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Yahoo – American web portal

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Yo – Smartphone app

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Yubo – French social networking app

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Kosoff, Maya (February 22, 2015). "2 dozen millennials explain why they're obsessed with Snapchat and how they use it". Business Insider. Axel Springer SE. Retrieved April 10, 2017.

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TITLE: Mariska_Hargitay
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Mariska Magdolna Hargitay (/məˈrɪʃkə ˈhɑːrɡɪteɪ/; born January 23, 1964) is an American actress, philanthropist, producer, and director. Hargitay has played Olivia Benson on NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit since 1999, which is the longest-running character in American primetime drama in history. Her accolades for the role include an Emmy and a Golden Globe. In 2013, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Hargitay was born in Santa Monica, California, and is a daughter of actress Jayne Mansfield. She attended Marymount High School in Los Angeles and enrolled in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, leaving before completing her degree to pursue acting. Her other credits include the series Falcon Crest and In the Heat of the Night (both 1988), Tequila and Bonetti (1992), Can't Hurry Love (1995–1996), and ER (1997–1998).

Outside of acting, Hargitay co-produced the HBO documentary I Am Evidence (2017), winning a News and Documentary Emmy for the project. In 2025, she launched the production company Mighty Entertainment, under which she directed the documentary My Mom Jayne. Hargitay founded the Joyful Heart Foundation, which provides support to people who have been sexually abused. She is a certified rape counselor and has engaged in initiatives to support domestic violence shelters and raise awareness about untested rape kits.

Early life

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Mariska Magdolna Hargitay was born at Providence Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California, to actress Jayne Mansfield. Her biological father was the Brazilian singer Nelson Sardelli, a fact Hargitay did not learn until she was in her twenties. She was conceived during her mother's marriage to Mickey Hargitay, so he was her legal father, and Mariska grew up believing he was her biological father as well. Her first and middle names are Hungarian and refer to Mary Magdalene (Mariska is a Hungarian diminutive of Mary). From the time her mother married Matt Cimber until her death in 1967 when Hargitay was put into the care of her father, she was known as "Maria" due to her stepfather's Italian heritage. She was raised Catholic. Jayne Mansfield had four other children: Jayne Marie Mansfield, Miklós "Mickey" Hargitay, Jr., Zoltán Hargitay, and Antonio "Tony" Cimber. She also has two half-sisters from her biological father, Giovanna Sardelli and Pietra Sardelli.

In 1962, troubles arose in Mansfield and Hargitay's marriage after Mansfield had an affair with Italian filmmaker Enrico Bomba. Mansfield and Hargitay divorced in May 1963, but a judge later found their Mexican divorce invalid. After Mansfield realized she was pregnant with Mariska, she and Hargitay reconciled in January 1964. However, they soon separated again. In August 1964, Hargitay's mother successfully petitioned the court to rule the Mexican divorce legal.

On June 29, 1967, Mariska, her mother, and Mansfield's boyfriend Sam Brody were in an automobile crash on a stretch of U.S. Route 90 between New Orleans and Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The accident ripped off the top of the car, instantly killing Mansfield, Brody, and the driver, Ronnie Harrison. Asleep in the back of the vehicle, three-and-a-half-year-old Mariska and her brothers, Miklós and Zoltán, escaped with minor injuries. The accident left Mariska with a zig-zag scar on her head.

After the death of their mother, Hargitay and her brothers were raised by her father, Mickey Hargitay, and his third wife, Ellen Siano. Hargitay long disliked comparisons with her famous mother, but has since embraced her mother and her legacy, describing a desire to "connect" with her mother as a person beyond her dumb blonde persona. Hargitay has said that the early loss of her mother left "a hole in my life that won't ever be filled. I will never get over it. I will always be a girl who lost her mom."

While a student at her Catholic secondary school, Marymount High School, Hargitay was active in cheerleading, student government, athletics, and the theater program. She enjoyed acting and enrolled at UCLA after graduation from high school in 1982. That same year, Hargitay was crowned Miss Beverly Hills USA. By the time she was a freshman in college, Hargitay had an agent and several small roles to her credit. She attended UCLA School of Theater Film and Television where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. She left before completing her degree. Hargitay attended Groundlings Theatre and School in Los Angeles.

