economics of Shame (Oct 31, 2024)
- Episode 26x04: Constricted (Oct 24, 2024)
- Episode 26x02: Excavation (Oct 10, 2024)
- Episode 26x01: Fractured (Oct 3, 2024)
- Episode 25x13: Duty To Hope (May 16, 2024)
- Episode 25x12: Marauder (May 9, 2024)
- Episode 25x10: Combat Fatigue (Apr 18, 2024)
- Episode 25x09: Children of Wolves (Apr 11, 2024)
- Episode 25x07: Probability of Doom (Mar 14, 2024)
- Episode 25x06: Carousel (Feb 29, 2024)
- Episode 25x05: Zone Rouge (Feb 22, 2024)
- Episode 25x03: The Punch List (Feb 1, 2024)
- Episode 25x02: Truth Embargo (Jan 25, 2024)
- Episode 25x01: Tunnel Blind (Jan 18, 2024)
- Episode 24x22: All Pain Is One Malady (May 18, 2023)
- Episode 24x21: Bad Things (May 11, 2023)
- Episode 24x20: Debatable (May 4, 2023)
- Episode 24x19: Bend the Law (Apr 27, 2023)
- Episode 24x17: Lime Chaser (Mar 30, 2023)
- Episode 24x15: King of the Moon (Feb 23, 2023)
- Episode 24x13: Intersection (Feb 2, 2023)
- Episode 24x12: Blood Out (Jan 26, 2023)
- Episode 24x11: Soldier Up (Jan 12, 2023)
- Episode 24x10: Jumped In (Jan 5, 2023)
- Episode 24x09: And a Trauma in a Pear Tree (Dec 8, 2022)
- Episode 24x08: A Better Person (Nov 17, 2022)
- Episode 24x07: Dead Ball (Nov 10, 2022)
- Episode 24x06: Controlled Burn (Nov 3, 2022)
- Episode 24x05: Breakwater (Oct 27, 2022)
- Episode 24x04: The Steps We Cannot Take (Oct 13, 2022)
- Episode 24x03: Mirror Effect (Oct 6, 2022)
- Episode 24x02: The One You Feed (Sep 29, 2022)
- Episode 24x01: Gimme Shelter, Part II (Sep 22, 2022)
- Episode 23x22: A Final Call At Forlini's Bar (May 19, 2022)
- Episode 23x21: Confess Your Sins to Be Free (May 12, 2022)
- Episode 23x19: Tangled Strands of Justice (Apr 28, 2022)
- Episode 23x18: Eighteen Wheels a Predator (Apr 14, 2022)
- Episode 23x17: Once Upon a Time in El Barrio (Apr 7, 2022)
- Episode 23x16: Sorry If It Got Weird for You (Mar 17, 2022)
- Episode 23x15: Promising Young Gentlemen (Mar 10, 2022)
- Episode 23x14: Video Killed the Radio Star (Mar 3, 2022)
- Episode 23x12: Tommy Baker's Hardest Fight (Jan 20, 2022)
- Episode 23x11: Burning With Rage Forever (Jan 13, 2022)
- Episode 23x08: Nightmares in Drill City (Nov 11, 2021)
- Episode 23x07: They'd Already Disappeared (Nov 4, 2021)
Guest starring as Detective Joe Velasco
(4 episodes)
- Episode 27x17: Deep Under (Apr 9, 2026) [Special Guest Star]
- Episode 23x04: One More Tale of Two Victims (Oct 7, 2021)
- Episode 23x02: Never Turn Your Back on Them (Sep 23, 2021)
- Episode 23x01: And the Empire Strikes Back (Sep 23, 2021)