Even before she was Olivia Benson, Mariska Hargitay was part of show business.
Hargitay’s Hollywood history includes her famously beautiful mother, Jayne Mansfield — tragically killed in a car crash that the Law & Order: SVU star survived — and her father, actor Mickey Hargitay, who died in 2006 at age 80. Mickey’s final acting role was three years before his death, and it was a co-star role on SVU with his daughter.
In her own love life, Hargitay found lasting love with fellow actor and frequent SVU co-star Peter Hermann. The pair started dating in 2002, wed in August 2004, and are still going strong. Her husband and their three children have been with her every step of her career.
Here, we look back over the years of Hargitay’s family life in photos.
Mariska (bottom right) is seen in this colorful family photo in the late 1960s as Mansfield celebrated her birthday on the set of the movie Single Room Furnished. The glamorous actress is holding her son Antonio, from her marriage with third husband Matt Cimber, the movie’s director, who is standing beside her. To her left is daughter Jayne Marie, from Mansfield’s marriage to her first husband, Paul Mansfield. The two boys in the group are Mariska’s brothers Miklos and Zoltan.
Mansfield with Mariska and her siblings
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Mickey Hargitay with Mansfield
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Mansfield with Mariska and her siblings. “My mother was this amazing, beautiful, glamorous sex symbol,” Mariska has said. “But people didn’t know that she played the violin and had a 160 IQ…. She was just so ahead of her time.”
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Mansfield also adored the color pink, as seen on her Beverly Hills home.
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Hargitay and Hermann welcomed their first child, son August, in June 2006. They shared August’s first photos with the world on the July 2006 cover of TV Guide Magazine.
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Hargitay’s family celebrated her receiving a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2013.
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Hargitay, Hermann and the kids cheered on the New York Knicks courtside at Madison Square Garden in 2018.
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Peter Hermann, son August, Hargitay, daughter Amaya and son Andrew, in 2023
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Hargitay took Amaya to the premiere of concert movie Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour in Los Angeles in October 2023.
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