In 2025, Hargitay publicly disclosed that her biological father was not Mickey Hargitay, but rather Nelson Sardelli, who had been involved with her mother Jayne Mansfield in 1963. Mansfield's publicist Raymond Strait had also claimed that Sardelli was her biological father in his 1992 Mansfield biography Here They Are, Jayne Mansfield. Hargitay revealed she learned the identity of her biological father in her 20s and met Sardelli for the first time at the age of 30.

Career

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Early work and roles

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After Hargitay was crowned Miss Beverly Hills USA, she competed in the Miss California USA pageant the following year and placed fourth runner-up to Julie Hayek, who was later crowned Miss USA. In 1984, Hargitay appeared in Ronnie Milsap's music video for "She Loves My Car", the first country music video to appear on MTV. A year later she had a small role in the horror film Ghoulies. Hargitay has appeared on numerous other television programs, including: Freddy's Nightmares – A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Series; Ellen; All-American Girl; Baywatch; Cracker; Gabriel's Fire; In the Heat of the Night; The Single Guy; Wiseguy; and thirtysomething. Her voice is featured on the 2005 video game True Crime: New York City.

Hargitay briefly replaced Gabrielle Fitzpatrick as Dulcea in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, although her scenes were cut from the film when Fitzpatrick recovered from her surgery and returned to the film. In 1988, she had a recurring role as Carly Fixx in the soap opera Falcon Crest. Hargitay played Jill Banner in the Japanese-American co-production Strawberry Road in 1991. She portrayed police officer Angela Garcia in the 1992 series Tequila and Bonetti and appeared in the two-part fourth season finale episode of Seinfeld, where they had her read for the role of Elaine Benes in "The Pilot". She was considered for the character of Elaine Benes on Seinfeld itself before it began. Two years later, Hargitay portrayed Didi Edelstein, the sexy next-door neighbor, in the 1995 sitcom Can't Hurry Love, which starred Nancy McKeon. In 1997, Hargitay played detective Nina Echeverria on the drama series Prince Street, and had a recurring role as inept desk clerk Cynthia Hooper during the fourth season of ER.

Hargitay said in 1986 that she never thought about doing television until a role on the one-hour adventure drama series Downtown was offered. In fact, she experienced difficulties in her efforts to begin a career as a Hollywood actor. Hargitay endured frequent comparisons to her mother.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

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Hargitay is best known for her portrayal of Olivia Benson on Law & Order: SVU. Benson is the longest-running character on the longest-running American primetime drama in history.

Casting for the lead characters of NBC police procedural television drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit occurred in the spring of 1999. Dick Wolf, along with officials from NBC and Studios USA, was at the final auditions for the two leads at Rockefeller Center. The last round had been narrowed down to six finalists. For the female lead – Detective Olivia Benson – Samantha Mathis, Reiko Aylesworth, and Hargitay were being considered. For the male lead – Detective Elliot Stabler – the finalists were Tim Matheson, John Slattery, and Christopher Meloni. Meloni and Hargitay had auditioned in the final round together, and after the actors left, there was a moment of dead silence, after which Wolf blurted out, "Oh well. There's no doubt who we should choose – Hargitay and Meloni." The duo, who Wolf believed had the perfect chemistry from the first time he saw them together, were his first choice. Garth Ancier, then head of NBC Entertainment, agreed, and the rest of the panel assembled voiced their assent.

Hargitay trained as a rape crisis advocate to prepare for the role of Benson. She has portrayed Benson since 1999. Hargitay won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for the role. She received UCLA's TFT Distinguished Alumni Award in 2011 and was honored at the school's June commencement ceremony. During the last months of her pregnancy in 2006, Hargitay took maternity leave from SVU, and was temporarily replaced by Connie Nielsen, who portrayed Stabler's temporary partner Dani Beck.

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 from chest pains related to the injury. She missed one episode on SVU's tenth season. In May 2009, after the show's tenth season, Hargitay and Meloni's contracts expired when they were reportedly making $375,000–$385,000 per episode. During negotiations in April for a new contract, the duo attempted to receive a percentage of the show's profits as other high-profile Law and Order actors had done in the past. It was rumored that NBC threatened to replace Hargitay and Meloni if they persisted in their demands. However, two months later it was officially reported that both their contracts had been renewed for two more years. When the thirteenth season was about to air, initial reports indicated that Hargitay would appear in only the first 13 episodes. However, NBC chairman Bob Greenblatt later clarified that she would be in every episode of the season.

