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Mariska Hargitay and Chris Meloni Renew Law & Order: SVU Deals
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EOnline.com - Found Jun. 30, 2009 After months of negotiations, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit stars Mariska Hargitay and Chris Meloni have renewed their contracts for two... Hargitay, Meloni Re-Up for 'SVU'; Lahti Joins Cast - Hollywood Hargitay, Meloni back for ?Law & Order: SVU? - MSNBC Hargitay, Meloni Signed for `Law & Order: SVU' - ABC News Hargitay and Meloni end contract disputes - Fox 23 New York Explore All |
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'Law & Order: SVU': Christine Lahti joins Chris Meloni, Mariska ...
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Orlando Sentinel - Found Jun. 30, 2009 Chris Meloni and Emmy-winner Mariska Hargitay will be back with the show when production starts next week on a new season. 'Law & Order' stars to return - Chicago Sun-Times Meloni, Hargitay reach deals to stay on 'SVU' - Chicago Tribune Hargitay & Meloni End Contract Disputes - IMDB Hargitay, Meloni re-up for SVU; Lahti joins cast - KNDO KNDU Explore All |
Mariska Hargitay & Christopher Meloni Returning To Law & Order: SVU
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Access Hollywood - Found Jun. 29, 2009 Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni are returning to for Season 11, Access Hollywood has confirmed. 'SVU': Chris and Mariska are staying! - Entertainment Weekly Online Hargitay, Meloni back for more Law & Order - People Ausiello: Christine Lahti joining 'SVU' - Entertainment Weekly Online Hargitay, Meloni returning to 'SVU' - Hollywood Reporter Explore All |
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Mariska Hargitay and Chris Meloni Renew Law & Order: SVU Deals
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E! Online Blogs - Watch With Kristin - Found Jun. 29, 2009 After months of negotiations, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit stars Mariska Hargitay and Chris Meloni have renewed their contracts for two... |
Mariska Hargitay & Chris Meloni Back on 'SVU'
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Entertainment Tonight: Topstories - Found Jun. 29, 2009 ET can confirm that Emmy Award-winning actress Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni have made a deal to return for the 11th season of "Law & ... |
Mariska Hargitay & Christopher Meloni Returning To 'Law & Order: ...
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NBC4.com - Found Jun. 29, 2009 Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni are returning to '' for Season 11, Access Hollywood has confirmed. |
Mariska Hargitay Reveals Details of On Set Injury
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ShoppingBlog.com - Found May. 19, 2009 Mariska Hargitay reveals the details behind her collapsed lung and subsequent hospitalization. It turns out that Mariska does all her own stunts ... |
Mariska Hargitay Reveals Reason for Collapsed Lung
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Entertainment Tonight: Topstories - Found May. 19, 2009 Mariska Hargitay reveals what caused her to be hospitalized earlier this year with a partially collapsed lung. |
Meloni 'SVU' return 'not purely financial'
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Digital Spy - Found Jul. 2, 2009 Earlier this year, Meloni and co-star Mariska Hargitay stalled on renewing their terms, but have both recently signed new deals to continue... |
Wentworth Miller to guest star in 'SVU'
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Digital Spy - Found Jul. 2, 2009 ... called Nate Kendal who rescues a rape victim but will only discuss the case with Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni). |
Mariska Hargitay Biography
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Mariska Hargitay
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| Mariska Hargitay | |
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| Born | Mariska Magdolna Hargitay January 23, 1964 Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
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| Other name(s) | Marishka Hargitay Mariska Hermann |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1983 – present |
| Spouse(s) | Peter Hermann (2004 – present) |
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Mariska Magdolna Hargitay (born January 23, 1964) is an American actress, best known for her role as Detective Olivia Benson on the television program Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Hargitay is a winner of a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award.
