26 Facts About Amanda Rollins

Amanda Rollins has a dog named Frannie that she dotes on.

Amanda Rollins grew up in Loganville, and has a bachelor's degree in forensic science.

Amanda Rollins's father Jim is an alcoholic and a gambling addict who often beat her mother, Beth Anne, and her younger sister, Kim, is a cocaine addict with bipolar disorder whose frequent brushes with the law often cause trouble for Rollins.

Amanda Rollins has a strained relationship with her mother, who favors Kim and whom Rollins looks down on for not fighting back against the abuse she suffered.

Amanda Rollins tries to prove to Detectives Olivia Benson and Nick Amaro that the rapist originated in Atlanta and has come to New York for new prey.

Amanda Rollins nearly falls victim to him while trying to flush him out; the rapist has a preference for blonde, athletic women like her.

Amanda Rollins's shooting leads back to the daughter of Tutuola's former partner, who is seeking revenge on the NYPD after her father was injured on the job.

Kim makes withdrawals from the policy in both their names, making it look as if Amanda Rollins masterminded the plan to kill Parker, and disappears.

Amanda Rollins is arrested and charged with murder, but is exonerated with help from the SVU squad.

In "Spousal Privilege", Amanda Rollins expresses the belief that domestic violence should be kept private unless the victim wishes to come forward, feeling that the police have no right to make choices on a woman's behalf.

The father of Amanda Rollins' child is later revealed to be Lt.

However, near the end of the episode, Amanda Rollins finds Kim taking pills and accuses her sister of relapsing, only to learn that the drugs were actually lithium and asenapine, which Kim has been taking for bipolar disorder after being officially diagnosed during her trial.

The victim shows up at the station to complain that the investigation is hurting her business, and Amanda Rollins gives her $300 out of disgust; insulted, the victim throws the money in Amanda Rollins' face.

Amanda Rollins is wracked with guilt, but finds some comfort in going to church.

Amanda Rollins eventually asks her to move in with him at his apartment.

Amanda Rollins contemplates the situation, seeing as there is barely enough room for her and Jesse in her own apartment, yet is unsure of her own feelings for Pollack.

Amanda Rollins gives birth to a girl she names Billie in "A Story of More Woe"; Pollack proposes to her while she is in labor, but she rejects his proposal and breaks up with him, admitting that she does not love him.

In "Eternal Relief from Pain", Amanda Rollins is granted temporary custody of her nephew, Kim's son, and allows both of them to stay at her apartment.

Amanda Rollins reluctantly extends the invitation to her father Jim so that he can visit his grandchildren, even though he is a drug addict and the terms of Kim's parole bar her from associating with known addicts.

In "Solving for the Unknowns", Amanda Rollins is promoted to Detective 2nd Grade.

Amanda Rollins discloses this to Olivia during the episode "If I Knew Then What I Know Now".

Between the season 24 finale and the season 25 premiere, Amanda Rollins gives birth to her third child, and first with Carisi, a boy named Nicky.

Declan Murphy, who enlists Amanda Rollins to help him with a sting operation to arrest the club's owners.

The sting is successful, and Murphy makes sure that Amanda Rollins keeps her detective's shield.

Amanda Rollins has come from Atlanta and there was a ceiling there, so she's come up to New York.

Rather than have both newcomers paired together, Amanda Rollins is primarily partnered with Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola, a factor which contributed to the character's positive reception.