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Mariska Hargitay is a Actor American born on 23 january 1964 at Santa Monica (USA)

Mariska Hargitay

Mariska Hargitay
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Birth name Mariska Magdolna Hargitay
Nationality USA
Birth 23 january 1964 at Santa Monica (USA)
Death 20 august 2023 (at 59 years)

Mariska Magdolna Hargitay (/məˈrɪʃkə ˈhɑrɡɨteɪ/ mə-RISH-kə HAR-gi-tay; born January 23, 1964) is an American actress, best known for her role as New York City sex crimes unit Detective/Sergeant/Lieutenant Olivia Benson on the NBC television drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a role that has earned her multiple awards and nominations, including an Emmy and Golden Globe.
The daughter of actress Jayne Mansfield and actor and bodybuilder Mickey Hargitay, Hargitay made her film debut in the 1985 horror-comedy film Ghoulies and her major television debut in the 1986 adventure drama series Downtown. She appeared in numerous roles in film and television shows throughout the late 1980s and 1990s before being cast as Olivia Benson, a role that led to her founding the Joyful Heart Foundation, which provides support to women who have been sexually abused.

Biography

Hargitay speaks five languages — English, Hungarian, French, Spanish, and Italian. This is a talent that she has displayed on the show several times, such as by mirandizing and interrogating suspects who do not speak English.

On August 28, 2004, in Santa Barbara, California, Hargitay married Peter Hermann, an actor whom she met on the set of Law & Order: SVU, on which he plays the recurring role of Defense Attorney Trevor Langon. On June 28, 2006, Hargitay gave birth to their son, August Miklos Friedrich Hermann, by an emergency caesarean section. In April 2011 she and her husband adopted Amaya Josephine and attended her birth. In October 2011, she and her husband adopted a baby boy, Andrew Nicolas Hargitay Hermann, who had been born in mid-2011.

Upon winning her Emmy on August 27, 2006, Hargitay made a point of thanking her father for everything he had done for her in her life. Just 17 days later, on September 14, 2006, her father died from multiple myeloma in Los Angeles, California, at age 80.


Health problems
In late December 2008, Hargitay suffered a partially collapsed lung after taking a fall during a stunt on the set of SVU. She underwent surgery in January and returned to work shortly afterward. On March 3, 2009, she was hospitalized after suffering chest pains related to the injury. It was disclosed that she would probably need more surgery. Despite this, she missed only one episode on SVU‍‍ '​‍s tenth season.

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Filmography of Mariska Hargitay (17 films)

