Downtown was Hargitay's first television role. The series, which ran for just one season in 1986, saw Hargitay play Jesse ...

Mariska Hargitay might be known for her dramatic acting today — but at the beginning of her career, she was set on doing comedy. In a new interview with Amy Poehler on Good Hang, the Law & Order: ...

Mariska Hargitay knows star power when she sees it. The “Law & Order: SVU” actor stopped by Amy Poehler’s podcast, “Good Hang,” on Tuesday and recounted two fellow performers she came across who made ...

Mariska Hargitay attends the Critics Choice Documentary Awards on Nov. 9 in New York City. "I'm profoundly honored to be in this room and to be among so many incredible artists that have inspired me ...

For a good portion of Mariska Hargitay's life, strangers knew more about her mother than she did. So it's fitting that when Hargitay first appears onscreen in My Mom Jayne, her exquisite and gripping ...

Recently, ‘SVU’ star Mariska Hargitay’s documentary series about her late mother, Jayne Mansfield, won the award for Best First Documentary Feature at the Critics' Choice Documentary Awards.

Emmy Award-winning Law & Order: Special Victims Unit actor Mariska Hargitay was just 3 years old in 1967 when her movie star mother, Jayne Mansfield, died in a tragic car crash. Though she and her ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — Mariska Hargitay, known for her role as Olivia Benson in the NBC series “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit,” brought Woodstock Film Festival goers along on her journey of healing ...

The 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit' actress shares her children with Peter Hermann Kayla Grant is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2025. Her work has previously ...