Los Angeles ? Alfred Molina to join new ‘Law & Order’

Veteran film and Broadway actor Alfred Molina is joining the cast of “Law & Order: Los Angeles,” which debuts this fall as the newest member of the NBC crime drama family.

Molina will play Deputy District Attorney Morales, said Dick Wolf, creator and executive producer of the series nicknamed “LOLA” that will air 9 p.m. Central time on Wednesdays.

The show’s premiere date — and the first name of Molina’s character — have yet to be announced.

“I am thrilled that Fred is ‘LOLA’s’ deputy D.A.,” Wolf said in a statement Saturday, adding that Molina joins a list of outstanding character actors who have starred in “Law & Order” series, including Sam Waterston, Dianne Wiest and Michael Moriarity.

Skeet Ulrich (“Jericho”) plays a lead detective in the new crime drama that, like its predecessors, divides its episodes between the work of police and prosecutors.