As of August 2012, Hargitay was earning approximately $400,000–$500,000 per episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. In 2013, Hargitay was awarded with the 2,511th star of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Her star was placed next to the star of her mother, which is located at 6328 Hollywood Boulevard. In 2013 and 2014, she was ranked by Forbes as the second-highest-paid television actress, after only Sofía Vergara of Modern Family. In the following years, Hargitay continued to be considered one of the highest-paid television actresses in the world, making well over $500,000 per episode.

In July 2021, Hargitay suffered a broken ankle after taking a fall in the rain while leaving the screening of Black Widow. Her injury caused minor script changes and was written into the season 23 premiere of SVU. In 2025, Forbes named Hargitay as the 11th highest-paid actor of 2024, 2nd highest-paid actress after Nicole Kidman, and the highest-paid actor on television by a wide-margin, earning an estimated $750,000 per episode between acting, producing, and syndication profits from 26 seasons of SVU.

Other ventures

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In January 2007, she and her older son appeared in a Got Milk? advertisement. At the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, Hargitay won the "Video of the Year" Award, shared with Taylor Swift and all of the celebrities that appeared in the music video for Swift's song "Bad Blood".

Hargitay has produced a documentary, I Am Evidence. Released by HBO in 2018, the documentary discusses the thousands of untested rape kits in the United States. Hargitay called the reality of untested rape kits "the clearest and most shocking demonstration of how we regard these crimes in our country." The film received Best Documentary at the 40th News and Documentary Emmy Awards, winning Hargitay her second Emmy and first as a producer.

Hargitay was a guest narrator at Disney's Candlelight Processional on December 19 and 20, 2022. In 2025, Hargitay announced the launch of Mighty Entertainment, a production company with her feature film directorial debut My Mom Jayne, released in the United States in June 2025, which delves into the life and death of her mother Jayne Mansfield, as the first project. That same year, she served as an executive producer on Nuns vs. The Vatican directed by Lorena Luciano.

Other ventures

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Joyful Heart Foundation

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Yahoo – American web portal

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Yo – Smartphone app

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Yubo – French social networking app

References

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Further reading

=================

-

Kosoff, Maya (February 22, 2015). "2 dozen millennials explain why they're obsessed with Snapchat and how they use it". Business Insider. Axel Springer SE. Retrieved April 10, 2017.

External links

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-

Official website

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TITLE: Mariska_Hargitay

====================

Mariska Magdolna Hargitay (/məˈrɪʃkə ˈhɑːrɡɪteɪ/; born January 23, 1964) is an American actress, philanthropist, producer, and director. Hargitay has played Olivia Benson on NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit since 1999, which is the longest-running character in American primetime drama in history. Her accolades for the role include an Emmy and a Golden Globe. In 2013, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Hargitay was born in Santa Monica, California, and is a daughter of actress Jayne Mansfield. She attended Marymount High School in Los Angeles and enrolled in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, leaving before completing her degree to pursue acting. Her other credits include the series Falcon Crest and In the Heat of the Night (both 1988), Tequila and Bonetti (1992), Can't Hurry Love (1995–1996), and ER (1997–1998).

Outside of acting, Hargitay co-produced the HBO documentary I Am Evidence (2017), winning a News and Documentary Emmy for the project. In 2025, she launched the production company Mighty Entertainment, under which she directed the documentary My Mom Jayne. Hargitay founded the Joyful Heart Foundation, which provides support to people who have been sexually abused. She is a certified rape counselor and has engaged in initiatives to support domestic violence shelters and raise awareness about untested rape kits.

Early life

=================

Mariska Magdolna Hargitay was born at Providence Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California, to actress Jayne Mansfield. Her biological father was the Brazilian singer Nelson Sardelli, a fact Hargitay did not learn until she was in her twenties. She was conceived during her mother's marriage to Mickey Hargitay, so he was her legal father, and Mariska grew up believing he was her biological father as well. Her first and middle names are Hungarian and refer to Mary Magdalene (Mariska is a Hungarian diminutive of Mary). From the time her mother married Matt Cimber until her death in 1967 when Hargitay was put into the care of her father, she was known as "Maria" due to her stepfather's Italian heritage. She was raised Catholic. Jayne Mansfield had four other children: Jayne Marie Mansfield, Miklós "Mickey" Hargitay, Jr., Zoltán Hargitay, and Antonio "Tony" Cimber. She also has two half-sisters from her biological father, Giovanna Sardelli and Pietra Sardelli.