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Biography
Early life
Hargitay was born at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California, the daughter of Jayne Mansfield, an actress and 1950s-era sex symbol, and Hungarian-born former Mr. Universe Mickey Hargitay. Her first and middle names are Hungarian and refer to Mary Magdalene (Mariska is a diminutive of Maria). Her family name means "of Hargita". Hargitay has two half-sisters, Jayne Marie Mansfield and Tina Hargitay; two brothers, Miklós and Zoltán Hargitay; and a half-brother, Antonio Ottaviano (a.k.a. Tony Cimber), a former director whose works include the female wrestling show Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.
Hargitay's parents had divorced in May 1963, but a judge later found their Mexican divorce invalid. They had reconciled a few months before Mariska's birth in January 1964 but soon separated again; and in August 1964, the Mexican divorce was ruled legal. A few weeks later, Mansfield married the director Matt Cimber, who had directed her in a 1964 production of the William Inge play Bus Stop.
On June 29, 1967, Jayne Mansfield was killed in an automobile accident on a stretch of U.S. Highway 90 between New Orleans and Slidell, Louisiana. Her boyfriend, Sam Brody, and the driver were also killed. Asleep in the back of the vehicle, Mariska, then three-and-a-half years old, was left with a zig-zag scar on one side of her head. Her brothers Miklós and Zoltán were also in the car, but escaped with minor injuries. After the death of their mother, the three siblings were raised by their father and his third wife, Ellen Siano.
Hargitay was active in the theater program of her secondary school Marymount High School; and she attended UCLA School of Theater Film and Television (where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma)1 but left six months before graduating as she began her career.2
Career
In 1982, Hargitay was crowned Miss Beverly Hills USA,3 and was fourth runner up at the Miss California USA Pageant in Oxnard. She made her screen debut with a small role in Star 80. Within a few years she had landed recurring roles in the television series Downtown and Falcon Crest, in which she played the character Carly Fixx. She portrayed police officer Angela Garcia in the 1992 series Tequila & Bonetti, and appeared in an episode of the fourth season of Seinfeld. 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 Cynthia Hooper during the fourth season of ER.
Hargitay has appeared on numerous other television programs, including: Freddy's Nightmares, Ellen, All American Girl, Baywatch, Cracker, Gabriel's Fire, In the Heat of the Night, JoJo's Circus, The Single Guy, Wiseguy, and thirtysomething. Her voice is featured on the 2005 video game True Crime: New York City. Hargitay also had a minor role ("Hooker in Bar") in the 1995 film Leaving Las Vegas, and briefly replaced Gabrielle Fitzpatrick in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, although the footage was deemed unusable.
Since 1999, Hargitay has portrayed Det. Olivia Benson, the female lead in the drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. "As a woman, it’s gratifying to play such a multilayered part," she stated on her official website. "Olivia is not only a competent, street-smart cop, she’s also an empathetic woman who can respond emotionally to victims of terrible crimes without compromising her professionalism."4 As a result of her casting, Hargitay was acknowledged as the "highest paid TV actress" working today in the Guinness Book of World Records 2008 Edition.
Personal life
Hargitay is a polyglot and speaks Hungarian, French, Spanish and Italian as well as English.5 On August 28, 2004, in Santa Barbara, California, she married Peter Hermann, an actor and writer who has often appeared on SVU as Defense Attorney Trevor Langan.6 On June 28, 2006, Hargitay gave birth to August Miklos Friedrich Hermann, by caesarean section. During the last months of her pregnancy, she took maternity leave from SVU, and was temporarily replaced by Connie Nielsen. She appeared with her baby, August, in a Got Milk? ad in January 2007.7 Hargitay is also the Godmother of her "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit" co-star Christopher Meloni's daughter Sophia.891011
Upon winning her Emmy on August 27, 2006, Hargitay made a point of thanking her father for everything he had done for her in her life. Just 17 days later, on September 14, 2006, her father died from multiple myeloma in Los Angeles, California, aged 80.
