Mariska Hargitay Biography
Her Full name is-Mariska Magdolna Hargitay , She is an American actress, best known for her role as Detective Olivia Benson on the television program Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Hargitay is a winner of a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award
Her Birth date is -January 23, 1964.Hargitay was born at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California, the daughter of Jayne Mansfield, an actress and 1950s-era sex symbol, and Hungarian-born former Mr. Universe Mickey Hargitay. Her first and middle names are Hungarian and refer to Mary Magdalene (Mariska is a diminutive of Maria). Hargitay has two half-sisters, Jayne Marie Mansfield and Tina Hargitay; two brothers, Miklós and Zoltán Hargitay; and a half-brother, Antonio Ottaviano (a.k.a. Tony Cimber), a former director whose works include the female wrestling show Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.
On June 29, 1967, Jayne Mansfield was killed in an automobile accident on a stretch of U.S. Highway 90 between New Orleans and Slidell, Louisiana. Her boyfriend, Sam Brody, and the driver were also killed. Asleep in the back of the vehicle, Mariska, then three-and-a-half years old, was left with a zig-zag scar on one side of her head. Her brothers Miklós and Zoltán were also in the car, but escaped with minor injuries. After the death of their mother, the three siblings were raised by their father and his third wife, Ellen Siano.
Hargitay was active in the theater program of her secondary school Marymount High School; and she attended UCLA School of Theater Film and Television (where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma)but left six months before graduating as she began her career.
Since 1999, Hargitay has portrayed Det. Olivia Benson, the female lead in the drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. "As a woman, it’s gratifying to play such a multilayered part," she stated on her official website. "Olivia is not only a competent, street-smart cop, she’s also an empathetic woman who can respond emotionally to victims of terrible crimes without compromising her professionalism."As a result of her casting, Hargitay was acknowledged as the "highest paid TV actress" working today in the Guinness Book of World Records 2008 Edition. Hargitay is founder and president of the Joyful Heart Foundation,an organization that was set up in 2004 to provide support to women who have been sexually assaulted. Hargitay has also worked with the Mount Sinai Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention program; NBC's “The More You Know” campaign; Safe Horizon; Santa Monica Rape Crisis Treatment Center; Project ALS; Girl Scouts of the USA; and the James Redford Institute for Transplant Awareness. She has been an honorary board member of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation.
2006 Tales from Earthsea Tenar Voice Role
2008 The Love Guru Herself Cameo
2004 Plain Truth Ellie Harrison Lifetime Television TV-Movie
2005 Law & Order: Trial by Jury Det. Olivia Benson Episode: Day
1999–present Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Det. Olivia Benson
2006: Won, "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series" - Law & Order: SVU 2005: Won, "Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama" - Law & Order: SVU 2007: Won, "Performance in a Drama Series Episode" - Law & Order: SVU