She briefly replaced Gabrielle Fitzpatrick as Dulcea in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, although her scenes were cut from the film when Fitzpatrick recovered from her surgery and returned to the film. Hargitay also had a minor role in the 1995 film Leaving Las Vegas. Her voice is featured on the 2005 video game True Crime: New York City. Hargitay has appeared on numerous other television programs, including: Freddy's Nightmares – A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Series, Ellen, All-American Girl, Baywatch, Cracker, Gabriel's Fire, In the Heat of the Night, The Single Guy, Wiseguy, and thirtysomething. A year later she had a small role in the horror film Ghoulies. In 1984, Hargitay appeared in Ronnie Milsap's music video for " She Loves My Car", the first country music video to appear on MTV. Career Īfter Hargitay was crowned Miss Beverly Hills USA, she competed in the Miss California USA pageant the following year and placed fourth runner-up to Julie Hayek, who was later crowned Miss USA. Hargitay attended Groundlings Theatre and School in Los Angeles. She attended UCLA School of Theater Film and Television where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. By the time she was a freshman in college, Hargitay had an agent and several small roles to her credit. That same year, Hargitay was crowned Miss Beverly Hills USA. She enjoyed acting and enrolled at UCLA after graduation from high school in 1982. While a student at her Catholic secondary school, Marymount High School, Hargitay was active in cheerleading, student government, athletics, and the theater program. Hargitay's father died in 2006 from multiple myeloma in Los Angeles, California, at age 80. I will always be a girl who lost her mom". Hargitay has said that the early loss of her mother left "a hole in my life that won't ever be filled. Universe, so it would be fun for me to be Miss Universe". Hargitay dislikes comparisons with her famous mother and, at age 18, said, "My dad was Mr. After the death of their mother, the three siblings were raised by their father and his third wife, Ellen Siano. Her brothers, Miklós and Zoltán, escaped with minor injuries. Asleep in the back of the vehicle, Mariska, then three-and-a-half years old, was left with a zigzag scar on one side of her head. The accident ripped off the top of the car, instantly killing Mansfield, her boyfriend Sam Brody, and the driver. On June 29, 1967, Mansfield was in an automobile accident on a stretch of U.S.
By the summer of 1966, however, Mansfield and Cimber had filed for divorce. A few weeks later, Mansfield married the director Matt Cimber, who had directed her in a 1964 production of the William Inge play Bus Stop.
In August 1964, Hargitay's mother successfully petitioned the court to rule the Mexican divorce legal. They reconciled a few months before Hargitay's birth in January 1964, but soon separated again. Hargitay's parents divorced in May 1963, but a judge later found their Mexican divorce invalid. She was raised Catholic and has two older brothers, Miklós and Zoltán, as well as three half-siblings, Jayne Marie Mansfield and Antonio "Tony" Cimber (from her mother's first and third marriages, respectively) and Tina Hargitay (from her father's first marriage). Her first and middle names are Hungarian and refer to Mary Magdalene (Mariska is a diminutive of Mary). Her father was the Hungarian-born former Mr. Hargitay was born at Providence Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California, the daughter of actress and 1950s-era sex symbol Jayne Mansfield. Outside of acting, she founded the Joyful Heart Foundation, which provides support to people who have been sexually abused.
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Her breakthrough came with playing Olivia Benson on the NBC drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999–present), for which she has received acclaim and several accolades she reprises the role in Law & Order: Organized Crime (2021–present). She had a main role in the crime drama series Downtown (1986), played the recurring role of Carly Fixx in Falcon Crest (1988), and continued to appear in numerous film and television series throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Hargitay made her debut with an appearance in the music video " She Loves My Car" (1984) by Ronnie Milsap, and subsequently starred in the horror comedy film Ghoulies (1985). The daughter of bodybuilder and actor Mickey Hargitay and actress Jayne Mansfield, her accolades include a Golden Globe Award, two People's Choice Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award.
Mariska Magdolna Hargitay ( / m ə ˈ r ɪ ʃ k ə ˈ h ɑːr ɡ ɪ t eɪ/ born January 23, 1964) is an American actress, director, producer and philanthropist.
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