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Actress

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy, 4h
Directed by Daniel Farrands
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Horror
Themes Films about films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Serial killer films, Documentary films about films
Actors Heather Langenkamp, Wes Craven, Robert Englund, Robert Shaye, Lisa Wilcox, John Saxon
Roles Self (archive footage)
Rating85% 4.2822954.2822954.2822954.2822954.282295
Depuis des décennies, Freddy Krueger s'est frayé un chemin à travers les rêves d'innombrables jeunes, effrayant plus d'un demi-milliard de dollars au box-office à travers huit films terrifiants et spectaculaires.
The Love Guru, 1h28
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Sports films, Ice hockey films, Sports d'hiver
Actors Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, Romany Malco, Meagan Good, Verne Troyer
Roles Herself (uncredited)
Rating38% 1.902361.902361.902361.902361.90236
The film begins in a little Indian village, where we are introduced to Guru Pitka talking into his recorder which allows him to sound like a man, a woman, or Morgan Freeman. He is the #2 Guru in the world, next to Deepak Chopra. A flashback shows us that Pitka is an orphan of missionaries in India. Both Pitka and Chopra were taught by Guru Tugginmypudha. Pitka says he wants to become a Guru so that girls will love him, so Tugginmypudha puts a chastity belt on him until he can learn that loving himself is more important than being loved by others.
Tales from Earthsea, 1h55
Directed by Gorō Miyazaki
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Feminist films, Films about magic and magicians, Films about dragons, Witches in film, Political films, Children's films
Actors Bunta Sugawara, Junichi Okada, Aoi Teshima, Yūko Tanaka, Teruyuki Kagawa, Jun Fubuki
Roles Tenar (English version) (voice)
Rating63% 3.152713.152713.152713.152713.15271
A war galley is caught in a storm at sea. The ship's weatherworker is distressed to realize he has lost the power to control the wind and waves, but is more so when he sees two dragons fighting above the clouds, during which one is killed by the other—an unprecedented and impossible occurrence.
Plain Truth, 1h35
Directed by Paul Shapiro
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Mariska Hargitay, Alison Pill, Jan Niklas, Kate Trotter, Jonathan LaPaglia, Colin Fox
Roles Ellie Harrison
Rating61% 3.0972953.0972953.0972953.0972953.097295
Katie (Alison Pill) is an 18-year-old girl who lives in a small Amish community in the Pennsylvania farm country. When a newborn baby is found dead, police suspect foul play, and Katie is accused of having given birth to the child, then taking its life. Katie protests her innocence on both charges, and Ellie Harrison (Mariska Hargitay), a tough and well-respected attorney, is brought in to defend her in court.
Perfume
Perfume (2001)
, 1h46
Directed by Hunter Carson, Michael Rymer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes La mode
Actors Estella Warren, Jeff Goldblum, Mariel Hemingway, Carmen Electra, Omar Epps, Peter Gallagher
Roles Darcy
Rating36% 1.827271.827271.827271.827271.82727
Prior to a major show, the people involved find themselves embroiled in their own personal battles.
Lake Placid, 1h22
Directed by Steve Miner
Origin Canada
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Action, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films, Giant monster films, Comedy horror films, Children's films, Disaster films
Actors Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Oliver Platt, Brendan Gleeson, Betty White, Meredith Salenger
Roles Myra Okubo
Rating58% 2.9006952.9006952.9006952.9006952.900695
In Aroostook County, Maine, marine Fish and Game officer Walt Lawson is attacked and bitten in half by something unseen in Black Lake. Sheriff Hank Keough (Brendan Gleeson), Fish and Game officer Jack Wells (Bill Pullman), American Museum of Natural History paleontologist Kelly Scott (Bridget Fonda), and mythology professor/crocodile enthusiast Hector Cyr (Oliver Platt) go to the lake to investigate.
Leaving Las Vegas, 1h51
Directed by Mike Figgis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about films, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Mise en scène d'un scénariste, Erotic thriller films
Actors Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands, Valeria Golino, Richard Lewis, Steven Weber
Roles Hooker At Bar
Rating74% 3.7486853.7486853.7486853.7486853.748685
Ben Sanderson (Cage) is a Hollywood screenwriter whose alcoholism costs him his job, family, and friends. With nothing left to live for, he moves to Las Vegas to drink himself to death. As he drives drunkenly down the Las Vegas Strip, he nearly hits a woman, Sera (Shue), on the crosswalk. Sera chastises him and walks away. Sera is a prostitute working for an abusive pimp, Yuri Butso (Julian Sands), a Latvian immigrant. Polish mobsters are after Yuri, so he breaks his relationship with Sera in fear that the Poles may hurt her. Yuri is murdered (off-screen) shortly afterwards.
Bank Robber, 1h31
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Actors Patrick Dempsey, Lisa Bonet, Judge Reinhold, Forest Whitaker, Olivia D'Abo, Mariska Hargitay
Roles Marisa Benoit
Rating44% 2.22242.22242.22242.22242.2224
Billy (Dempsey), is a well dressed bank robber who decides to do one last heist so he can sail off to a tropical island with his girlfriend, Selina (d'Abo). On his last robbery, he forgets to destroy a surveillance camera. He then must hide out in the Heartbreak Hotel until he can get out of trouble.
Blind Side
Blind Side (1993)
, 1h38
Directed by Geoff Murphy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Rebecca De Mornay, Rutger Hauer, Ron Silver, Jonathan Banks, Mariska Hargitay
Roles Melanie
Rating55% 2.7528252.7528252.7528252.7528252.752825
A married couple, Lynn and Doug Kaines (De Mornay and Silver), owners of an exotic furniture design company, visit Mexico, with Lynn in her first term of pregnancy. On their nighttime return trip, with her at the wheel, they accidentally run into and kill a Mexican police officer in the middle of the road. They make no report of the accident to avoid the perils of a Mexican jail, but slide the dead cop to the side of the road and return to the US. They have the front end damage to their car repaired clandestinely and appear to have gotten away with the killing.
The Perfect Weapon, 1h27
Directed by Mark DiSalle
Genres Drama, Martial arts, Action, Crime, Martial arts
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films
Actors Jeff Speakman, John Dye, Mako Iwamatsu, Dante Basco, Mariska Hargitay, James Hong
Roles Jennifer
Rating60% 3.001293.001293.001293.001293.00129
Jeff Sanders (Jeff Speakman) leads a double life: by day, he is a simple, unassuming construction worker, and by night, an expert Kenpo student and master of his craft.
Cobra
Cobra (1986)
, 1h26
Directed by Tony Scott, George Cosmatos
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Horror, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Serial killer films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Sylvester Stallone, Brigitte Nielsen, Reni Santoni, Andrew Robinson, Brian Thompson, Art LaFleur
Roles Jeune Otage (non crédité)
Rating58% 2.9028552.9028552.9028552.9028552.902855
An armed gunman causes a hostage situation at a Los Angeles grocery store. When negotiations between him and the law fail, Marion Cobretti (codenamed "Cobra"), a member of an elite division of the Los Angeles Police Department known as the "Zombie Squad", is summoned to the scene. Cobretti infiltrates the store, locates, and negotiates with him. During the negotiation, the criminal speaks of the unknown "New Order", a group of social darwinist radicals that despise modern society and believe in killing the weak, leaving only the strongest and smartest to rule the world. Cobretti then kills the gunman by throwing a knife at his abdomen and firing shots at him.
Welcome to 18, 1h31
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Mariska Hargitay, Courtney Thorne-Smith, JoAnn Willette, Mickey Jones, Brandis Kemp, John Putch
Roles Joey
Rating57% 2.8539152.8539152.8539152.8539152.853915
The film follows the adventures of three high school girls the summer after they graduate. After their jobs at a dude ranch fail to work out, the girls head to Lake Tahoe where they meet Talia (Cristen Kauffman). Talia's boyfriend Roscoe then helps the girls get a job at a casino which leads to trouble.
Jocks
Jocks (1986)
, 1h30
Directed by Steve Carver
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Sports films, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Tennis films
Actors Perry Lang, Mariska Hargitay, Richard Roundtree, R.G. Armstrong, Stoney Jackson, Stoney Jackson
Roles Nicole
Rating38% 1.926431.926431.926431.926431.92643
Coach Williams (Richard Roundtree) must get his tennis players into shape for the big play-offs in Las Vegas. The Kid (Scott Strader) and his buddies run wild in Vegas on and off the court as the coach tries to keep the players out of trouble before the match. Christopher Lee and R. G. Armstrong appear in character roles and Law & Order: SVU star Mariska Hargitay plays the role of the heroine, Nicole.