Mariska Hargitay revealed the identity of his biological father after having “experienced a lie” for 30 years.
THE Law and order: Unit of special victims Star, 61, confirmed to Vanity In an interview published on Saturday, May 17, that her biological father is an Italian singer and actress Nelson Sardelli – not bodybuilder and actor, Mickey HargitayAs she had always been led to believe.
Mariska’s new documentary My mom Jayne explores the tragic consequences of a car accident in June 1967 who killed his mother, actress Jayne Mansfieldand seriously injured the future Law and order Star at the age of 3.
Among the revelations of the film is that before the birth of Mariska, her mother separated from the time of the time, Mickey – with whom she had two other children – and had a brief affair with Nelson, 90 years old. Jayne quickly broke things with the singer and returned to Mickey before Mariska’s birth. (Jayne had a eldest daughter, Jayne Marie, born in 1950, with the first husband Paul Mansfield as well as a son, Tony, born in 1965, with the third husband Matt Cimber After his 1964 divorce from Mickey.)
Mickey raised Mariska with his two brothers and sisters – Mickey Jr., born in 1958, and Zoltán, born in 1960 – and it was only when she saw a photo of Nelson in her twenties that she made the truth.
“It was as if the ground had fallen under me,” she said My mom Jayne. “As my infrastructure has dissolved.”
Mariska reminded Mickey angry with the insistence that he was his biological father in their one and only conversation on the subject. Mickey died at the age of 80 in 2006.
Mariska Hargitay and Mickey Hargitay SR. in 2005
Steve Granitz / WireimageThe actress finally met Nelson for the first time when she was 30 years old. Although Nelson told him that he “was waiting for 30 years for this moment”, Mariska remembers that “Olivia Benson on him”. (She played the NYPD detective in hard Nypd Olivia Benson Law and order: Unit of special victims Since 1999.)
“I said to myself:” I don’t want anything, I don’t need anything about you … I have a father “”, said Mariska. “There was something about loyalty. I wanted to be faithful to Mickey. “
However, Mariska finally repaired fences with Nelson and his family. She said that she finally came to the conclusion that she “grew up where [she] was supposed to do so.
“I know everyone has made the best choice for me,” she added. “I am the daughter of Mickey Hargitay – it’s not a lie. “”
Mariska Hargitay should thank the law and order: special unit of victims for more decades of work. The successful drama NBC also presented her husband Peter Hermann. The couple, who made the knot in August 2004, began their lasting relationship after their invited appearance in 2002. Hermann continued his role as Trevor Langan in Hargitay […]
In November 2024, Mariska opened its doors during the 18th annual seminar of the annual lunch of the depression of depression of the depression of what it was to grow “in a house of people dealing with the tragedy in their own way” after the death of Jayne.
“Because there was so much sorrow, there was no room not to prioritize anyone,” she said. “We did not have the tools we now have to metabolize and understand trauma.”
Mariska and husband Peter Hermann have been married since 2004 and share three children – August Miklos Friedrich, born in 2006, Amaya Josephine Hermann, born in 2011, and Andrew Nicolas Hermann, born in 2011.
My mom Jayne marks the beginnings of Mariska as a documentary director. The emotional film was created on Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival, where it is in the running for the Golden Eye (which translates to French in English by “The Golden Eye, The Documentary Prize”.).
My mom Jayne At her first television on HBO on June 27.