In 1962, troubles arose in Mansfield and Hargitay's marriage after Mansfield had an affair with Italian filmmaker Enrico Bomba. Mansfield and Hargitay divorced in May 1963, but a judge later found their Mexican divorce invalid. After Mansfield realized she was pregnant with Mariska, she and Hargitay reconciled in January 1964. However, they soon separated again. In August 1964, Hargitay's mother successfully petitioned the court to rule the Mexican divorce legal.

On June 29, 1967, Mariska, her mother, and Mansfield's boyfriend Sam Brody were in an automobile crash on a stretch of U.S. Route 90 between New Orleans and Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The accident ripped off the top of the car, instantly killing Mansfield, Brody, and the driver, Ronnie Harrison. Asleep in the back of the vehicle, three-and-a-half-year-old Mariska and her brothers, Miklós and Zoltán, escaped with minor injuries. The accident left Mariska with a zig-zag scar on her head.

After the death of their mother, Hargitay and her brothers were raised by her father, Mickey Hargitay, and his third wife, Ellen Siano. Hargitay long disliked comparisons with her famous mother, but has since embraced her mother and her legacy, describing a desire to "connect" with her mother as a person beyond her dumb blonde persona. Hargitay has said that the early loss of her mother left "a hole in my life that won't ever be filled. I will never get over it. I will always be a girl who lost her mom."

While a student at her Catholic secondary school, Marymount High School, Hargitay was active in cheerleading, student government, athletics, and the theater program. She enjoyed acting and enrolled at UCLA after graduation from high school in 1982. That same year, Hargitay was crowned Miss Beverly Hills USA. By the time she was a freshman in college, Hargitay had an agent and several small roles to her credit. She attended UCLA School of Theater Film and Television where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. She left before completing her degree. Hargitay attended Groundlings Theatre and School in Los Angeles.

In 2025, Hargitay publicly disclosed that her biological father was not Mickey Hargitay, but rather Nelson Sardelli, who had been involved with her mother Jayne Mansfield in 1963. Mansfield's publicist Raymond Strait had also claimed that Sardelli was her biological father in his 1992 Mansfield biography Here They Are, Jayne Mansfield. Hargitay revealed she learned the identity of her biological father in her 20s and met Sardelli for the first time at the age of 30.

Career

=================

Early work and roles

=================

After Hargitay was crowned Miss Beverly Hills USA, she competed in the Miss California USA pageant the following year and placed fourth runner-up to Julie Hayek, who was later crowned Miss USA. In 1984, Hargitay appeared in Ronnie Milsap's music video for "She Loves My Car", the first country music video to appear on MTV. A year later she had a small role in the horror film Ghoulies. Hargitay has appeared on numerous other television programs, including: Freddy's Nightmares – A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Series; Ellen; All-American Girl; Baywatch; Cracker; Gabriel's Fire; In the Heat of the Night; The Single Guy; Wiseguy; and thirtysomething. Her voice is featured on the 2005 video game True Crime: New York City.

Hargitay briefly replaced Gabrielle Fitzpatrick as Dulcea in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, although her scenes were cut from the film when Fitzpatrick recovered from her surgery and returned to the film. In 1988, she had a recurring role as Carly Fixx in the soap opera Falcon Crest. Hargitay played Jill Banner in the Japanese-American co-production Strawberry Road in 1991. She portrayed police officer Angela Garcia in the 1992 series Tequila and Bonetti and appeared in the two-part fourth season finale episode of Seinfeld, where they had her read for the role of Elaine Benes in "The Pilot". She was considered for the character of Elaine Benes on Seinfeld itself before it began. Two years later, Hargitay portrayed Didi Edelstein, the sexy next-door neighbor, in the 1995 sitcom Can't Hurry Love, which starred Nancy McKeon. In 1997, Hargitay played detective Nina Echeverria on the drama series Prince Street, and had a recurring role as inept desk clerk Cynthia Hooper during the fourth season of ER.

