{"id":105916,"date":"2025-09-25T15:50:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T19:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=105916"},"modified":"2025-09-25T15:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T19:50:15","slug":"david-ajala-joins-law-order-this-season-as-a-series-regular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/25\/david-ajala-joins-law-order-this-season-as-a-series-regular\/","title":{"rendered":"David Ajala Joins &#8220;Law &#038; Order&#8221; This Season as a Series Regular"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Ajala joins <em>&#8220;Law &amp; Order&#8221;<\/em> this season as a series regular playing a detective alongside Reid Scott&#8217;s character, Det. Vincent Riley.<\/p>\n<h3>BIO<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_105918\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105918\" style=\"width: 666px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-105918 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/David-Ajala-20250924.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"999\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/David-Ajala-20250924.webp 666w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/David-Ajala-20250924-200x300.webp 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-105918\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PHOTO CREDIT Jemima Marriott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>London-born David Ajala is best known for his portrayal of Cleveland Booker in <em>&#8220;Star Trek: Discovery.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><div id=\"morty-1871685309\" class=\"morty-content morty-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>He can next be seen in Netflix&#8217;s upcoming drama<em>&#8220;The Woman in Cabin 10,&#8221;<\/em> alongside Keira Knightley, Guy Pearce, and Hannah Waddingham, about a journalist aboard a luxury yacht who witnesses a passenger thrown overboard, only to be told that it never happened.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, he starred in the mystery thriller series<em> &#8220;Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue,&#8221;<\/em> opposite Eric McCormack. He also appeared in the BBC drama series <em>&#8220;The Jetty.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ajala recurred on CW&#8217;s<em> &#8220;Supergirl&#8221;<\/em> and co-starred in SYFY&#8217;s adaptation of the George R.R. Martin&#8217;s 1980 novella &#8220;<em>Nightflyers<\/em>.&#8221; Other series on his resume include &#8220;<em>Black Box<\/em>&#8221; &#8220;<em>Falling Water<\/em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>Trexxand Flipside<\/em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>Law &amp; Order: UK,<\/em>&#8221; &#8220;<em>Death in Paradise<\/em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>Silent Witness<\/em>&#8221; and the wildly popular &#8220;<em>Dr. Who<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His film roles include &#8220;<em>The Dark Knight<\/em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>The Fast &amp; the Furious 6<\/em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>Jupiter Ascending,<\/em>&#8221; &#8220;<em>Starred Up<\/em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>Payback Season<\/em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>One Day<\/em>&#8221; and &#8220;<em>Kill Command<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><div id=\"morty-4289131176\" class=\"morty-content_2 morty-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ajala began his career performing with the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Courtyard Theater in Stratford-upon-Avon and most recently starred on the West End in &#8220;<em>My Master Builder<\/em>,&#8221; opposite Ewan McGregor and Elizabeth Debicki. He has performed in productions of &#8220;<em>The Witness<\/em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>Hamlet<\/em>&#8221; and &#8220;<em>A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h4>ABOUT &#8220;LAW &amp; ORDER&#8221;<\/h4>\n<p>The 25th season premieres Thursday, September 25 @ 8PM ET\/ET on NBC and streams the next day on Peacock.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Law &amp; Order<\/em>&#8221; is produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, in association with Wolf Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>Executive producers are Dick Wolf, Rick Eid, Alex Hall, and Peter Jankowski.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"content_block\" id=\"custom_post_widget-26535\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themoviedb.org\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25983\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/program-info-provided-by-tmdb.jpg\" alt=\"Powered by TMDB.org\" width=\"250\" height=\"52\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/program-info-provided-by-tmdb.jpg 353w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/program-info-provided-by-tmdb-300x63.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/program-info-provided-by-tmdb-350x74.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"line-height: .4em;\"><span style=\"white-space: pre-wrap; font: normal 8pt Arial;\">TV &amp; Movie information has been provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themoviedb.org\/\">themoviedb.org<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Ajala joins &#8220;Law &amp; Order&#8221; this season as a series regular playing a detective alongside Reid Scott&#8217;s character, Det. 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