Mariska Hargitay Net Worth

#Fact1Auditioned for the role of "Jadzia Dax" of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993). The role was given to Terry Farrell.2She is a trained rape crisis counselor.3She received a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame next to her mother's star.4Mariska trained with Joanne Baron in the two-year Meisner program.5Aunt of Jianni Cimber (Tony's daughter), Brandon and Mickey Hargitay III.6She and Peter Hermann divide their time between New York and Los Angeles.7Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, right next to her mother Jayne Mansfield's star.8She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6328 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on November 8, 2013.9When Jayne Mansfield was three years old, her father, who was thirty-four years old, died of a heart attack, leaving her with a shattering void in her life. In a eerie coincidence, when Mariska was three years old, her mother, who was thirty-four years old, died in a car crash. Mariska would later say that "losing my mother at such an early age is the scar of my soul".10In 1992, she was engaged to a studio executive, Lance Young, but later broke off the engagement.11She can only remember two events from her life with her mother Jayne Mansfield, who died when Mariska was only three years old. One is when her mother served her breakfast, and the other is when she rubbed her head while they were in bed together.12Very close friends with Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) co-star Christopher Meloni.13Has a photograph of her mother, Jayne Mansfield, on her desk on the set of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999).14On October 19, 2011, she and her husband Peter Hermann adopted a baby boy and named him Andrew Nicolas Hargitay Hermann.15Was considered for the role of Annie Porter in Speed (1994), which went to Sandra Bullock.16She has played the same character (Detective Olivia Benson) on five different series: Law & Order (1990), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), Law & Order: Trial by Jury (2005), Chicago Fire (2012) and Chicago P.D. (2014).17(April 7, 2011) Mariska and Peter Hermann have adopted a baby girl and named her Amaya Josephine Hermann.18Friends with Angelique L'Amour, Jennifer Barker, Ina Garten and Joely Fisher.19Stepdaughter of Ellen Hargitay, a stewardess.20Good friends with actress Hilary Swank. Hilary stays with Mariska when on location in New York.21Her publicist is Gary Mantoosh.22(January 13, 2009) Has a partially collapsed lung, but condition is improving.23Godmother of her Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) co-star, Christopher Meloni's daughter Sophia.24One of People magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People in the World (2008).25Spoke in 2007 for Girl Scouts of Greater New York Scholars Program about her career and how she became who she is.26Following the family's acting lineage, Mariska has a cousin, actor Eddie Hargitay. Her father Mickey Hargitay is Eddie's godfather.27(September 14, 2006) Her father Mickey Hargitay died after a lengthy illness at age 80.28One of People magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People in the World (2006).29Gave birth, via C-section to her first child, a son, August Miklós Friedrich Hermann (10 lb., 9oz.), on June 28, 2006 at 3:21PM.30First woman ever from the Law and Order franchise to receive award nominations and wins.31(August 28, 2004) Married Peter Hermann at California's Unitarian Historical Chapel.32Former sister-in-law of Dana Hargitay, ex-wife of her brother Miklos.33Founder and president of a non-profit organization to aid the victims of rape - The Joyful Heart Foundation.34She learned to swim at the age of two and later swam for her high school.35One of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in the World (2005).36On one occasion, she came upon a pregnant woman who collapsed while in New York City. When no one else came to the woman's aid, she lapsed into her character on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) while aiding the victim.37Her father was Hungarian, while her American-born mother was of 7/8ths English and 1/8th German ancestry. Mariska's maternal grandparents were Vera J. Palmer and Herbert W. Palmer (Jayne Mansfield's parents).38Became good friends with Maria Bello when she had a recurring role on ER (1994) in 1997-1998.39Won the Miss Beverly Hills 1982 pagent.40Has a zig-zag scar down the side of her head from the 1967 crash that killed her mother, Jayne Mansfield. She was only three years old when she was involved in the crash and has no memory of the event.41Majored in theatre at the University of California, Los Angeles.42In June 1967, she and her two brothers were asleep in the back seat of a car when it smashed into the back of a trailer truck instantly killing her mother (Jayne Mansfield), the driver and Mansfield's boyfriend, attorney Sam Brody. Miraculously, the three children escaped with minor injuries.43Speaks English, French, Hungarian, Italian and Spanish.44Replaced Gabrielle Fitzpatrick in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (1995) as Dulcea, but her scenes were reshot with Gabrielle Fitzpatrick returning as Dulcea. In 2009, she said she was lucky enough to have a father who told her not to quit acting after that experience.45Daughter of Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay; younger sister of Zoltan Hargitay and Mickey Hargitay Jr., half-sister of Jayne Marie Mansfield (Jayne's daughter from her first marriage), Tony Cimber (from her mother's third marriage), and of Tina Hargitay (from her father's first marriage with Mary Birge, born 1949).

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