About Mariska
Mariska Magdolina Hargitay was born on January 23, 1964, in Los Angeles, California. Her parents are Mickey Hargitay and Jayne Mansfield, and she is the youngest of their three children.Mariska majored in theater at UCLA but dropped out before graduating. She has appeared in the films Ghoulies (1985), Leaving Las Vegas (1995), Lake Placid (1999), and Plain Truth (2004).
In 1999 she was cast in the role of Det. Olivia Benson in "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (1999), the first spinoff from the franchise of "Law & Order" (1990). This show deals with sex crimes and the detectives who solve these cases.
Mariska speaks English, Hungarian, French and Italian. She married actor Peter Hermann on August 28, 2004, and they divide their time between New York and Los Angeles. They had their first child, August Miklos Friedrich Hermann, on June 28, 2006.
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