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Odafin "Fin" Tutuola is a fictional character on the TV drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, played by Ice-T. He is a sergeant with the New York Police Department's Special Victims Unit. Tutuola is the second-most prolific character in the Law & Order franchise, having appeared in 456 episodes of SVU, behind only Olivia Benson. Additionally, having appeared in 22 seasons, the character is the fourth-longest running prime-time live-action character of all time, behind only Ken Barlow (61 years on Coronation Street), Olivia Benson (23 seasons on SVU) and John Munch (22 seasons: 7 on HLOTS and 15 on SVU).

Tutuola was raised in the Harlem area of New York City and was six years old during the 1968 riots following the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination, making his birth year 1961 or 1962. He has mentioned having a brother.

When he was a child, Tutuola witnessed his mother's murder at the hands of a business rival of his father, a petty criminal; 30 years later, while investigating an unrelated case, he discovered that his mother's killer was himself murdered.

According to the Season 11 episode "Disabled", Tutuola, while still in the police academy, was forced by circumstances to place his maternal grandfather, whom he credits for raising him, in a nursing home. His grandfather later died as a result of abuse from the staff. Tutuola later describes institutionalizing his grandfather as "the worst decision [he] ever made"; in his grief, rage, and guilt, he started fights with fellow officers "for the hell of it" and was almost kicked off the force until an academy instructor intervened and helped him salvage his career.

Odafin "Fin" Tutuola has not been a contender in any CBUB matches.