Hargitay said in 1986 that she never thought about doing television until a role on the one-hour adventure drama series Downtown was offered. In fact, she experienced difficulties in her efforts to begin a career as a Hollywood actor. Hargitay endured frequent comparisons to her mother.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

=================

Hargitay is best known for her portrayal of Olivia Benson on Law & Order: SVU. Benson is the longest-running character on the longest-running American primetime drama in history.

Casting for the lead characters of NBC police procedural television drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit occurred in the spring of 1999. Dick Wolf, along with officials from NBC and Studios USA, was at the final auditions for the two leads at Rockefeller Center. The last round had been narrowed down to six finalists. For the female lead – Detective Olivia Benson – Samantha Mathis, Reiko Aylesworth, and Hargitay were being considered. For the male lead – Detective Elliot Stabler – the finalists were Tim Matheson, John Slattery, and Christopher Meloni. Meloni and Hargitay had auditioned in the final round together, and after the actors left, there was a moment of dead silence, after which Wolf blurted out, "Oh well. There's no doubt who we should choose – Hargitay and Meloni." The duo, who Wolf believed had the perfect chemistry from the first time he saw them together, were his first choice. Garth Ancier, then head of NBC Entertainment, agreed, and the rest of the panel assembled voiced their assent.

Hargitay trained as a rape crisis advocate to prepare for the role of Benson. She has portrayed Benson since 1999. Hargitay won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for the role. She received UCLA's TFT Distinguished Alumni Award in 2011 and was honored at the school's June commencement ceremony. During the last months of her pregnancy in 2006, Hargitay took maternity leave from SVU, and was temporarily replaced by Connie Nielsen, who portrayed Stabler's temporary partner Dani Beck.

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 from chest pains related to the injury. She missed one episode on SVU's tenth season. In May 2009, after the show's tenth season, Hargitay and Meloni's contracts expired when they were reportedly making $375,000–$385,000 per episode. During negotiations in April for a new contract, the duo attempted to receive a percentage of the show's profits as other high-profile Law and Order actors had done in the past. It was rumored that NBC threatened to replace Hargitay and Meloni if they persisted in their demands. However, two months later it was officially reported that both their contracts had been renewed for two more years. When the thirteenth season was about to air, initial reports indicated that Hargitay would appear in only the first 13 episodes. However, NBC chairman Bob Greenblatt later clarified that she would be in every episode of the season.

As of August 2012, Hargitay was earning approximately $400,000–$500,000 per episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. In 2013, Hargitay was awarded with the 2,511th star of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Her star was placed next to the star of her mother, which is located at 6328 Hollywood Boulevard. In 2013 and 2014, she was ranked by Forbes as the second-highest-paid television actress, after only Sofía Vergara of Modern Family. In the following years, Hargitay continued to be considered one of the highest-paid television actresses in the world, making well over $500,000 per episode.

In July 2021, Hargitay suffered a broken ankle after taking a fall in the rain while leaving the screening of Black Widow. Her injury caused minor script changes and was written into the season 23 premiere of SVU. In 2025, Forbes named Hargitay as the 11th highest-paid actor of 2024, 2nd highest-paid actress after Nicole Kidman, and the highest-paid actor on television by a wide-margin, earning an estimated $750,000 per episode between acting, producing, and syndication profits from 26 seasons of SVU.

Other ventures

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In January 2007, she and her older son appeared in a Got Milk? advertisement. At the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, Hargitay won the "Video of the Year" Award, shared with Taylor Swift and all of the celebrities that appeared in the music video for Swift's song "Bad Blood".

Hargitay has produced a documentary, I Am Evidence. Released by HBO in 2018, the documentary discusses the thousands of untested rape kits in the United States. Hargitay called the reality of untested rape kits "the clearest and most shocking demonstration of how we regard these crimes in our country." The film received Best Documentary at the 40th News and Documentary Emmy Awards, winning Hargitay her second Emmy and first as a producer.

Hargitay was a guest narrator at Disney's Candlelight Processional on December 19 and 20, 2022. In 2025, Hargitay announced the launch of Mighty Entertainment, a production company with her feature film directorial debut My Mom Jayne, released in the United States in June 2025, which delves into the life and death of her mother Jayne Mansfield, as the first project. That same year, she served as an executive producer on Nuns vs. The Vatican directed by Lorena Luciano.

Other ventures

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Joyful Heart Foundation

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