As the longtime star of , Mariska Hargitay is famous in her own right. But Hargitay’s mom, a 1950s Hollywood icon, might be even more well-known than the actress. Keep reading to learn all about .
(known as or just ), is NBC’s crime drama created by Dick Wolf’s Wolf Entertainment. It’s the first spin-off of and follows a group of specially trained detectives in the New York City Police Department that investigate sexually related crimes.
Hargitay has portrayed Commanding Officer (and former Detective) Olivia Benson of the Manhattan Special Victims unit since the very first season in 1999. “I read the script and I just—I knew in my gut that I had to do this role. I had never been so excited about it,” the actress told in May 2019. “And the thing that was interesting is that my agent called me, and he said, ‘Maris, you know it’s very dark subject matter.
I don’t know if it’s your thing. I don’t know if it’s going to be your bag, it’s super dark.’ I read it and just, you know, chills. And I knew I had to do it.”
The actress is married to actor Peter Hermann, who is best known for his role in . The couple met on the set of in early 2002. They dated for about two years, then got married in Santa Barbara, California, in 2004. They have three children: son August Miklos Hermann, 17, daughter Amaya Josephine Hermann, 12, and son Andrew Nicholas Hermann, 11.
(Amaya and Andrew are both adopted.) “Our family is so perfect, or at least perfect for me,” she told in March 2018. “The beauty is that families are made in so many different ways, and that was my reality as a child.
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