In late December 2008, she suffered a partially collapsed lung after taking a fall during a stunt on the set of Law & Order. She underwent surgery in January and returned to work shortly after.12 On March 3, 2009, Hargitay was hospitalized after suffering chest pains related to the injury. It was disclosed that she would probably need more surgery.13 However, she will only miss one episode of season 10 of SVU.14
Philanthropy
Hargitay is founder and president of the Joyful Heart Foundation,15 an organization that was set up in 2004 to provide support to women who have been sexually assaulted.
Hargitay has also worked with the Mount Sinai Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention program; NBC's “The More You Know” campaign; Safe Horizon; Santa Monica Rape Crisis Treatment Center; Project ALS; Girl Scouts of the USA; and the James Redford Institute for Transplant Awareness. She has been an honorary board member of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation.16
Filmography
Awards and nominations
- 2004: Nominated, "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series" - Law & Order: SVU
- 2005: Nominated, "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series" - Law & Order: SVU
- 2006: Won, "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series" - Law & Order: SVU
- 2007: Nominated, "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series" - Law & Order: SVU
- 2008: Nominated, "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series" - Law & Order: SVU
- 2005: Won, "Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama" - Law & Order: SVU
- 2009: Nominated, "Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama" - Law & Order: SVU
- 2004: Won, "Individual Achievement for Best Female Lead - Drama - Series" - Law & Order: SVU
- 2004: Nominated, "Performance in a Drama Series Episode" - Law & Order: SVU
- 2007: Won, "Performance in a Drama Series Episode" - Law & Order: SVU
- 2009: Nominated, "Favorite Female TV Star"
- 2000: Nominated, "Best Performance by an Actress in a Series, Drama" - Law & Order: SVU
- 2004: Nominated, "Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series" - Law & Order: SVU
- 2006: Nominated, "Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series" - Law & Order: SVU
- 2007: Nominated, "Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series" - Law & Order: SVU
- 2009: Nominated, "Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series" - Law & Order: SVU
TV Guide Awards
- 2000: Nominated, "Favorite Actress in a New Series" - Law & Order: SVU
- 2007: Nominated, "Favorite Lady Gumshoe" - Law & Order: SVU
Viewers For Quality Television Awards
- 2000: Nominated, "Best Actress in a Quality Drama Series" - Law & Order: SVU
References
- ^ Kappa
- ^ Awards and Nominees from UCLA School of TFT
- ^ Carter, E. Graydon. People, Time, June 7, 1982. Accessed August 4, 2008.
- ^ Bio
- ^ Diaz, Johnny. Speaking volumes: Use of Spanish booms on network programs, The Boston Globe, November 13, 2005. Accessed August 3, 2008.
- ^ Peter Hermann at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ http://www.milknewsroom.com/ads.htm Retrieved 2007-10-18
- ^ TV.COM
- ^ Metacafe Video "The View"
- ^ Celebrity Wonder
- ^ Mariska-Hargitay.com
- ^ "Mariska Hargitay Says "Stunt" Led to Partially Collapsed Lung". TVGuide.com. http://www.tvguide.com/News/Mariska-Hargitay-Stunt-1006187.aspx. Retrieved on 2009-05-19.
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- ^ Dos Santos, Kristin; Megan Masters (2009-03-17). "Exclusive! SVU Boss: Mariska Hargitay Will Be Back This Season". E! Online - Watch with Kristin. http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b104565_svu_boss_mariska_hargitay_will_be_back.html&utm_campaign=xxltfp&utm_source=xjljqfejb&utm_medium=link. Retrieved on 2009-03-16.
- ^ The Joyful Heart Foundation
- ^ MMRF Honorary Board
External links
- Official website
- Joyful Heart Foundation, founded by Hargitay
- Mariska Hargitay at the Internet Movie Database
- Mariska Hargitay at TV.com
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| Preceded by Frances Conroy for Six Feet Under |
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Drama Series 2004 for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit |
Succeeded by Geena Davis for Commander in Chief |
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