Mariska Hargitay

Mariska Hargitay earns my deepest professional respect for doing the hardest thing in television: staying. Playing Olivia Benson since 1999, the longest-running character in American primetime drama, could have calcified into routine, yet she kept finding new corners in the role, winning an Emmy and a Golden Globe along the way. What moves me is how the work bled into life, with her advocacy for survivors growing directly out of the stories she told on screen. Add directing and producing, and you have an artist who turned one role into a vocation. That kind of commitment is vanishingly rare, and I find it quietly heroic.

Name (English)

Mariska Hargitay

Name (Japanese)

マリシュカ・ハージティ

Reading

まりしゅか・はーじてぃ

Born

January 23, 1964 (age 62)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Dragon

Origin

Providence Saint John's Health Center, California, United States

Occupation

television actor / film actor / actor / film director

High school

Marymount High School

University

University of California, Los Angeles

Awards & achievements

• 2004 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama
• 2006 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/therealmariskahargitay/
• Xhttps://x.com/mariska
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3

Tags

• California
• television actor
• film actor
• actor

Last updated

2026-06-11

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